miniblog.

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball. By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.

It is remarkably hard to escape command line arguments safely on Windows, and the standard libraries of multiple languages have needed patching: https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/

It feels like a mature software project is one where bugs require multiple commits to fix. You've hammered out the basic issues, so the remaining issues are often weird interactions between components.