Now

Currently shipping
consensus toys.

Reading Tanenbaum. Writing about quorums.
Trying to sit with hard problems for longer.

Last updated · May 8, 2026

Building

  • A toy Raft implementation in Go to feel the algorithm in my hands.
  • A small SWIM-style gossip layer for service membership.

Reading

  • Distributed Systems — Tanenbaum & Van Steen
  • Papers from USENIX on consensus and storage

Thinking about

  • What "consistency" actually means once you stop saying the word.
  • How to keep a weekly cadence without burning out.

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