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notes from
the craft.
short pieces on hosting, the web, and the work. some began life as linkedin posts; all of them are the opinions i stand behind.
what eight years teaches you
eight-plus years in, the stack has turned over more than once. php into frameworks into go services into whatever comes next. the tools were never the point.
what lasts: reading code written by people who left. writing code for people who have not arrived yet. knowing that the boring solution, shipped on time, beats the clever one that ships never.
senior is not a bigger toolbox. it is a shorter list of things you still get wrong, and the patience to fix them properly.
when the community needs engineers
on mobilization-era armenia, and what people who build the web can do when it matters.
hosting, honestly
vps, shared plans, and the questions worth asking before you rent a server.
ssd, and the word unlimited
two words sell more hosting than any benchmark. one of them means something.