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Petros Stergioulas / personal archive

v04· last updated 2026·04·24· maintained, mostly

This is a small, deliberately quiet record of one engineer's working life.

Notes, projects, dates, and a few links worth keeping. It will not market me, rebrand me, or tell you a story about my potential. It will tell you what I have read, written, shipped, and decided — and when. If that is useful to you, the index below is the whole site.

I · Now

Where my attention is.

Working on platform observability and the small craft of API design. Slowly re-reading A Pattern Language. Walking more. Saying yes to fewer meetings.

Updated . The next update will probably contradict this one in a small but interesting way.

II · Writing

Index of notes, in order.

  1. 2026·04·24 On second-best decisions essay · 7 min
  2. 2026·04·17 Three signals are usually enough note · 5 min
  3. 2026·04·09 A week on the wrong abstraction diary · 6 min
  4. 2026·03·28 Reading Alexander, slowly book · 8 min
  5. 2026·02·11 Why I keep redrawing the same diagram essay · 9 min
  6. 2025·12·20 The runbook that nobody reads note · 4 min
  7. 2025·11·02 Boring contracts essay · 6 min

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III · Projects

Records, not promotions.

  1. 2024 — present

    Quiet observability at $work

    Replaced a noisy dashboard culture with three signals and a runbook. Pages dropped 64%. Held.

    platform · ongoing
  2. 2023

    Versioning policy for an internal API

    A small set of rules a team could keep agreeing with through a reorganization. The clearest writing was the most contested PR.

    api · shipped
  3. 2022

    A tiny eval harness

    Made an opinionated team agree on what "better" meant for two months. Then we forgot, and that was fine.

    internal · retired
  4. 2026 — open

    Field notebook for engineers

    Why this site exists. A small public archive of work, decisions, and the loops worth keeping.

    draft · open

IV · Reading

Books I'd loan.

  1. 2026 A Pattern Language — Christopher Alexander re-reading
  2. 2025 Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang finished
  3. 2024 Programming as Theory Building — Peter Naur finished · cited
  4. 2023 The Mythical Man-Month — Brooks finished

V · Colophon & contact

How this is kept.

Built with
Astro 6, Tailwind 4, Inter, JetBrains Mono.
Hosted
Static site, fast on purpose.
Edited by
Petros Stergioulas, in Athens.
Email
hello@stergioulas.com
Profile
linkedin.com/in/petrostergioulas
Source
Quiet. Available on request.