About
I'm Marcus, a backend engineer living in Prague. I spend most of my time writing Go and staring at Postgres query plans. Previously I worked on payment infrastructure at a fintech startup in Berlin and before that did consulting for a logistics company in Vienna.
This site is where I dump things I learn so I don't forget them. It's not a polished blog — more of a public notebook. If something here saves you an hour of debugging, that's a win.
What I work with
- Go, sometimes Rust for CLI tooling
- PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis
- NixOS for servers, macOS for dev
- Mostly Docker/Podman, sometimes plain systemd
- Grafana + Prometheus + Loki for observability
Contact
You can reach me by email at marcus at this domain. I don't use social media much, but I occasionally lurk on Lobsters and HN.
About this site
Plain HTML and CSS. No JavaScript, no analytics, no cookies. Hosted on a small VPS. The entire site is under 50 KB. I write posts in a text editor and deploy with rsync.