problem child engineering

Bicycle 🚲 is a framework for defining database schemas whose access patterns are generated as code and compiled into each server binary. [Read More]

So, I’ve been working on getting all the stuff set up for better DevEx around the current state of the database tool I’ve been working on. I’m gonna include some excerpts here and example usage from the in-house README, but am leaving off some of the less fleshed out parts.... [Read More]

Just checking back in on the cryptography stuff. Still feeling genuinely bad about that whole DeleteMessage thing. But ya live and ya learn and nobody got hurt, and at the end of the day, the imaginary boogeyman I’m trying to please is just me anyway. [Read More]

So, taking a step back from the project for a minute (phew… crisis averted on that stupid delete thing) I wanted to drop in some more philosophical shtuffs. Product, user behavior, events, storage, engineering, it’s all connected. The way a user engages with your app should inform how you store... [Read More]

Okay, so I realized a critical error a little bit ago that is like so “duh.” DeleteMessage currently just verifies the signature on the payload, and doesn’t verify any authorization because, currently the records are being stored such that there is no externally identifiable information about the user. So unless... [Read More]