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Runs the shelf. Writes most of what is on it.
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I build small web tools and keep them running, which is most of the work. Seven of them are on the shelf right now; two of those are quiet enough that I only touch them when a dependency forces me to, and one is a queue worker I finally turned off after four years.
Before this I spent nine years on other people’s infrastructure, mostly billing systems and the alerting around them. That is where the habits on this site come from: check the backup, send one page per incident, write the deploy note while you still remember the deploy.
Notes
- 2026-08-14Why the queue got expensivedata
- 2026-07-02Cutting a release by handbuild log
- 2026-06-18A status page should be boringtooling
- 2026-05-27The backup you never restored is not a backupinfra
- 2026-05-09Naming things after ropebuild log
- 2026-04-28What the shelf costs to runinfra
- 2026-04-15What shutting down Marlin taught me about deleting codeinfra
- 2026-03-21A spreadsheet is a database until it is notdata
- 2026-02-26One tab, one glancetooling
- 2026-01-30The week I deleted the dashboarddata
- 2026-01-09Staging URLs that expiretooling
- 2025-11-20Running seven things at oncebuild log