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Developer experience, design patterns and architecture that hold up in production.

  1. An ADR is only as good as what actually reads itA decision record that only lives as prose is something an agent has to be told to go open. The ones that survive are the ones also wired into a table, a script, or a test the agent's normal workflow already touches.Development4 min
  2. 47 ADRs on one plugin in six weeks, what amend-in-place bought usA decision log is valuable because it preserves disagreement with your past self, illustrated by ADRs that reversed their own measured evidence in place.Development5 min
  3. A green pipeline is not evidenceTwo load-bearing CI gates ran green for months without comparing anything, because the base image had no git and nobody noticed the difference between passing and not running.Development4 min
  4. Static exports do not forgiveFour ways a Next.js static export broke during a rebuild, and what each one was actually telling me.Development3 min