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2026

They say you should never write your own database. So what did I do?original ↗

21 Aug 2026

tinyblok: monoblok's patchbay on an ESP32-C6: a £5 microcontroller original ↗

3 May 2026

Taming a market data firehose efficiently with monoblok original ↗

29 Apr 2026

A playground for monoblok original ↗

24 Apr 2026

monoblok: signal conditioning in a messaging broker original ↗

21 Apr 2026

Excel as an accidental stream processor original ↗

27 Mar 2026

zigxll: building Excel XLL add-ins in Zig original ↗

10 Mar 2026

2023

NATS as a web application backend original ↗

14 May 2023

2022

End of 2022 original ↗

31 Dec 2022

Using change data capture to perform flexible aggregations with DynamoDB and Druid original ↗

7 Aug 2022

Patching in a development service original ↗

14 Jul 2022

Clutch spring and a tuning fork original ↗

22 Jun 2022

2021

A check over and some new suspension parts original ↗

11 Nov 2021

DynamoDB pagination with page numbers in URLs original ↗

27 Oct 2021

Let there be light original ↗

15 Oct 2021

Front dash speaker upgrade original ↗

11 Oct 2021

Bought one!original ↗

9 Oct 2021

2020

Squeezing ClickHouse into Cloud Run original ↗

23 Jan 2020

2019

Driving an OLED display with a Raspberry Pi and AWS IoT original ↗

19 Dec 2019

2017

Exploring Druid original ↗

23 Jan 2017

2014

There's no shame in code that is simply good enough original ↗

21 Nov 2014