brandur

Hi, I'm Brandur.

I like databases, the independent web, and fast interfaces. I write in full sentences on Slack and use emoticons instead emoji. I think the modern web took a wrong turn on its evolutionary path and that we should resurrect ideas from the earlier days of computing — less centralization, software that's harder to learn but more powerful, and wider technical literacy.

My personal website is here and I'm on Twitter at @brandur.

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I'm a sometimes writer. Most frequently by publishing a newsletter called Nanoglyph (which you should sign up for :). Here are its latest issues:

• ⓝ 050 — API Spring
• ⓝ 049 — The Death Knell, Paradise
• ⓝ 048 — The AI Edition

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

• 🐚 The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone
• 🐚 Occasionally injected clocks in Postgres
• 🐚 Testing the graceful handling of request cancellation in Go, 499s

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Once in a while, I write longer form articles:

• 📖 The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
• 📖 Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go
• 📖 The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres

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As often as I can, I post a daily photo and update to sequences:

• 📷 103 — Piaynemo Geosite
• 📷 102 — Raja Ampat
• 📷 101 — Lyon

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