A short list of useful Make targets

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when you go over.

The fastest debugging trick I've learned is to write out, in one sentence, what the system is supposed to be doing. Half the time I notice the bug while writing the sentence.

If a config file has more than a dozen options, half of them aren't being used. The other half are being used in ways the original author didn't predict.