sys-design

What's the point of retrying an API call?

Published on January 5, 2026

There are strategies that we use on our code for so long that we forget why they were created in the first place. I had a discussion on this point, why we need the retry APIs that never fail, how you even debate affirmations like that? Let me tell you a story!

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hello word! My first post here

Published on January 1, 2026

This is my first post about finally killing the overengineered blog dream and building something simple as hell: Cloudflare for hosting, Go with templ for HTML, Tailwind for CSS, and a dumb but effective bash script to turn markdown into static pages in a minute. No bloated generators, no AWS circus, no SEO-punished JS nonsense—just write, build, ship 💥. The design leans into Neobrutalism, inspired by post-war brutalist architecture: raw, unapologetic, and not here to look pretty 🤘.

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