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Ship Notes · SN #05·25 Jan
Speed without chaos
Moving fast and staying stable aren't opposites — with the right habits they reinforce each other. Two notes on how.
1. Small branches, merged daily
Long-lived branches drift and turn merges into archaeology. Keep changes small, merge to main daily, and hide unfinished work behind a flag. The codebase stays shippable every hour of every day.
2. A pipeline that fails fast
If CI takes thirty minutes, people stop trusting it. Put the quick checks first — lint, types, unit tests — so a broken build fails in two minutes, not twenty. Fast feedback is what keeps a team moving.
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