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What I’m up to.

last edit · 18 may 2026 · pulled from ~/.now

Working on

Shipping healthcare-platform v0.5 — adding multi-tenant clinic support and running a small HIPAA-style audit on the data layer.

Mentoring three backend juniors at One Beyond through their first production deploys — mostly “this looks fine, but here’s what happens at 3am” reviews.

Reading

  • currentlyDesigning Data-Intensive Apps — Kleppmannpg 412 / 590
  • nextThe Staff Engineer's Path — Reidon shelf
  • finishedThe Pragmatic Programmer (re-read)apr '26

Listening

  • on repeatBonobo · Migrationalbum
  • backgroundKhruangbin · Mordechaialbum
  • deploy daysAphex Twin · Selected Ambient Works IIalbum

Last five commits

  • 14h agofeat(scheduler): fix timezone drift in patient slotsmain
  • 2dchore(redis): bump TTL on session cachemain
  • 3dfix(graphql): dataloader keys stale on retrymain
  • 5ddocs(infra): note on Helm rollout windowsmain
  • 1wrefactor(auth): split JWT verify into pure fnmain

Off-keyboard

Cycling more of Madrid before summer makes it unwise. Rosa, the Pi, is humming at 41°C. Coffee count for the week: 27.

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