I'm Brandur. This site is where I publish words and photos. The section updated most often is atoms, short multimedia particles reminiscent of a Twitter feed. I update my now page monthly according to what I'm working on and thinking about. I publish a newsletter as often as I can.
Rich, fully attributed context timeout errors in Go
June 10, 2026
Making Go’s generic context deadline exceeded errors traceable with small helpers that attribute the operation that timed out and indicate how long the timeout was.
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SQLite bulk insert with sqlc
June 6, 2026
Generating words? Keep them short.
June 5, 2026
It’s not possible to stop the torrent of LLM-generated content, but how about this as a simple ask: when generating content, keep it short.
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