Kevin Mahoney

AI Review Loops Don’t Always Stabilise It’s tempting to think that having AI review code and then implement fixes in a loop will create a flawless diamond at the end of the process.

Focustro: Development Notes for a Replicating React Application Contents: “Offline-first” The Application Summary Synchronising Data React State Management NixOS Deployment “Offline-first” There is a an approach to application development sometimes called…

Files That Change Together Should Stick Together I find it is easier to navigate, understand, and edit a codebase when the files that are edited together are closer together in the file system hierarchy.

Effective Checklists ☑ Checklists are useless if people ignore them, so decrease the mental burden of your checks as much as possible. ☑ Keep the list as short and focused as possible. ☑ Keep only the most important checks. ☑ Each check should be applicab…

Alerts, Checklists, and Lazy Thinking Developers can be lazy thinkers.

Accidental Waterfall Accidental Waterfall A decision that has unacknowledged organisational or political barriers hindering its reevaluation.

The State-Diff Pattern My Googling couldn’t discover an existing name for this pattern, so I have taken the liberty of naming it myself.

Applying “Make Invalid States Unrepresentable” Here are some real life cases of applying one of my favourite principles.

My Principles for Building Software These are my personal principles for building software.

The High Cost of Splitting Related Data Consider the following simple architecture: The tables in the database are related.

Your Database as an API Many developers have encountered databases with hundreds of poorly named tables which themselves have poorly named fields and haphazardly specified relationships.

Sense and Availability I often hear the claim that services improve availability.

A Few Django ORM Mistakes See if you can figure out what's wrong with the code snippets below!

Consistency is Consistently Undervalued Micro-services and non-ACID databases have been trendy over the last few years due mainly to their success at large companies like Google.