https://example.com/ Notes on Go, PostgreSQL, Linux and the occasional DevOps detour. en Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://example.com/posts/go-slog.html https://example.com/posts/go-slog.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The standard library finally has structured logging worth depending on. Notes from migrating a service off a third-party logger. https://example.com/posts/go-context.html https://example.com/posts/go-context.html Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A short catalogue of the context.Context patterns that earn their keep: deadlines, errgroup, and not leaking goroutines. https://example.com/posts/pgbouncer-pooling.html https://example.com/posts/pgbouncer-pooling.html Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why transaction pooling broke my prepared statements, and the three settings that matter more than pool size. https://example.com/posts/tmux-dotfiles.html https://example.com/posts/tmux-dotfiles.html Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 The parts of my terminal setup that survived three laptop migrations, and how I keep the dotfiles from rotting. https://example.com/posts/systemd-timers.html https://example.com/posts/systemd-timers.html Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Cron is fine until you want logs, dependencies, or a job that doesn't pile up. Moving periodic jobs to systemd timers. https://example.com/posts/postgres-explain.html https://example.com/posts/postgres-explain.html Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 A practical walk through a real query plan: where the time goes, what the row estimates mean, and when a Seq Scan is fine. https://example.com/posts/go-pprof-profiling.html https://example.com/posts/go-pprof-profiling.html Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 A memory graph that only ever went up. Using the heap profiler and a diff of two snapshots to find the culprit.