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2026

A walk through autovacuum, again May 14
On the proper use of context.Context Apr 28
Observability is overrated, mostly Apr 3
Three years of distributed work, a personal retro Mar 19
Notes from rewriting the same web scraper for the third time Feb 22
A book I disagreed with about engineering management Jan 11

2025

Choosing an HTTP client for Go in 2025, briefly Dec 18
The case for partial indexes Nov 30
A small Go pattern: deferred validators Nov 7
Why I stopped using ORMs, again Oct 14
The Kafka migration that wasn't Sep 22
Notes from a quiet sabbatical Aug 5
On reading source code as a daily practice Jul 11
A career retrospective: ten years of backend work Jun 1
Why your Postgres queries are slow, probably May 20
Cooking and software Apr 8
A review of "A Philosophy of Software Design" Mar 16
On writing technical documentation that doesn't lie Feb 2
A new year, the same anxieties Jan 5

2024

Twelve things I learned about logical replication Dec 22
A walkthrough of a small Postgres extension Nov 17
Why we moved metrics off CloudWatch Oct 8
On the discipline of not building things Sep 14
A review of the Go 1.23 release notes Aug 26
Three years on, the Linux desktop is fine Jul 4
An old post worth resurfacing: how I tune Postgres Jun 17
Some thoughts on the discourse around AI tools May 23