Writing

Blog

I'm building a company and a database at the same time, and writing about both. The engineering (Parquet layouts, benchmarks, what broke at 3am) and the rest of it: pricing an open-source product, first customers, saying no, and the parts of founding that nobody puts in a deck.

A managed collaboration layer of pull requests and review checks, separated by a dashed line from three boxes of infrastructure you own

Aug 19, 2026 Founding

The missing middle in code hosting

Managed Git hands you an outage you cannot fix and terms that change overnight. Self-hosting hands you identity, certificates, backups, and a pager. Almost nothing sits in between, which is the gap Basekick Git is built for.

Parquet row groups stacked along a time axis beneath a full-resolution ingest waveform

Aug 18, 2026 Founding

Starting over, in public

This site used to be about coaching. From here it is about founding a company and building a database at the same time: the engineering, the commercial decisions, and the parts I get wrong.