Building a tiny static site generator in 200 lines of Go
Sometimes the right answer is not Hugo or Astro but a file you can read in one sitting. We walked through every line in a guild lunch and somehow shipped a new docs site by the end of the day.
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A practical guide to writing migrations you can actually run on Friday
Most database migrations fail not because the SQL is wrong but because nobody tested them against a realistic dataset. We share the rollout checklist we use for every schema change, including the awkward question of when to lock a table and when to live with the inconsistency.
Notes on running Postgres on Kubernetes in 2026
Five years ago this would have been a controversial post. Today we have battle-tested operators, decent storage classes and a community that has finally agreed on backup tooling. Here is the stack we landed on for a fleet of around forty clusters.
Feature flags are not a substitute for testing
Every team eventually discovers the joy of shipping behind a flag. Fewer teams discover the misery of cleaning up flags two years later when the original author has long since left the company. A short rant and a longer guide.
Reading the source of your favourite open source library is a superpower
There is no faster way to grow as an engineer than spending an evening with a debugger and a project you depend on every day. Here are the libraries that taught us the most and the exact commits worth bookmarking.