About

What This Is

blobstreaming is a developer journal and engineering lab notebook. It covers the practical side of building software — database patterns, caching strategies, tooling decisions — alongside the human side: burnout, career transitions, the daily grind of shipping code in teams that sometimes work and sometimes don’t.

The notes section contains technical memos. Short, direct, written for practitioners. The kind of thing you’d pin to a shared wiki at work if your team actually maintained one. Topics range from blob storage in MySQL to HTTP caching headers to SVG diagrams in documentation pipelines.

The essays section covers developer culture. What happens when you give programmers open offices. Why burnout hits mid-career engineers differently than juniors. How the industry’s hiring rituals affect the people going through them. These are longer pieces, opinion-heavy, grounded in the experience of working in this field for a long time.

What This Is Not

This is not an agency, a consultancy, or a SaaS product. There are no courses to sell. No newsletter pop-ups. No “schedule a call” buttons. It is a publication — writing about software engineering and the people who do it.

How to Read It

Start with Notes if you want something technical and immediate. Start with Essays if you want something to think about on the train home. The Topics page groups everything by theme if you’d rather browse.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or just want to say something? See the contact page.