https://blog.doubleshot.tech/ Long-form notes on systems, craft, and typography from the doubleshot.tech workshop. en https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-unified-toolchain-bet https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-unified-toolchain-bet Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vite+ rolls runtime, package manager, dev server, build, test, lint, format, and monorepo orchestration into a single binary. The interesting question is not whether the consolidation works — it's what you give up by taking the bet. tooling architecture craft https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/seed-zero https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/seed-zero Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short explainer — what blog.doubleshot.tech is, who it's for, and why it's anonymous. No mission statement, just a bearing. meta https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/notes-on-cache-invalidation https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/notes-on-cache-invalidation Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Phil Karlton's line about cache invalidation is funny because it's true — and useful because the failure modes repeat. A tour of TTL, generational keys, and explicit purge. caching architecture https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/reading-rooms https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/reading-rooms Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short argument for narrower columns, longer measures, and a fewer-features-not-more approach to long-form reading on the web. typography reading craft https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-cost-of-a-rebuild https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-cost-of-a-rebuild Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Some codebases deserve a rewrite. Most don't. A practical framework for which ones are which, and what to do with the rest. architecture engineering-management https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/small-tools-long-lived https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/small-tools-long-lived Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A case for shrinking tools rather than growing them, and the five disciplines that make a codebase still legible five years from now. craft engineering-management https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/against-dashboards https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/against-dashboards Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dashboards are the last place data goes to die. A sharper case for narratives, alerts, and sparse one-page views. analytics craft https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/on-footnotes https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/on-footnotes Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The comeback of footnotes in web writing — why they're clearer than hyperlinks, how to style them, and what to do when they pile up. typography craft writing https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-second-draft https://blog.doubleshot.tech/article/the-second-draft Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short note on the difference between a first draft and a second, and why almost all the value of editing lives between them. writing craft