Redowan's Reflections

I’m talking in the context of industrial programming.

A few months back, Pi’s creator Mario Zechner gave a talk on developing Pi and slowing things down.

I’ve done my share of system design interviews over the years.

Go’s proposal for package flag was accepted on July 23, 2026.

Go’s proposal to allow examples with any signature was accepted on July 8.

These days, unmanaged go func() calls don’t appear as often as they used to in the early days of Go.

While going through the Go generics proposal, I got curious about how the compiler implements it.

Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix from scratch.

Say you put a cache in front of Postgres to speed up reads.

I ran into the classic “range over a channel” leak while working on a custom cron scheduler.

Go 1.27 is getting a goroutine leak detector in runtime/pprof.

Postgres 19 finally gives us a clean way to do read-after-write across replicas.

I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years.

I put this blog on standard.site.

In a funny turn of events, as AI spending spirals out of control, tokenmaxxing is now considered harmful.

While wrapping up eon, I wanted to test the binary the same way a user would use it.