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Why even care about code structure

As long as it works, right?

The anatomy of a React Island

A coworker asked how React Islands work and I realized it's a technique I've been using to modernize monolithic web codebases for years, but never wrote down how it works.

Finding modules in a big ball of mud

Pulling modules out of a big ball of mud is like grabbing a slice of cheesy pizza. It's kinda separate but also not really.

Why you need observability more than tests

Here's a short and sweet story about a Friday deploy. I love Friday deploys.

Big Ball of Mud 鈥撀爐he world's most popular software architecture

Forget Gang of Four, here are the 7 architectural patterns real programmers use:

Why software only moves forward

At scale there are no rollbacks and no cut-overs. Your software only moves forward.