#open-source
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 Thing That Learned to Forget Its Own AddressOctober 21, 2026
What happens when a tool ecosystem gets acquired mid-flight, and what that says about where infrastructure trust actually lives.