Just About Go Time

Sun, 10 May 2026 22:00:00 +0530

Time is an illusion. Or more accurately, time is a political consensus poorly masquerading as physics.

If you’ve ever seen Dylan Beattie’s “Plain Text” talk, you know that humans have spent centuries making data storage as complicated as possible. But text encoding has nothing on time zones.

As engineers, we like to pretend that time.Now() returns an objective truth. It doesn’t. It returns a snapshot of a highly contested, historically unstable set of political boundaries. In 2011, the island nation of Samoa decided they wanted to align their workweek with Australia rather than the United States. To do this, they didn’t just change their clocks; they completely skipped Friday, December 30th. At 11:59 PM on Thursday, the clock ticked over, and it was suddenly Saturday.

PostgreSQL Migrations in Go: Production Schema Patterns with Goose

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:00:00 +0530

Application code is stateless. You can tear down a container and spin up a new one in milliseconds without losing data. Databases are stateful. When you deploy new application logic that requires a new column, an index, or a table, you must transition the physical storage schema from state A to state B without destroying the underlying data or locking the system.

This process is a database migration. Working with databases is the kind of thing I will gladly skip dinner for (:

Golang on Lorbic

Just About Go Time

PostgreSQL Migrations in Go: Production Schema Patterns with Goose