Stories by rmoff

Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026

Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026

Interacting with Developers on Reddit

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

Friction Logs (2018)

A Love Letter to Raycast

Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit

AI Smells on Medium

Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution

I've been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong

How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?

Interactive Kafka Streams Architecture Simulation

How we built the demo for the Current NOLA keynote using Kafka, Flink, and AI

Blog Writing for Developers (Talk)

Flink Watermarks WTF?

Datadog – Evolving our real-time timeseries storage

All-time classic conference talk: Wat

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

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