The journal
Notes from the team.
Operator-level writing on custom software, infrastructure, and the business of running engineering teams that have to hold up in production. No think pieces. No disruption hype. Just what we've learned shipping real systems.
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AI Is Giving Us Engineers More Work, Not Less
Everyone said AI would make us all 10x or put us out of a job. Three years later, neither happened. The little stuff just got cheap to build, and now I'm busier than ever.
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5 min read
Mantle is Shutting Down -- And I Breathed a Sigh of Relief
We built Raptify's billing around Mantle, then their all-in MCP pivot left our needs unmet. A week with Claude, Stripe, and Shopify later, the shutdown announcement made the decision for us.
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5 min read
Postgres is my go-to database and I'm tired of pretending there are other options
Ok, hot-take title aside: this is specifically with regards to relational databases (and hybrid document stores if you use Postgres that way), obviously if you need time series, graph, key-value, there are better engines…
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3 min read
New Look, Old Us
We went ahead and updated our website, what that means and where we're going.
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