Essays and notes from Thomas Duquemin — cloud infrastructure, physics, tools, and whatever else is on my mind.https://thomasduquemin.com/en-ushttps://thomasduquemin.com/posts/hello/https://thomasduquemin.com/posts/hello/A site for the things I'd otherwise forget, and a small argument for keeping notes in public.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>For years my thinking has lived in three places: a task manager, a pile of half-finished notes, and my own head. The first two are private and the third is unreliable. This site is an attempt to put the durable parts somewhere I can find them again, and where someone else might find them useful.</p> <h2>What goes here</h2> <p><strong>Posts</strong> are the considered pieces. Something I've worked through enough to stand behind, whether that's an argument about how to run infrastructure or a walkthrough of a problem I finally understood.</p> <p><strong>Notes</strong> are everything else. A link with a sentence of context, a thought that isn't ready to be an argument, a thing I want to remember I thought.</p> <h2>The rules</h2> <ol> <li>Write the note when the thought happens, not later.</li> <li>Dates are honest. If I change my mind, the old post stays and a new one says so.</li> <li>No comments. If you disagree, email me. A conversation is better than a thread.</li> </ol> <p>That's the whole plan. Here's a small equation to prove the math rendering works, $E = mc^2$, and a code block to prove the highlighting does too:</p> <pre><code>def reading_time(words: int, wpm: int = 220) -&gt; int: return max(1, round(words / wpm)) </code></pre> <p>More soon.</p> metawritinghttps://thomasduquemin.com/notes/2026-09-13-first-note/https://thomasduquemin.com/notes/2026-09-13-first-note/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>First note. The bar for these is deliberately low: a paragraph, a link, a thought. If I wait until something is post-shaped I'll never write it.</p> meta