writing — flat reverse chron
Things I wrote down so I wouldn't lose them.
Notes on real systems, mostly. Patterns, postmortems, things that break in production for stupid reasons. Some are arguments with my past self. Most are short.
2026
jun 13 I Thought Event Sourcing Was Just an Audit Log event-sourcing → jun 01 Stop Testing Timeouts with sleep(): The 3-Layer Local Simulation Stack infra → apr 29 The Invisible Name Check: How Two Regions Solved the Same Payment Problem payments → apr 16 The Ghost in the Switch: Why payments engineers have been running sagas for 40 years payments → apr 11 The Anatomy of a Card Tap: What Happens in 1 Second payments → — EOF —