Yak Shaving

You sat down to add one endpoint and you are now upgrading a build tool. Every step was a correct call. Here is why a chain of good engineering decisions ends miles from the goal, and how to put an edge on it before it takes the day.

You were at the desk from eight until seven and you cannot name what shipped. Here is what chronic context switching actually looks like, why the cost of every switch stays off the books, and how to get one unbroken block back.