Decisions from the workbench
Technical progress becomes more useful when the tradeoffs behind it are recorded.
Projects tend to preserve their code and lose their reasoning. Months later, the implementation remains, but the constraints that shaped it have disappeared.
This is why I have started treating decision notes as part of the work itself.
Record the pressure, not only the choice
Saying that a project uses a particular framework is not very informative. The useful record explains what the project needed, which alternatives were considered, and what cost was accepted.
For a small personal site, a static build may be preferable to a database-backed application. The decision is not that static sites are universally better. It is that the publishing workflow, maintenance budget, and expected behavior do not justify more moving parts.
Keep decisions revisable
A decision note should not become a permanent commandment. Requirements change. Better tools appear. Experience reveals costs that were invisible at the beginning.
The note provides a baseline: this is what was known, this is what mattered, and this is why the choice was reasonable at the time. That makes changing direction easier, because the new decision can respond to the old reasoning instead of starting from memory.