Why I stopped optimising my system and started shipping badly

Three years of tuning notes and reviews taught me less than two months of publishing things I wasn't ready to publish.

Body text runs at a measure near seventy characters a line — comfortable to read without a paragraph turning into a wall.

Subheads break the piece into stages, so someone skimming can still follow the shape of the argument.

A subhead

Code, quotes and images sit inside this same column so the page keeps a single left edge.

$ git log --oneline | wc -l
# 340 commits, 4 of them shipped

The quote comes after the code here — on purpose, to prove blocks can appear in any order the writing actually needs.

The system was never the bottleneck. I was.