What shipped
A page a teammate can use, including loading, empty, and failure.
Northstar
Software engineer · 2024
Northstar
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- Role
- Software engineer
- Year
- 2024
- Technologies
- TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL
How it is built.
Northstar keeps the screen and the service in one story. The stack is TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL. The hard part was showing a failure without hiding the next step, and shipping that in a small release.
The work, up close.
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Relay
A job runner that retries a failure and keeps the error on screen.
What changed.
What a teammate could use, and the limit I kept on purpose.
Tradeoff
Fewer features, so the ones that shipped stay understandable.