I've been writing here sporadically for more than 10 years at this point, at ~1 post a year. The more recent posts took months to write, and tend to cover things I find myself repeating frequently while working with other engineers.
- https://explog.in/notes/elephants/index.html: Tips for ramping up on large projects
- https://explog.in/notes/devtools/index.html: Building developer tools
Planning to overhaul it later this year.
(As an aside I kind of disagree with the common quote of:
> "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious"
I find that most software I've worked on is muddy, confusing, and contradictory. Perhaps I will get better with time.)
Heh, definitely depends on the software itself but I generally find the contents /schema of tables used to save the data very illuminating: you can see the UX, whatever form it takes -- and then what is saved to the backend so it makes things slightly more understandable for me.