Writing on software design, product design, and more.

All of my long-form thoughts on programming, system design, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.

Stacked Pull Requests: The end of rebase hell

GitHub just launched Stacked Pull Requests. For years, shipping a large feature meant choosing between one giant PR nobody wants to review, or a chain of small dependent PRs that drown you in rebases. Stacks give you the small PRs without the manual branch juggling, because GitHub now understands your PRs are connected.

Do you seriously need React Frameworks ?

When we released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an article on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I see articles on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.