2026-09-14
Small tools, long half-life
The utilities I still use after a decade are the ones with one job, plain text interfaces, and no service to keep alive.
A small personal notebook
Notes from the quiet part of the stack.
Short write-ups about software, systems, and the habits that keep them boring. Updated whenever something seems worth remembering.
2026-07-02
Boring backups are the only backups
If restoring requires a runbook longer than the backup script, it is not a backup. It is a rehearsal for an outage.
2026-05-18
Spend the latency budget twice
Most slow paths are not slow because of one big cost. They are slow because twenty small costs were added without a budget.