I usually start by questioning the problem statement—what's actually being asked, and what assumptions are baked in. The work I've found most interesting tends to involve hard constraints: data that can't go missing, timing that matters, failures that need to be visible.

When I have the choice, I've generally traded flexibility for simplicity. I try to write down invariants, failure modes, and a shared vocabulary early, then let the code enforce them—the goal being something that holds up when the tools and people around it change.

This site is where I think through problems I've run into, plus a small index of things I've shipped.