Moving my video transcoding to Apple Silicon
2026-03-31
A rack of Rock Pi 5s couldn't keep up, so I moved transcoding to Apple Silicon — and built Barn to run the jobs.
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Zero-downtime deploys with blue-green on Kubernetes
2026-03-24
RollingUpdate is fine until you want to test before you switch.
Laravel Horizon and the maxProcesses trap
2026-03-23
Switching from raw queue workers to Horizon, and the memory bill that followed.
From MariaDB Galera to CloudNativePG
2026-03-22
Why I migrated my HA database from a Galera cluster to Postgres.
Git Work Trees are Awesome!
2026-03-07
A god send for multitasking with Copilot.
You're Accountable! Not the AI!
2026-03-06
Here's why your software engineering job is safe
Six weeks for a dev environment
2026-02-23
My new job took six weeks to give me somewhere to write code. At home it's five minutes and a few clicks.
How did I miss this?
2026-01-12
I could have saved so much money on Jet Brains IDE's.
All you need is claude
2025-12-19
You don't need to switch between agents. Going through the entire SDLC with claude.
Laravel Livewire is a terrible idea
2025-11-21
Sending http request to handle browser only events is just stupid
Let me google that for you
2025-10-10
Dealing with colleagues who won't research.
Rust, the language design of lies
2025-08-01
Memory safety is a spectrum, and the marketing pretends it's absolute.