Craft
How I Read Unfamiliar Codebases
A few habits that actually cut the time I spend confused in someone else's repo. Grep patterns, entry points, and why I always read the tests first.
April 8, 2026
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2026
Tools
A Year of Neovim: Still Mostly Using Vim Keybindings
What changed, what didn't, and whether the migration was worth the weekend I spent on it. Plugins I kept, plugins I removed, and the one thing I miss about plain Vim.
March 18, 2026
Backend
SQLite as Your Primary Database: What Nobody Warns You About
The things I wish someone had told me before I shipped a production service on SQLite. WAL mode, backup strategy, and the one query pattern that will hurt you.
February 20, 2026
Workflow
Dotfiles in 2026: Why I Finally Stopped Copying Other People's
Three years of cargo-culting configs, then finally understanding what I actually needed. How I structure mine now and what I removed.
January 14, 2026
2025
Reflections
2025: Year in Review
What I shipped, what I broke, what I learned, and what I'm carrying into next year.
December 30, 2025
Infrastructure
Self-Hosting Notes: Two Years In
What survived, what I gave up on, and the surprising things I stopped noticing. A realistic picture of running your own services.
December 9, 2025
Go
Go Error Handling: Patterns That Actually Work for Me
After three production services in Go, here's what I stopped arguing about and just started doing. Wrapping, sentinel errors, and when to use each.
November 5, 2025