joegarcia.devSAPA Executor: From Phase Briefs to Shipped CodeA few days ago I wrote about SAPA, which is basically a way to figure out how much planning you actually need before you start building something. The idea was to stop over-documenting throwaway projects and under-documenting the ones that matter. It...Jan 26·6 min read
joegarcia.devI Built a Framework for Getting Ideas Out of My Head and Into CodeI have a problem. I get ideas faster than I can build them. Some of these ideas are genuinely good. Most are not. But here's what I noticed: I was spending the same amount of time "planning" the bad ideas as the good ones. I'd write a PRD for somethi...Jan 24·5 min read
joegarcia.devWhy Workload Identity Is Hard to Explain (And How I Tried to Fix It)I've spent a lot of time explaining workload identity to people. Like, a lot. And I've watched a lot of eyes glaze over. It's not that people aren't smart. It's that when you explain something they already know, like a database or a container or what...Dec 10, 2025·4 min read
