I’m a software engineer at Braintree. I’ve spent much of my time there keeping the Braintree Gateway and its PostgreSQL databases reliable.
Some of that work has made its way upstream to PgBouncer.
I’m building clnkr, a coding agent CLI, to see how much implementation I can delegate to models and still understand, verify, and maintain the result. It's on the Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard. Every line of code is generated. This project has been as much an experiment in the practice as such as it has been a search for the author1.
you are constantly reminded of inaccessible strategies and paths not taken, voices not heard. Each decision will make some parts of the text more, and others less, accessible, and you may never know the exact results of your choices; that is, exactly what you missed
In personal and professional computering, the terminal is life.
I like to get lost in debugging. It’s a healthier escapism.