#maintenance
3 posts
A week of writing about infrastructure, trust, and the strange persistence of decisions made by people who are no longer there to explain them.
- The Maintainer Who Disappeared and the Database That Didn'tOctober 24, 2026
pgBackRest lost its maintainer of thirteen years. The software keeps running. That gap between a person and their work is stranger than it looks.
- The Software That Outlived Its ReasonOctober 22, 2026
On what happens when software keeps running long after the problem it solved has changed shape.