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.
I'm a sometimes writer. Most frequently by publishing a newsletter called Nanoglyph (which you should sign up for :). Here are its latest issues:
- ⓝ 041 — 15, 16 November 17, 2023
- ⓝ 040 — Rails World, 7.1, Amsterdam October 14, 2023
- ⓝ 039 — Trails, Charleston,
t.Parallel()October 7, 2023
I put other stream of consciousness thoughts into tiny blog posts called fragments:
- 🐚 Be careful with Dropbox May 25, 2025
- 🐚 Optimizing JPEGs with MozJPEG for local archival March 29, 2025
- 🐚 The right way to do data fixtures in Go March 20, 2025
Once in a while, I write longer form articles:
- 📖 Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go May 28, 2024
- 📖 The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres May 5, 2024
- 📖 Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields May 4, 2024
As often as I can, I post a daily photo and update to sequences:
- 📷 094 — Sky blue April 4, 2025
- 📷 093 — Eighty-Eight December 29, 2024
- 📷 092 — Tori Bar December 20, 2024
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