// February 2026
Server room
infrastructure
Why I Moved Our Entire Platform to Edge Functions

Cold starts were killing us. Here's how we dropped p99 latency from 2.3s to under 80ms by rethinking where code runs, and why the migration wasn't as painful as everyone warned.

cloudflare edge performance
2026-02-14 · 8 min read · 2.4k views
Morning light
Reflection
The Year I Stopped Optimizing Everything

Somewhere between the fifth productivity app and the color-coded calendar, I realized I'd turned my life into a sprint backlog. Here's what happened when I finally stopped treating myself like a system to debug.

reflection growth
February 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Code on screen
tooling
The Monorepo Migration Nobody Asked For

Consolidating 23 microservice repos into a single Turborepo workspace. What broke, what healed, and the tooling decisions that made it survivable.

turborepo monorepo dx
2026-02-07 · 12 min read · 3.1k views
Sidewalk
Family
Teaching My Daughter to Ride a Bike (and Letting Go)

She wobbled. She fell. She got back up. And at some point on that cracked sidewalk, I realized this wasn't really about the bike at all. It was about my own inability to let something I love be out of my control.

family parenting
February 3, 2026 · 7 min read
// January 2026
Terraform code
code
Parsing HCL Files Without Losing Your Mind

A deep dive into building a Terraform file parser in Go that handles nested blocks, expression evaluation, and module references without collapsing into recursive madness.

go terraform parsing
2026-01-28 · 6 min read · 1.8k views
Stack of books
Books
Five Books That Changed How I Think About Work

Not the usual "business book" roundup. These are the odd, sideways reads that quietly rewired how I approach problems, teams, and the craft of making things.

books growth
January 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Container orchestration
infrastructure
Docker Compose in Production: A Love Letter and a Warning

Yes, I'm running Docker Compose in production. Before you close this tab, let me explain why it's the right choice for 80% of the projects you'll ever work on.

docker devops infrastructure
2026-01-19 · 10 min read · 5.2k views
Running trail
Reflection
Running Taught Me More Than Any Standup Ever Did

I started running to lose weight. Three years later, it's become the only meeting I never skip. There's something about mile six that loosens the knots in my thinking.

running reflection
January 14, 2026 · 6 min read
TypeScript
code
Generating TypeScript Types from Database Schemas

Stop writing types by hand. I built a tool that reads your Postgres schema and generates fully typed interfaces, query builders, and validation schemas.

typescript postgres codegen
2026-01-08 · 9 min read · 2.7k views
Kitchen
Family
The Sunday Pancake Ritual

Every Sunday morning, the kitchen becomes a disaster zone. Flour on the ceiling, batter on the dog, three kids arguing about chocolate chips. It's the best part of my week.

family rituals
January 5, 2026 · 3 min read