Hello

A short note on what this is.

I keep ending up writing the same paragraph in Slack DMs and pull-request descriptions — "the reason we picked X over Y was…" or "the bug ended up being a Postgres connection-pool thing." Those notes are useful and they keep dying in scrollback. So this is where they live now.

What to expect

• short posts on what I'm shipping at work and on side projects
• the bug that took two days, written down in case it saves the next person two days
• occasional "I tried X, here's whether it was worth it"

Most posts here will originate as commit messages or PR comments and get expanded out. Cross-posted to dev.to and sometimes Medium with the canonical URL pointing back here.

On the format

Posts are MDX, which means I can drop in real diagrams when prose isn't enough:

…and code, with proper monospace and syntax tokens:

// the simplest reading-time function that actually ships
const minutes = Math.max(1, Math.ceil(wordCount / 200));

If you came in from a search engine looking for the answer to a specific bug, I hope it helped. If you came in from somewhere I shared this — thanks for clicking.