Slow build lab
Notes on systems, latency, and the long way around. I write down what I measure, mostly so the next version of me does not repeat the same three mistakes.
Recent notes
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The cost of a cold connection
2026-10-14
What a first byte actually costs when nothing is cached, and why the number moves around so much between two in the morning and eight in the evening.
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Build times are a design smell
2026-09-28
A repository that takes four minutes to tell you it did not compile is telling you something about its structure, not its hardware.
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A small home lab, three years in
2026-08-30
Three machines under a desk: what stayed, what went back to the shop, and the one purchase that actually changed how I work.
What this is
A place to keep measurement notes, half-finished experiments and the occasional postmortem. No newsletter, no tracking, no comments. Pages are static and will stay that way.