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2027-07

Jul 10Now YoursThe law says you're an adult n…

2026-11

Nov 09Five HundredTurning pages of one copy out …

2026-10

Oct 05One More ThingThe day Apple's homepage went …

2026-08

Aug 10Built HometownBuilt the hometown, locally.

2026-07

Jul 30Bad BlocksA friend found a thousand CD-R…

Jul 29Trust the BrowserThe browser as a benevolent in…

Jul 28Structured IntimacyThere are places where rules c…

Jul 27Talks BackA quarter century of being pun…

Jul 26BurnThe day the computer became ev…

Jul 25Three CarriersBefore email became UTF-8.

Jul 24Query CacheThe day MySQL's query cache di…

Jul 23Level DesignWorld 1-1 has no tutorial.

Jul 22Unwanted EndingWe learn from endings we didn'…

Jul 21Couldn't TossNo one remembers the LS-120 an…

Jul 20Lost BusAn old hard drive turned up wh…

Jul 19Under TenTax advisors always recommend …

Jul 18No VGAHow do you reach a server with…

Jul 17Watching DefragWatching something move along …

Jul 16Without HimIt was the company he invited …

Jul 15Connect LaterYou can't walk the map. Only t…

Jul 14ResolverI wanted to rewrite CoreDNS's …

Jul 13Lead SheetWhen the field changes, the wo…

Jul 12Dual PowerRedundancy is comforting. Unti…

Jul 11Retreat RouteKnowing how to prepare an exit…

Jul 10Happy BirthdayTo my family.

Jul 09Paid CompilerWhen compilers cost money.

Jul 08Just a FileI thought it was a database be…

Jul 07OverflowThe 32-bit clock is quietly ap…

Jul 06Last ShelfThree books I can't throw away…

Jul 05QR CinemaSomeone packed text into a vid…

Jul 04Sorted SetDo not build rankings on an RD…

Jul 03Quality GateTo improve quality, I started …

Jul 02Write OnceWrite once, run anywhere. That…

Jul 01White FlagOn the other end of the line, …

2026-06

Jun 30Know Your PlayerTilt your face to the right, t…

Jun 29Smaller WorldIt started with a file that wo…

Jun 28Applet TraumaFirst impressions of Java, for…

Jun 27Own ForeverLet me prepay thirty years. Ju…

Jun 26Don't Drop ItYou can lose your life, but do…

Jun 25On MuteNot as an engineer. As a custo…

Jun 24Observer EffectWhen the safety net becomes th…

Jun 23Mixed InThe art of passing fixes that …

Jun 22Friend RequestI never sent it. Still haven't…

Jun 21Higher WallThe wall got taller. Only the …

Jun 20Cache ControlCache hit ratio holds everythi…

Jun 19Power of TwoJust keep splitting in two, an…

Jun 18MunitionsA new model vanished in three …

Jun 17Read ReplicaReading is easy. Knowing where…

Jun 16AkihabaraThe electric town changed. The…

Jun 15Other SideThe seams of integration sit i…

Jun 14ToleranceScrews have tolerances. Code d…

Jun 13Batch NightBatch jobs are considered simp…

Jun 12Time MachineThey wanted to see last week's…

Jun 11Next DoorThe team next door is on fire …

Jun 10Invisible PagesUsers can see the page. Google…

Jun 09Seam AllowanceDesign philosophy shows in the…

Jun 08Stay ConnectedHTTP was designed to disconnec…

Jun 07Design OnlyOne company conquered the worl…

Jun 06Stitch DataEvery needle strike has coordi…

Jun 05Human BugSome bugs can't be caught in s…

Jun 04Illusion of ControlWhat matters isn't whether you…

Jun 03Dress RehearsalALTER TABLE on a few hundred m…

Jun 02Pipe ChairA pipe chair and Hidemaru. Tha…

Jun 01Still WAVMIDI was free. VST was too fre…

2026-05

May 31Language SwitchA mild-mannered friend was scr…

May 30I LiedEngineers don't make mistakes.…

May 29Fault LineWhere you draw the line decide…

May 28Dry RunProduction load can only be re…

May 27Invisible BreachThey got in. You never knew.

May 26Same TradeoffSpeed or consistency. The same…

May 25CounterpointFollow every rule, and it stil…

May 24Borrowed ComputeI wanted to give staff Grok. C…

May 23Review LensA review without a lens is jus…

May 22Bundle of JoyFrontend build tools turn over…

May 21Long TermLong Term turns out to mean th…

May 20Glass HousesAn honest opinion, they said.

May 19Lint Your LifeSomeone who ships buggy OSS ha…

May 18Cold StartNever send production traffic …

May 17HDMLNot HTML. HDML.

