Topics

The useful threads running through the archive, gathered in one place.

5 essays

PostgreSQL

Wire protocols, connection state, database incidents, and compatibility from the inside out.

1 essay

Reliability & payments

Designing honest systems for uncertain networks, retries, timeouts, and money movement.

4 essays

Why this over that

Practical technology choices, with the trade-offs and context left intact.

2 essays

AI & agents

What survives contact with production, from coding agents to personal assistants.

10 essays

Personal essays

Names, ambition, growing up, Lagos, food, and everything beyond the terminal.