WRITING ARCHIVE

2020

90 published posts.

2020-12-27The Armenian Thread in System of a Downmusic
2020-12-23Psycho — Obsession, Performance, and the Point Where Desire Becomes Loopmusic
2020-12-23A Clean Checkout Is the Build Test That Matterswriting
2020-12-23Backup Size History Can Reveal Missing Datawriting
2020-12-12V133A Was Safe Because the Power Feature Could Not Rewrite Golden Mainwriting
2020-12-12Secure Boot and Flash Encryption Should Not Be Burned into Prototype eFuses Casuallywriting
2020-12-08Trunk Ports: The Part of VLANs I Initially Misunderstoodwriting
2020-12-06How We Learned to See Geometryperspectives
2020-11-30Five Devices and Twenty Devices Are Different Testswriting
2020-11-24Packet Drops Are More Actionable Than Raw Bandwidthwriting
2020-11-22Image Storage Growth Is Different from Runtime Data Growthwriting
2020-11-18Cloudflare Tunnel Reaches Caddy but Still Returns 502writing
2020-11-17Where the user interface Analogy Breaksperspectives
2020-11-15Recovery Tests Are More Valuable Than Backup Countswriting
2020-11-15ALDO2 and ALDO3 Became Named Product Railswriting
2020-11-11Rollback Has to Include Persistent-State Compatibilitywriting
2020-11-07Where the unexpected system behavior Analogy Breaksperspectives
2020-11-05What Intelligence Really Isperspectives
2020-11-05Dramatic Theme — When a Soundtrack Knows It Is Closing a Scenemusic
2020-11-03Rolling Back Code Is Not the Same as Rolling Back Datawriting
2020-10-31Metric Relabeling Can Be a Memory Optimizationwriting
2020-10-29One Deadlock Is Worth Recordingwriting
2020-10-20Terraform Stacks vs Workspaces Is a Lifecycle Design Choicewriting
2020-10-06tcpdump on a PBX Taught Me to Trust the Wire Before the GUIwriting
2020-10-06Monitoring Tax: Why Exporters Need Resource Budgetswriting
2020-10-06How Much Prometheus Is Too Much for an 8 GB Machine?writing
2020-09-24Violent Pornography — Consumption, Repetition, and the Machine-Like Side of Desiremusic
2020-09-21How We Learned to See Communication Technologyperspectives
2020-09-21A WS2812 on a 3.3 V GPIO Needs a Real Logic-Level Decisionwriting
2020-09-07Attack — Urgency That Refuses a Gentle Introductionmusic
2020-08-31Page Cache Is Not a Memory Leakwriting
2020-08-30BYE Handling Is Part of Resource Correctnesswriting
2020-08-21Streamline — Loss, Distance, and the Finality of Not Getting Another Conversationmusic
2020-08-21Why 99.9% Uptime Does Not Tell Me When to Wake Someone Upwriting
2020-08-19The Rotary Encoder Makes Lists Work Without a Touchscreenwriting
2020-08-12Self-Titled Rawness vs Toxicity Precisionmusic
2020-08-12Provisioning Failure Needs a Recoverable Pathwriting
2020-08-12Where Should a Message Wait for an Offline Node?writing
2020-08-10A Growing Queue Is Growing Work Debtwriting
2020-08-09A Mobile NOC Dashboard Should Show Decisions, Not Every Metricwriting
2020-08-03Removing Text and Social Features Also Reduces the Security Surfacewriting
2020-08-02Least-Privilege Backup Receipts Let Operators Verify Without Reading the Backupswriting
2020-07-22Obscured by Clouds — When Atmosphere Becomes the Subjectmusic
2020-06-24Infrastructure Configuration Deserves Code Reviewperspectives
2020-06-22What Computation Really Isperspectives
2020-06-22Where the central processor Analogy Breaksperspectives
2020-06-16Where Does the Cell-as-Computer Analogy Stop Working?perspectives
2020-06-15The Philosophical Problem Hidden Inside Evolutionperspectives
2020-06-15Overview vs Drill-Down: One Dashboard Cannot Do Both Wellwriting
2020-06-14I-E-A-I-A-I-O — Memory, Nonsense, and the Strange Persistence of Soundmusic
2020-06-14Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 — When Isolation Stops Feeling Accidentalmusic
2020-06-02Cirrus Minor — Stillness That Feels Larger Than the Scenemusic
2020-06-02Cloudflare KV, Durable Objects, Queues, and D1 Fail Differently Because Their Consistency Models Differperspectives
2020-06-02Charging Records Are Easier to Trust When I Trace the Event That Created Themwriting
2020-06-01V132A: Turning Clear Audio into a Preserved Release Assetwriting
2020-05-29Audit Logs Matter Because Secret Reads Are Security Eventswriting
2020-05-28What Mathematics Really Isperspectives
2020-05-28Heartbeat Freshness Is More Useful Than “Container Running” for Voice Workerswriting
2020-05-25Automatic Rollback and Fleet Rollback Solve Different Failureswriting
2020-05-25Container Network Errors Matter More Than Throughput Alonewriting
2020-05-13The Device State Machine Is Part of the Product Contractwriting
2020-05-13Port 5044 and the Difference Between Log Generation and Log Transportperspectives
2020-04-11A SIP Load Balancer Needs Dialog Awareness Somewherewriting
2020-04-09How We Learned to See Complexityperspectives
2020-04-07timerfd Gave Me 21–26 Ticks When I Needed About 50writing
2020-04-06Forest — Family Language, Authority, and the Question of Who Gets to Leadmusic
2020-04-0532x32 MIMO Made More Sense When I Stopped Counting Antennaswriting
2020-03-30How We Learned to See Climateperspectives
2020-03-28A Source-Ownership Manifest Solved the 'Who Owns This Container?' Problemwriting
2020-03-28Working Set Is More Useful Than a Single Memory Numberwriting
2020-03-25Worker Heartbeat Age Catches Silent FreeSWITCH Failurewriting
2020-03-21AEC Starts with a Truthful Reference Signalwriting
2020-03-21An AEC-Off Run Is a Control Experiment, Not a Product Settingwriting
2020-03-18Retention Needs Both Time and Size Limitswriting
2020-03-16Album Art as Family Collaborationmusic
2020-03-12The Philosophical Problem Hidden Inside The Immune Systemperspectives
2020-03-11The Backend Can Be Down Without Making the Phone Uselesswriting
2020-03-05Incident Response Starts Before the Incidentwriting
2020-03-02What Feedback Really Isperspectives
2020-02-22Resolved Notifications Are Part of the Incident Lifecyclewriting
2020-02-22Blameless Does Not Mean Cause-Freewriting
2020-02-17Where the continuous production migration Analogy Breaksperspectives
2020-02-14Multiple Paths Do Not Create Free Reliabilityperspectives
2020-02-12How We Learned to See Numberperspectives
2020-02-12Reconstructing V115 as a Known-Good Behavioral Controlwriting
2020-02-05pgvector HNSW Can Return Fast Answers That Are Operationally Wrongperspectives
2020-01-28ATWA — Distance From the World Without Complete Indifference to Itmusic
2020-01-19The Happiest Days of Our Lives — Why Institutional Cruelty Often Hides Behind Routinemusic
2020-01-13Context Switches and Interrupts Explain Some Invisible CPU Costwriting
2020-01-09Up the Khyber — Rhythm as a Landscape Rather Than a Song Formmusic