On Software Engineering

Reducer composition is still the core Redux idea, even though modern Redux code usually starts with Redux Toolkit, configureStore, and createSlice.

A practical guide to application configuration: keep deploy-specific values out of code, parse and validate configuration at startup, make precedence explicit, and treat secrets as secrets.

SSI can still be a useful server-side composition seam for legacy migrations, but today it should be treated as a narrow tool with clear boundaries, fallbacks, observability, and trusted upstreams.

A practical browser-side event architecture: publish domain facts with EventTarget and CustomEvent, keep listeners independent, and know when an event bus is the wrong abstraction.

An archive note on using a post-merge Git hook to remind a team about database migrations, with a warning about its fragile shell logic.

A small, current Git setup: identity, default branch name, editor, credential helper, and a few aliases that make day-to-day work less noisy.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live — John F. Woods.