May 16Not My RootBeing told you don't have perm…

May 15GPL InfectionCode is contagious. So are lic…

May 14ffmpegMost video you watch works bec…

May 13Every AlleyBehind every dominant service,…

May 12Image Format WarsThe history of image formats i…

May 11Lens BoxParent and child fall into the…

May 10Story PointsI dislike ritual. But some too…

May 09Author ArrestedThe code was innocent. The aut…

May 08Player ManagerYou can't play and manage at t…

May 07Rest in PeaceThe death of a product opens t…

May 06Our BattlefieldWe fight on top of HTTP.

May 05Memory WarpMemory contents fly across ser…

May 04Found in HoursNine years in the kernel. An A…

May 03StarfireA machine worth over ¥100 mill…

May 02Just a Search BoxOne search box changed the wor…

May 01Blunt WeaponThere's a blunt weapon that en…

2026-04

Apr 30Magic KeyboardThe story of someone who never…

Apr 29Skinned KneesChildren who never fall never …

Apr 28Inbox ZeroEmail delivery is taken for gr…

Apr 27Port 53The backbone of the internet r…

Apr 26Ten ThousandTen thousand concurrent connec…

Apr 25Green LightIt was a long road before depl…

Apr 24Free TrackerFree always has a reason. Goog…

Apr 23Crawl BudgetA page the crawler can't read …

Apr 22Cursed CompatibilityCompatibility is a virtue. It …

Apr 21All in TCP/IPCommunication protocols do eve…

Apr 20Social EngineerThe biggest vulnerability was …

Apr 19Selling TomorrowThe offer that came through so…

Apr 18Same FeedbackFlagged again. And again. And …

Apr 17Reinventing PollingHistory repeats. So does polli…

Apr 16Tests RemainThe person who wrote the code …

Apr 15Inside JobFifteen years ago, I brute-for…

Apr 14No OracleProblems with correct answers …

Apr 13Expiring CoinsThe coins you paid for and the…

Apr 12Four BytesA generation once swam the swa…

Apr 11Ticket MessCutting a ticket does not mean…

Apr 10Small DictionaryShrinking the dictionary meant…

Apr 09Freedom to CrashI want the freedom to crash.

Apr 08Port ExhaustionThere are only 65,535 ports. Y…

Apr 07Sewage DesignOrganizational stress rots if …

Apr 06No StarsThe blinking of stars became t…

Apr 05Trusted SourceNo one reads the code that flo…

Apr 04Three VirtuesLaziness, hubris, impatience. …

Apr 03Tunnel VisionSet up a VPN for the first tim…

Apr 02Same NameREPEATABLE READ — same name, d…

Apr 01DNS PrankWe rewrote the office DNS. It …

2026-03

Mar 31Margin Call"Five days." It took seven.

Mar 30Layer 8The staircase we once descende…

Mar 29Search from ScratchFull-text search, no server.

Mar 28Read the MetricsThe API was intermittently slo…

Mar 27Price TagBetween the lines of an estima…

Mar 26UncoveredCombinatorial testing doesn't …

Mar 25Build Your OwnReinventing the wheel gets you…

Mar 24Full Stack DiseaseSelf-proclaimed full-stack eng…

Mar 23LubricantNot turning the gears — reduci…

Mar 22Talk to ItIt's less about writing code, …

Mar 21First EarsAI knows counterpoint. But it …

Mar 20Gray ZoneIaC ownership overlaps. It's n…

Mar 19No Map InsideFewer engineers truly understa…

Mar 18Tea CeremonyI switched to enterprise. It w…

Mar 17Lost HometownI had a best friend whose name…

Mar 16No EncorePeople pay for stories. Even w…

Mar 15Last RouterWhat becomes of someone who on…

Mar 14Still FaxingA car dealer asked me to fax m…

Mar 13Fork LifeAfter the code, what do you wr…

Mar 12No GuardrailsRemove the guardrails, lose th…

Mar 11Not Life or DeathOur work is not a matter of li…

Mar 10Memory TaxDDR5 is unaffordable. AI took …

Mar 09Cognitive LoadGetting worse at parallel proc…

Mar 07Missed WaveBefore the word "social networ…

Mar 06Not Doraemon YetSomething is wrong when your r…

Mar 05Eviction PolicyRedis has an eviction policy. …

Mar 03Nobility FadesI won a used Enterprise 4500 a…

Mar 02Still ReadableThe greatest invention might b…

Mar 01No Silver BusI never liked gRPC. But the re…

2026-02

Feb 27DB FanboyWe put all the business logic …

Feb 25Things BreakThe data center that never goe…

Feb 23Cache MissA frontend update killed the b…

Feb 22First Router¥200,000 in savings, about $1,…

Feb 20Lift HeavyIn 2026 I bought out a physica…

Feb 18Index TheorySame table, different cutlery.

Feb 17Not ManufacturingThe ideal project leaves nothi…

Feb 15SQL PersistsAntitheses rise and fall. SQL …

Feb 13Hello WorldNice to meet you.

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