https://velantis.cfd/ Writing about backend engineering, infrastructure, and the tools I use daily. By Nico. en-us Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://velantis.cfd/assets/og-preview.png https://velantis.cfd/ https://velantis.cfd/blog/reading-code.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/reading-code.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The approach I've settled on after too many hours lost to reading code in the wrong order. https://velantis.cfd/blog/neovim-year.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/neovim-year.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A year into using Neovim as my primary editor: what actually stayed from the initial setup, what I removed, and what changed. https://velantis.cfd/blog/sqlite-production.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/sqlite-production.html Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The things I wish someone had told me before shipping a production service on SQLite. WAL mode, backup strategy, and the query pattern that hurts. https://velantis.cfd/blog/dotfiles-2026.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/dotfiles-2026.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three years of cargo-culting configs, then finally understanding what I actually needed. How I structure mine now and what I removed. https://velantis.cfd/blog/year-2025.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/year-2025.html Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What I shipped, what I broke, what I learned, and what I'm carrying into 2026. https://velantis.cfd/blog/self-hosting.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/self-hosting.html Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What survived two years of self-hosting, what I gave up on, and the surprising things I stopped noticing. https://velantis.cfd/blog/go-errors.html https://velantis.cfd/blog/go-errors.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 After three production services in Go, here's what I stopped arguing about and just started doing with error handling.