// writing.log
Notes on distributed systems, developer tooling, and building in public. Updated whenever I have something worth saying.
After three years of "it's just JavaScript with types," I finally committed fully to TypeScript across every project. Here's the specific moment that changed my mind — and why I think the friction is worth it.
Blue-green deployments sound great in theory. In practice, most tutorials skip the hard parts: database migrations, long-running jobs, and cache invalidation. Here's the full workflow I've refined over two years.
I started tweeting about Meridian when it had 12 stars on GitHub. Six months later it has 847. The lessons weren't about marketing — they were about accountability, feedback loops, and why "done" beats "perfect."
