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• Thinking Through Writing — Clarity Comes From the Page ♪ Listenable

  Writing is not a tool for recording finished thoughts; it is a tool for producing them. Through concrete methods and routines — design docs, memos, the Feynman technique, writing in public — this essay shows how the act

  2026-06-16 · 22 min read #culture#writing#thinking#productivity#learning

• Which Work Makes the Biggest Impact — Prioritizing by Impact

  Being busy and being important are different things. The definition of impact, ICE and RICE for weighing effort against effect, the important-vs-urgent matrix, choosing what not to do, the trap of local optimization, and

  2026-06-16 · 13 min read #career#productivity#prioritization#impact#mindset

• Comparing Schema Migration Tools — Flyway, Liquibase, golang-migrate, Alembic, and Atlas

  A comparison of the major schema migration tools — Flyway, Liquibase, golang-migrate, Alembic, and Atlas — across their models, version control, checksums, rollback, and CI integration. We examine the difference between

  2026-06-16 · 14 min read #database#migration#flyway#liquibase#tooling

• Migration Rollback and Verification — Designing a Safety Net ♪ Listenable

  This post explores why rollback is hard in database migrations, and how to distinguish reversible changes from irreversible ones. It covers backups and recovery points, multi-stage verification, canary rollout, feature f

  2026-06-16 · 23 min read #database#migration#rollback#verification#feature-flag

• Online Schema Changes on Large Tables — gh-ost, pt-online-schema-change, and Native Online DDL ♪ Listenable

  Run an ALTER against a table with hundreds of millions of rows and your service can grind to a halt. This post walks through the limits of MySQL native Online DDL, how trigger-based pt-online-schema-change and binlog-bas

  2026-06-16 · 21 min read #database#mysql#postgresql#migration#gh-ost

• Cross-Engine Database Migration — From Oracle to PostgreSQL (and Beyond) ♪ Listenable

  We unpack cross-engine database migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL, starting with the real motivations of licensing and cloud. The post covers the differences between PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL, compatibility gaps in data type

  2026-06-16 · 19 min read #postgresql#oracle#database#migration#ora2pg

• Moved to culture/assume-good-intent-trust (en)

  This post has moved to the culture category. See culture/2026-06-16-assume-good-intent-trust.en.

  2026-06-16 · 1 min read #mindset#collaboration#trust#teamwork

• Unicode and UTF-8: The Text Encoding Minefield

  Bytes, code points, and grapheme clusters are three different layers. Why the length of a single emoji lies, what separates UTF-8 from UTF-16 and UTF-32, NFC/NFD normalization and the é problem, ZWJ-joined emoji, surroga

  2026-06-16 · 11 min read #unicode#text#fundamentals

• Moved to culture/motivation-why-it-matters (en)

  This post has moved to the culture category. See culture/2026-06-16-motivation-why-it-matters.en.

  2026-06-16 · 1 min read #mindset#motivation#leadership#purpose

• Moved to culture/maximizing-your-strengths (en)

  This post has moved to the culture category. See culture/2026-06-16-maximizing-your-strengths.en.

  2026-06-16 · 1 min read #mindset#strengths#career#growth

• AI Hardware Research Trends 2026 — The Future Through the Papers ♪ Listenable

  A field-by-field review of where AI hardware research is heading in 2026. From wafer-scale and photonics, compute-in-memory, FP4 low-precision training, sparsity and MoE hardware, optical interconnect, next-generation me

  2026-06-16 · 19 min read #ai-papers#ai-hardware#photonics#compute-in-memory#low-precision

• Office Hidden Features and Cross-App Integration — Tips That Buy You Time ♪ Listenable

  A practical roundup of lesser-known Microsoft 365 Office features and how to wire Word, Excel, and PowerPoint together. It covers shortcuts, clipboard history, screen clipping, paste links, mail merge, PDF editing, autos

  2026-06-15 · 18 min read #office#productivity#microsoft-365#integration#copilot

• Mastering Excel Modern Functions in 2026 — From Dynamic Arrays to GROUPBY

  A practical guide to the latest Microsoft 365 Excel functions, organized around real-world examples. From dynamic arrays and the spill concept to XLOOKUP, FILTER, LET, LAMBDA, GROUPBY/PIVOTBY, and regular expression func

  2026-06-15 · 12 min read #excel#productivity#dynamic-array#lambda#groupby

• PowerPoint Pro Techniques — Design, Shortcuts, and Fast Workflows

  A practical guide to building fast, polished slides in PowerPoint. Learn shortcuts, design principles, the Slide Master, alignment and distribution, icons and charts, presenter tools, accessibility, and collaboration so

  2026-06-15 · 16 min read #powerpoint#productivity#office#design#shortcuts

• Automating Data Cleaning with Power Query — Reports That Refresh in One Click

  A step-by-step guide to automating data import and transformation with Power Query. Covers combining folders, merging and appending queries, parameters, a taste of the M language, refresh automation and its limits, plus

  2026-06-15 · 9 min read #excel#productivity#power-query#etl#data-cleaning

• Word Productivity — Styles, Shortcuts, and Long-Document Automation

  A practical guide to automating long reports in Microsoft Word using styles, shortcuts, tables of contents, captions and cross-references, headers and footers, advanced find and replace, the review tools, and mail merge.

  2026-06-15 · 15 min read #word#productivity#office#styles#shortcuts

• Master Excel Shortcuts — Leave the Mouse Behind

  A category-by-category guide to the shortcuts that determine your Excel speed. With both Windows and Mac keys listed, plus practical workflow combos, mistake-reducing habits, and a practice routine, you can cut your reli

  2026-06-15 · 12 min read #excel#productivity#shortcuts#keyboard#office

• Operator vs Helm vs GitOps — Which to Use When ♪ Listenable

  These three operational tools look similar but solve different problems. Helm is packaging, GitOps is declarative synchronization, and an Operator is an active controller. We dig into static deployment versus continuous

  2026-06-15 · 19 min read #kubernetes#operator#helm#gitops#argocd

• Operator Security — Least-Privilege RBAC, Multi-Tenancy, Supply Chain ♪ Listenable

  An Operator runs cluster-wide with powerful privileges, so a single compromise can endanger the whole cluster. This article covers Operator security end to end — generating least-privilege RBAC with markers, choosing Rol

  2026-06-15 · 21 min read #kubernetes#operator#rbac#security#supply-chain

• Operator Observability — Metrics, Events, Logging, and SLOs ♪ Listenable

  A deep dive into observability for Kubebuilder-based Operators across metrics, events, logging, tracing, status/conditions, and SLOs. From the meaning of controller-runtime default metrics to adding custom metrics, wirin

  2026-06-15 · 19 min read #kubernetes#operator#observability#prometheus#controller-runtime