i said i quit testing. then i shipped seven things.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

about a year ago i wrote a post declaring, with the serene confidence of a man who has never once been burned, that testing was a waste of time for a solo developer. write the feature, click around, push to prod, let the users find the bugs. i called it — and i am quoting myself here — “testing enlightenment stage three.”

i’d like to retract about sixty percent of that.

shipping a single self-contained go binary

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

picture it: a fresh vps, your ssh key just accepted, a blank box that has never heard of your app. you scp up a binary. then you scp up a config.yaml. then you remember the database is empty, so you apt install the migrate cli, scp up the migrations/ folder too, point one at the other, and pray the versions line up. four artifacts and a small ceremony, just to watch the thing print a banner and die because the config key got renamed two commits ago.

i did that dance one too many times on a little learning project and thought: why does a single go binary need a goddamn support convoy to boot?

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i said i quit testing. then i shipped seven things.

shipping a single self-contained go binary