How we cut p99 latency by 80% with one trace[Engineering]
A single OpenTelemetry trace showed us where to look. The fix was a five-line config change.→
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Notes on maintainer burnout[Open Source]
Three years running a popular Go library taught me that the work isn't the code — it's the inbox.→
Incident retrospective: the cache stampede of April 14[Retrospectives]
What happened, what we did about it, and the one thing I'd do differently next time.→
Building a second brain with Obsidian[Projects]
Obsidian is the foundation, but it doesn't do everything. Here's the local-first setup I use for personal notes and the small layer I add on top for enterprise.→
CLI aliases I actually use[Notes]
A short, opinionated list. Most of these are about saving a few seconds a hundred times a day.→