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• Postgres Backups to S3 with WAL-G and Kamal
  How to set up PITR backups for Postgres using Kamal and WAL-G.
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• Switching to Linux After 19 Years on macOS
  Is 2026 the Year of the Linux Desktop? Well...
  2026-01-09
• Event-driven Modular Monolith
  Strategies for keeping legacy Rails apps maintainable.
  2025-10-07
• Base32 Encoding Explained
  How does Base32 (or any Base2ⁿ) work exactly at the bit level?
  2023-12-17
• BasedUUID: URL-friendly, Base32-encoded UUIDs for Rails Models
  I made a simple Ruby gem to encode UUIDs to a more manageable format.
  2023-12-06
• How to Use UUIDv7 in Rails for Primary Keys
  UUIDv7 is a new time-sorted UUID format. Here's how to use it in Rails (and Postgres).
  2023-11-22
• Building an Image Processing Service in Go
  ImgKit project notes.
  2022-12-15
• How I Nearly Lost the Lightroom Catalog With All of My Photos
  A cautionary tale of how a botched migration to Synology NAS left me with 500GB of corrupt RAW files.
  2021-06-07
• Docker on macOS Without Performance Problems
  Solving the issues with Docker for Mac, once and for all.
  2021-04-04