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notes on building hlog, and on keeping a log. rss

• 9 nov 2026 Building an append-only journal on Cloudflare Workers and D1
  hlog is a log for humans: short, timestamped lines that can't be edited. Here's how the database enforces that, why one SQL function decides what's public everywhere, and the bugs that only showed up in production.
• 7 nov 2026 Why I'm building hlog
  An old idea from my archives: what if people kept a log the way servers do? One line at a time, from the command line, append-only, private until you share, with no likes and no counts. The process is the product.