A software/infrastructure engineer. Maker of Atuin. Previously, lead the infrastructure team at PostHog, worked at Coinbase, Tracr and Arachnys.
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2024-05-14 08:00:00
Earlier today I was trying to figure out why I was getting the occasional latency spike. I suspected I had some slow queries that needed optimising, but in order to check I needed to enable slow query logging.
2024-05-06 08:00:00
I have very mixed opinions on LLMs, as they stand. This note won’t be digging into my thoughts there - I don’t want to have that discussion. However, while I’m not exactly doing cutting-edge research here, I do put effort into publishing for humans.
2024-04-09 08:00:00
I’ve been working on some more frontend code recently, and got quite tired of my import paths looking like this .
2024-02-26 08:00:00
Recently I’ve had the need to ignore a folder while searching with ripgrep. Normally rg will ignore anything specified by .gitignore, but I couldn’t set that in this case.
2024-02-16 08:00:00
My zsh has been a little slow to start for a while. Never enough to be a significant bother, but always something I’ve been meaning to get around to. Thorsten Ball had a great writeup about this here.
2024-01-22 08:00:00
I was playing with sqlite-zstd, and upon trying to load the extension… .load libsqlite_zstd Error: unknown command or invalid arguments: "load".
2024-01-09 08:00:00
Quitting my job to start a company.
2024-01-05 08:00:00
Creating a systemd service to automatically load zfs keys.
2023-11-27 08:00:00
I upgraded my mac to macOS 14, Sonoma earlier today. Upon first using it, my internet wouldn’t connect! Wifi or ethernet, nothing I tried work Even ping 8.