Fernando Borretti
Fernando Borretti
Fernando Borretti
I’m a software engineer. In my free time I write code, a blog, fiction, and build a programming language.
Latest Posts
You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
On Hacker News and Lobsters I often see blog posts with titles like: Why I built my startup on Common Lisp and DragonflyBSD Rewriting PyTorch in APL (year six update) I will...
I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write...
My Backup Infrastructure, 2025 Edition
tl;dr two portable SSDs, synced with rsync; and a Backblaze bucket synced with restic: I’m finally satisfied with my infrastructure for backups, so I’m writing it up so others...
We Live In a Golden Age of Interoperability
Yesterday I was reading Exploring the Internet, an oral history of the early Internet. The first part of the book describes the author’s efforts to publish the ITU’s Blue Book:...
Domain-Agnostic and Domain-Specific Tools
This post is, in a sense, a continuation to Unbundling Tools for Thought. It’s an argument for why you shouldn’t try to use a single tool to do everything, aimed at people who...