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I Built a Production Go Payment Ledger in 14 Weeks. Here's What I'd Do Differently.

Jul 14, 202611 min read11

Approval Workflows and an Outbox Event Stream in Go: Eventing Without Kafka

Jul 13, 202611 min read5

Big Problem With Your List: You Ain't on It

I had a solid list of reasons my life wasn't moving faster, until a grainy old lecture pointed out the one name missing from it

Jul 22, 20268 min read1

Nested Accounts in a Go Ledger: Rolling Up Balances Without Storing One

Jul 12, 20267 min read3

The Exchange Rate Was Hiding in an Environment Variable

Jul 12, 20269 min read3

I Audited My Own Ledger Like a Fintech Expert. It Failed.

A double-entry ledger that passed every test still had a bug that turned 100 dollars into 15 dollars, a chain that forked the moment you ran two copies, and no way to ever forget a customer. Here is the teardown, and the fix.

Jul 11, 202612 min read3

Multi-Currency and FX in a Go Ledger: Keeping Double-Entry Honest Across Currencies

You send 100 dollars, your friend abroad receives 92 euros, and a few cents seem to vanish into thin air. This week I built the currency exchange machinery that makes those cents go exactly where they should, and never anywhere else.

Jul 10, 202613 min read

I Push to Main and Ninety Seconds Later It Is Live. Here Is Every Step in Between.

No SSH, no checklist, no remembering the one command I always forget. Just git push, and production updates itself. This is exactly how that pipeline is wired, and how you can build the same one for a plain server.

Jul 9, 20268 min read4

The Server Lived in My Head. This Week I Wrote It Down.

My ledger has run in production for weeks on a box I set up by hand one evening and never wrote down properly. If it died, I would rebuild it from memory. That is not a plan, so I turned the memory into code.

Jul 9, 20268 min read3

I Audited My Own Payment Ledger Like It Held Real Money. The Front Door Was Wide Open.

The accounting math was bulletproof. Then I asked a harder question: what could someone do if they could just reach the API? The answer was, unfortunately, everything.

Jul 8, 202610 min read

The Claude Code Setup I Actually Use: 28 Plugins, Skills, and MCPs Worth Your Time

I spent months trying every Claude Code add-on I could find, and these are the seven I now refuse to code without, plus twenty-one more worth knowing

Jul 8, 202620 min read65

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