A mirror of John Rauser’s thread about big rewrites and why they are usually more complicated than they look.

A collection of practical Zoom tips for cleaner video calls, better audio, and fewer meeting distractions.

A note on HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects, what they help with, and where they fall short as a TLS migration strategy.

A tour of my home office setup in January 2020, including the desk, audio, video, and daily-use gear.

Notes on the home office ergonomics gear that worked for me after spending real time with it.

The fix for a confusing psycopg2 SSL error caused by sharing database connections across uWSGI forked workers.

A simple Postgres-to-BigQuery workflow using CSV exports and Google Cloud Storage for OLAP-style reporting.

A small python-dateutil parsing gotcha that is easy to miss when working with dates.

A short reflection on keeping learning systems current as technology and career needs change.

My review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications as a practical survey of what changed, and what still matters, in data systems.