§ Notes

A quiet corner for reading, writing, and the occasional side project.

About

This is a small personal site. I mostly keep track of books I'm working through, tools I enjoy, and short technical notes I want to be able to find again. Nothing here is polished — it's more of a lab notebook than a blog.

Currently reading

Mar 2026

The Pragmatic Programmer

Re-read. Still holds up, especially the chapters on orthogonality.
Feb 2026

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Taking it slowly — one chapter a week with notes on the side.

Short notes

2026-03-18

Rediscovering rsync --link-dest

Incremental backups without paying for the full copy each time. Obvious in hindsight.
2026-02-27

A small shell prompt rewrite

Dropped the git-status block and the prompt is a lot less noisy.
2026-02-09

Finally learning awk

Not "all of it". Just the two or three things I keep reaching for.