#tooling

Tooling

The instruments of the trade — editors, pipelines, build systems — and when they should disappear.

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We rebuilt our pipeline on tools nobody tweets about. Deploys got faster and the on-call channel went quiet.

The day we deleted every hardcoded hex value was the day dark mode became a data change instead of a rewrite.

The highest compliment for a tool is that nobody remembers using it. On interfaces that get out of the way.