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the six things this blog keeps coming back to, each with everything written about it in one place

thirty-odd posts, written over two years, in the order they happened to happen. that order is useless if you arrived looking for one specific thing.

so: eight topics, each collecting everything written about it. these are the subjects i actually work in — not a tag cloud, which is a list of words, but a short list of things i have enough scar tissue to write about more than once.

  • go — services, apis, and the boilerplate tax
  • rust — tools, parsers, and things that have to be fast
  • postgres — concurrency bugs and data modelling
  • testing — testcontainers, and changing my mind about all of it
  • security — authorization holes i shipped and then found
  • infrastructure — one person, production, a budget
  • ai — llms in real work, and the fences i build around them
  • statistics — bugs that return a number instead of an error

if you want the raw reverse-chronological feed instead, that’s posts .