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Complete Architectural Sovereignty

An argument for owning more of your software, knowing when not to, and reconsidering some of the assumptions we've inherited from modern dependency culture.

October 26, 2026 · 17 min read

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I Replaced ESLint. The First Attempt Worked. I Threw It Away.

Removing dependencies was easy compared with deciding how much of their code I actually wanted to own.

October 23, 2026 · 6 min read

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Hyperfrontend: The Long Way Around

The code is nine months old. The ideas behind it took ten years, and every package exists because something else needed it first.

September 15, 2026 · 26 min read

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I Replaced Jest With 1,200 Lines of Code. I'd Do It Again.

Moving 11,900 tests from Jest onto node:test removed 457 packages from the lockfile, found product bugs the old runner had hidden, and changed how I think about what code reuse costs.

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read

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HyperFrontend vs. Module Federation: Two Very Different Answers to the Same Microfrontend Problem

Both let teams ship independently and compose at runtime. The resemblance mostly ends there.

August 24, 2026 · 9 min read

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Microfrontends from First Principles

An argument from first principles: start with one iframe, press on it until it breaks, and name the five boundaries — origin, trust, contract, lifecycle, and capability — that turn containment into cooperation.

July 22, 2026 · 39 min read