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notes from the build

occasional write-ups on storage, payments, media infrastructure, and the parts of shipping product that aren't in the docs.

  1. May 14, 2026

    Why I open-source storage libraries

    Storage is the part of every product I've built that always needs the same primitives. Open-sourcing them lets me stop rebuilding the same things.

    • storage
    • open-source
    • philosophy
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  2. April 2, 2026

    FFmpeg workers: the parts nobody documents

    The four things that always go wrong the first time you ship an FFmpeg worker to production, and the parts of the docs that won't tell you about them.

    • ffmpeg
    • media
    • production
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