I'm Brandur. This site is where I publish words and photos. The section updated most often is atoms, short multimedia particles reminiscent of a Twitter feed. I update my now page monthly according to what I'm working on and thinking about. I publish a newsletter as often as I can.
The paradox of free time
July 26, 2026
On how a long stretch of open, contiguous time makes you … less (?) productive.
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Rich, fully attributed context timeout errors in Go
June 10, 2026
Making Go’s generic context deadline exceeded errors traceable with small helpers that attribute the operation that timed out and indicate how long the timeout was.
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SQLite bulk insert with sqlc
June 6, 2026
These are a short selection of recently posted writing across all categories. See also atoms for a more frequently updated feed.