About

I'm @brandur, an occasional writer, and engineer at Stripe and previously Heroku.

I most often talk about web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.

Articles

Doubling the Sorting Speed of Postgres Network Types with Abbreviated Keys
Making the sorting speed of network types in Postgres twice as fast by designing SortSupport abbreviated keys compatible with their existing sort semantics. August 7, 2019
Sequences: A Modest, Contra-garden Travel Project
In the spirit of the continued production of independent content, I'm running a two-week photography and writing project in Berlin called Sequences. June 4, 2019
Building a Robust Live Reloader with WebSockets and Go
A walkthrough of the design of a live reload feature for the static site generator that builds this site, touching on fsnotify, WebSockets, and the curious case of file 4913. May 28, 2019

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Development log: libjpeg / MozJPEG optimization shootout
Comparing the results of libjpeg and MozJPEG by optimizing the archive of image's from this very website. April 15, 2020

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