01 Masthead

TouseefZahid

Entrepreneur & Lead Developer RYK, PK

02 Currently

Currently

Now — Web software at Growth Nexus

Reading — Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Since — 2019

03 Selected work

Selected work.

A focused, monochrome workspace — desk, screen and keyboard
Fast, hand-built web work

04 How I work

How I work.

I start from the constraint, not the feature. What does this page have to do, on the slowest device that will open it, and what is the least it can ship to do that well?

From there the work is subtraction. I remove code until the thing is as small and as plain as it can be while still being clear to the next person who opens the file.

I would rather ship something quiet that holds up than something loud that needs a rewrite in a year. Most of the best work is invisible: the request that never fires, the script that was never shipped.

“The best part of the page is often the part I left out.”
  • i

    Measure first

    I profile before I optimise. A guess about performance is usually wrong, and usually expensive.

  • ii

    Fewer tools

    I reach for what I already know well. A new dependency earns its place or it does not ship.

  • iii

    Leave it better

    I write for whoever reads the code next. Often that person is me, six months on.

05 The Ledger

The ledger.

06 Get in touch

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