04Notes

Engineering
journal.

Short writing on architecture, shipping, and the small decisions that compound over the life of a system. Written for engineers.

Designing APIs you won't hate in two years

The design choices that separate an API you enjoy maintaining from one you dread. Written from real regret.

What actually moved the needle after we stopped pretending to be a startup and started acting like a product team.

A pragmatic checklist for React Native and Flutter teams shipping to real users.

A short taxonomy of what containers solve, what they don't, and how I structure Dockerfiles for teams.

Structured output, deterministic fallbacks, and eval loops. The rest is decoration.

Three years of notes on leading 4–8 person product teams: rituals that scaled, rituals that didn't.