Building
DevProxy v2 — rebuilding the proxy core around io_uring, with TLS termination and per-route circuit breakers. The v1 epoll loop taught me where the syscall overhead lives; v2 is about removing it without losing the debuggability that made v1 worth operating.
Reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (a re-read — the chapters on consistency read differently after you have shipped a distributed cache), and Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, which keeps turning out to be an operations manual in disguise.
Thinking about
The gap between what systems are designed to do and what they actually do under pressure — and how the same gap shows up in people, organizations, and schedules. Intent does not propagate. Consequences do.