Once in a while, I write longer form articles on technical subjects like APIs, Go, or Postgres:

• Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go May 28, 2024

  Using a two-phase data load and render pattern to prevent N+1 queries in a generalized way. Especially useful in Go, but applicable in any language.

• The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres May 5, 2024

  Maximizing Postgres connection economy by using a single connection per program to receive and distribute all listen/notify notifications.

• Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields May 4, 2024

  Using Go’s DisallowUnknownFields option to improve an API’s integration experience by making paramter naming mistakes faster to resolve.

I put short stream of consciousness thoughts into tiny posts called fragments:

• Rails World 2024 October 6, 2024

  A few reflections on this year’s event. (It was great.)

• TIL: Variables in custom VSCode snippets October 4, 2024

  Using built-in variables in VSCode snippets to make publishing to this site incrementally faster.

• A few secure, random bytes without `pgcrypto` September 24, 2024

  Avoiding the pgcrypto extension and its OpenSSL dependency by generating cryptographically secure randomness through gen_random_uuid().