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.

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

• ⓝ 046 — Negative, I am a YAML wrangler _{October 8, 2025}
• ⓝ 045 — Postgres 18 _{September 28, 2025}
• ⓝ 044 — STRAAT, iPhone Air _{September 22, 2025}

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

• 🐚 The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone _{July 15, 2025}
• 🐚 Occasionally injected clocks in Postgres _{June 29, 2025}
• 🐚 Testing the graceful handling of request cancellation in Go, 499s _{June 19, 2025}

Once in a while, I write longer form articles:

• 📖 Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go _{May 28, 2024}
• 📖 The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres _{May 5, 2024}
• 📖 Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields _{May 4, 2024}

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

• 📷 099 — Ambon _{October 16, 2025}
• 📷 098 — Over the hill _{October 8, 2025}
• 📷 097 — Loback Meat Co. _{September 28, 2025}

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