Musings, notes, and the occasional strong opinion from Ipeluwa.https://ipeluwa.wtf/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/rewriting-the-future/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/rewriting-the-future/We build futures in our heads without noticing, and then life edits them. On losing a future that had already started to feel like a memory.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/almost-25/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/almost-25/On the peculiar expectations of the mid-twenties, and the discovery that confidence and clarity are not the same thing.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/people-who-make-ambition-possible/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/people-who-make-ambition-possible/We tell stories about solitary ambition. Almost nobody builds anything alone, and the ones holding you up rarely appear in the telling.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/endings-without-a-villain/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/endings-without-a-villain/Anger gives an ending a clean explanation. Incompatibility does not. On the harder kind of goodbye, the one with nobody to blame.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-markdown-over-cms/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-markdown-over-cms/Fourth in the Why this over that series: this blog is a folder of text files in git, and that is a feature list, not an absence of one.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-go-service-rust-tool/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-go-service-rust-tool/Third in the Why this over that series: I write both daily. The split that emerged isn't about language quality, it's about what each artifact is for.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-sse-over-websockets/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-sse-over-websockets/Second in the Why this over that series: most realtime features are one-way, and server-sent events give you reconnection, proxy-friendliness, and plain HTTP for free.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-sqlite-over-postgres/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/why-sqlite-over-postgres/First in the Why this over that series: for single-user and single-box systems, the world's most deployed database in one copyable file is not the compromise. It's the correct choice.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/what-i-let-coding-agents-do/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/what-i-let-coding-agents-do/A working engineer's division of labour with AI coding agents: where they genuinely excel, where they quietly rot a codebase, and the practices that keep the difference visible.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/the-correct-way-to-eat-suya/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/the-correct-way-to-eat-suya/Suya is not a meal, it is an event with meat in it. Eight rules, held with more conviction than any technical opinion I have.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/tracegres-flight-recorder/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/tracegres-flight-recorder/Why database incidents stay unexplained, what aviation figured out about that decades ago, and the design thinking behind Tracegres: incidents should be reconstructable, not anecdotal.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/whatsapp-ai-brain/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/whatsapp-ai-brain/Building Synq, a personal AI assistant that lives in my own WhatsApp: a Rust server, an unofficial bridge, semantic memory over every conversation, and replies that sound like me.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/traffic-is-a-personality-test/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/traffic-is-a-personality-test/Nobody is themselves in a go-slow. Everybody is themselves in a go-slow. A field guide to the people you become when the road stops moving.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/prepared-statements-vs-connection-pools/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/prepared-statements-vs-connection-pools/Part three of speaking fluent PostgreSQL: why the query that works locally dies behind pgbouncer, explained from the wire up, and every fix ranked.Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/faking-pg-catalog/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/faking-pg-catalog/Part two of speaking fluent PostgreSQL: the system catalog is the real compatibility surface. What psql and every GUI tool actually ask, the five tables that carry the load, and how to build a catalog shim from captured traffic instead of guesswork.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/speaking-fluent-postgresql/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/speaking-fluent-postgresql/What implementing the Postgres wire protocol from three directions taught me: the startup dance, the two protocols hiding inside it, why transactions are the hard part, and the compatibility lies every Postgres-compatible database must tell.Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/name-people-cant-say/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/name-people-cant-say/Six syllables, one inhale of hesitation, and a lifetime of small negotiations. What I have learned from watching people meet my name.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/network-you-actually-have/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/network-you-actually-have/Building consumer apps for African networks: latency budgets in round trips, the retry rule that prevents double charges, offline queues, payload discipline, and telling users the truth while the rail is slow.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/never-retry-a-timeout/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/never-retry-a-timeout/A timeout is not a failure, it is an unknown outcome. The double-charge lesson every payments engineer learns exactly once, formalised into rules you can apply today.Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/engineering-behind-aevu/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/engineering-behind-aevu/How a calm, comment-free social app gets built: interest-first ranking, a media pipeline that is really a state machine, and moderation that fails closed.Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/in-praise-of-the-aimless-walk/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/in-praise-of-the-aimless-walk/A walk with a destination is transport. A walk without one is something else entirely, and the first ten minutes are the toll you pay for it.Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/boring-technology/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/boring-technology/The most productive stack is the one you stop thinking about.Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/notes-app-graveyard/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/notes-app-graveyard/A tour of every system I built to remember things, and why I remember none of them.Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/hello-world/https://ipeluwa.wtf/posts/hello-world/Every blog starts with a post like this. Mine is no different, except it is shorter.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT