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writing

Notes on the things that broke and what I did about them.

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posts

2026-05-21A job queue on Postgres SKIP LOCKED How litequeue claims work without a reaper goroutine, and why the broker had to go.
2026-05-03Why I moved off Kafka for a single-node workload A broker I never needed, three JVMs of operational tax, and the day I deleted them.
2026-04-12Migrating this box to Debian 12 A weekend reinstall of the VPS this site runs on, and the few things that bit me.
2026-03-28toml-diff 0.4: arrays-of-tables The release that finally diffs [[table]] without lying about order. Folded into the SKIP LOCKED writeup's tooling notes.
2026-02-09On buying boring infrastructure Why I default to Postgres and a single box until something forces my hand. Background reading for the Kafka post.