Work. Life. Log.

Notes from work and life as a developer — what I built, what I dropped, and what stuck.

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I gave my first conference talk last month: twenty minutes on database migrations, to about eighty people. I rewrote the

Every index speeds up some reads and slows down every write. I learned this the hard way when a table with eleven indexe

Part three of the tools series, and the least technical one. One monitor instead of two, a keyboard I stopped tweaking,

Search engines decide whether a post is found; people decide whether it is read. For a long time I wrote for the first a

Merge commits tell you what happened; a rebased history tells you what changed. After years of switching between the two

The projects I still maintain all have something in common: they are small. Few dependencies, one clear job, nothing I n

Part two of the tools series. I have tried most note apps and ended up with a folder of plain markdown files and a searc

A cache is a promise that old data is still good enough. Most bugs I've chased in production came from forgetting the 'e

For two years I spent Friday afternoons reviewing the week. The notes got longer and the changes got smaller. I replaced

Comments go stale; types fail the build. On a recent project I deleted most of our doc comments and moved the same knowl

The first post in a short series on the tools I use every day. My terminal setup has gotten smaller every year: one shel