Writing
Notes on technology and travel.
Long-form when it deserves it, short when it doesn't. Filter by what you came for.
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12 Aug 2026
Rate limiting without a distributed lock
Token buckets, sliding windows, and why the simplest correct answer is usually the one you can reason about at 3am.
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28 Jul 2026
Three weeks in the Dolomites, on foot
Rifugio to rifugio with 8kg on my back. What I packed, what I regretted packing, and the pass that nearly ended it.
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03 Jul 2026
A postmortem I'm allowed to publish
Six hours of degraded writes traced back to one default value nobody had read since 2019.
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19 Jun 2026
The case for going somewhere boring
Second cities, off-season, and the underrated pleasure of a place that isn't performing for you.
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02 Jun 2026
I rewrote it in Rust and it was mostly fine
An honest accounting of what got faster, what got slower to write, and what I'd do differently.
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14 May 2026
Your staging environment is lying to you
Four ways staging diverges from production, and the cheapest fix for each.