brandur / aerie

Tiny app for storing and sharing a photo stream.

Hi, I'm Brandur.

I like databases, the independent web, and fast interfaces. I write in full sentences on Slack and use emoticons instead emoji. I think the modern web took a wrong turn on its evolutionary path and that we should resurrect ideas from the earlier days of computing — less centralization, software that's harder to learn but more powerful, and wider technical literacy.

My personal website is here and I'm on Twitter at @brandur.

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I'm a sometimes writer. Most frequently by publishing a newsletter called Nanoglyph (which you should sign up for :). Here are its latest issues:

• ⓝ 041 — 15, 16 _{November 17, 2023}
• ⓝ 040 — Rails World, 7.1, Amsterdam _{October 14, 2023}
• ⓝ 039 — Trails, Charleston, t.Parallel() _{October 7, 2023}

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I put other stream of consciousness thoughts into tiny blog posts called fragments:

• 🐚 Heroku on two standard dynos? _{May 11, 2024}
• 🐚 Activating cached feature flags instantly with notify triggers _{May 9, 2024}
• 🐚 Shiki _{May 9, 2024}

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Once in a while, I write longer form articles:

• 📖 The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres _{May 5, 2024}
• 📖 Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields _{May 4, 2024}
• 📖 River: a Fast, Robust Job Queue for Go + Postgres _{November 20, 2023}

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As often as I can, I post a daily photo and update to sequences:

• 📷 078 — Lights over Friedrichshain _{May 9, 2024}
• 📷 077 — Cubes inside cubes _{May 8, 2024}
• 📷 076 — Five Elephants _{May 5, 2024}

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