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Notes on durable software and careful practice.

Longer posts, useful links, short notes, and quotations — kept in the order they were found.

post systems

A personal archive should be easier to leave than to maintain. This one starts with Markdown, Git, and a database we are always willing to throw away.

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SQLite as an application file format

https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

SQLite’s case for using a database as a document format is also a useful test for publishing systems: can the generated artifact be copied, inspected, and read without keeping an application server alive? A single database makes the search index disposable without making it opaque.

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Write the recovery command while the system is still working. Future you needs a trail of dry stones across the river, not a perfect map drawn from memory.

Field note dated 2026-07-24

Quotation from John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture