topics
the ten things this blog keeps coming back to, each with everything written about it in one place
thirty-odd posts in the order they happened to happen. that order is useless if you arrived looking for one specific thing.
so: ten 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
- sports tech — race systems, from an engineer’s seat
- essays — the posts that argue rather than demonstrate
if you want the argument rather than the subjects, start here . if you want everything by year, with a line on what each year was for, that’s archive . and the raw reverse-chronological feed is posts .