Independent web notebook

Northstar Notes

Short essays about resilient software, careful infrastructure, and quiet tools that keep working when the network gets complicated.

Operations

Checklists, deployment notes, and small production habits for services that should be boring in the best possible way.

Systems

Notes on boundaries, observability, and keeping public surfaces simple enough to reason about.

Field Logs

Plain-language writeups from maintenance windows, migrations, and post-incident cleanups.