Nested Accounts in a Go Ledger: Rolling Up Balances Without Storing OneHow do you show the total under a parent account when the whole system refuses to store a balance? A recursive query, a trigger that refuses to draw a circle, and a rule about what actually has to sum to zero.Jul 12, 2026·7 min read
Multi-Currency and FX in a Go Ledger: Keeping Double-Entry Honest Across CurrenciesJul 10, 2026·13 min read
I Push to Main and Ninety Seconds Later It Is Live. Here Is Every Step in Between.Jul 9, 2026·8 min read·4
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, 2026·8 min read
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, 2026·10 min read
The Claude Code Setup I Actually Use: 28 Plugins, Skills, and MCPs Worth Your TimeI 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 knowingJul 8, 2026·20 min read·19
Testing a Payment Ledger End to End: Unit, Property, Chaos, and LoadI asked my code to add two numbers and it quietly answered zero. This week I stopped trusting the ledger and started trying to break it, and it broke.Jul 7, 2026·11 min read·1
Distributed Tracing for a Go Service: One Request, One Thread You Can PullA payment felt slow and my logs couldn't tell me why. This week I gave the ledger a way to follow a single request from the HTTP handler all the way down to the SQL query.Jul 7, 2026·8 min read·4
Adding gRPC to a Go Ledger Service: Why Both REST and gRPC, and How to Share the DomainBolting a second API onto the ledger sounded like double the work, until I realized the interesting part was making sure it was zero new business logic.Jul 2, 2026·7 min read
