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9 posts · latest 2026.07
Writing.
Notes on software engineering, infrastructure, and tooling.
2026.07.07
The broken apprenticeship
The boring middle was the school. Agents just closed it.
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2026.05.04
Finding your value as a software engineer
When code is free, what is the engineer paid for.
7 min
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2026.04.28
What I got wrong about skill evals
Notes from a second pass after Berkeley and Anthropic.
9 min
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2026.04.24
The end of glue code
Why most of data engineering is glue, and why that is about to change.
7 min
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2026.03.27
httpx.AsyncClient in long-running processes
Four defaults that cost file descriptors, latency, and pool capacity.
7 min
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2026.03.06
FastAPI under load: async, sync, and DI
The three settings that matter between the first deploy and the hundredth.
7 min
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2026.02.13
One endpoint, many formats
HTTP content negotiation is still doing work nobody remembers giving it.
6 min
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2025.12.04
Arrow IPC over HTTP
Streaming columnar data straight into pandas, polars, and duckdb.
8 min
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2025.05.17
OpenTelemetry is the boring tool I love
Why I install it on day one, every time.
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