vol. viii · work · the trail of tools

Things I've helped build.

Day-job projects, side tools, and the little experiments that escaped into the wild.

❦ at work
Lattice Storage staff eng · 2023–now

Distributed object store backing internal analytics pipelines. Designed the replication protocol, led the migration from a third-party blob store, and cut storage costs by ~40%.

scaleconsensus go · raft · postgres · kafka
Quicksilver Queue senior eng · 2021–23

Internal job queue with strict ordering guarantees for financial transactions. Replaced a brittle cron-based system; zero missed jobs in 18 months of production.

queuesmigration rust · redis · postgres
❦ side projects
sift solo · 2024

A tiny log-search CLI that understands structured JSON logs without a schema. Pipe it anything; it figures out the shape and lets you query in plain English.

clismall go 1.4k ★
tinyq solo · 2023

Embedded job queue for SQLite. No separate process, no network, no infra. Drop a Go package in and you have reliable background jobs in under five minutes.

embedded go · sqlite 612 ★
bookmark.land solo · ongoing

A link garden — personal bookmarking tool that keeps URLs alive with snapshots and lets me tag and search them locally. Slow web philosophy.

slow web elixir · litefs
❦ archive

2020 · Hearth Notify · 2019 · plot.sh · 2018 · meridian · 2017 · paper-trail