On the craft of building software and automating real work: APIs, webhooks and judgement for hiring a freelancer. Less hype, more decisions that survive daily use.
Craft and automationGuide
Automate the frequent, painful, and stable first: a prioritization matrix, the event-process-confirmation pattern, robustness through idempotent retries, and when to stay manual.
Craft and automationGuide
Seven questions for hiring well: scope, code ownership, maintenance, communication, testing, change handling and a fallback plan, with their warning signs.