# Lorbic

> Decoding the mechanics of high-performance systems.

This file provides guidance for Large Language Models on how to best use the content from Lorbic.

## About This Site

- [About Page](https://lorbic.com/about/index.md): Learn about the purpose and creator of this website.
- [Sitemap](https://lorbic.com/sitemap.xml): Complete list of all pages on the site.

## Content Organization

### Documentation & Reference
- [Posts](https://lorbic.com/posts/index.md): Technical deep dives, tutorials, and engineering insights on Go, system design, performance, and databases.
- [Series](https://lorbic.com/series/index.md): Multi-part article series organized by topic.
- [Today I Learned (TIL)](https://lorbic.com/til/index.md): Quick reference notes on specific tools, concepts, and discoveries.
- [Apps & Developer Utilities](https://lorbic.com/apps/index.md): Client-side WebAssembly developer utilities (Post-Quantum Hashes, JWT Debugger, JSON/YAML/TOML Converter, Unix Epoch Timestamps).

### Browse by Topic
- [Categories](https://lorbic.com/categories/index.md): Posts grouped by engineering discipline (Backend, DevOps, Web Performance, etc.).
- [Tags](https://lorbic.com/tags/index.md): Posts indexed by specific technologies, languages, and frameworks (Go, Docker, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, etc.).

## Recent Posts (Latest 10)
- **[The eMudhra CA Compromise and Exit from Public SSL/TLS](https://lorbic.com/emudhra-ca-compromise-web-pki/index.md)** — In October 2026, private keys for eight intermediate Certificate Authorities belonging to eMudhra …
- **[Writing Has Been My Best Teacher](https://lorbic.com/writing-has-been-my-best-teacher/index.md)** — When I write code, it is remarkably easy to fool myself into thinking I understand something when I …
- **[How Go Channels Actually Work](https://lorbic.com/go-channels-deep-dive/index.md)** — A single unbuffered channel send without an active receiver is enough to silently lock up a …
- **[Part 6: Simulating a Living Facility: Room Derivation, Sunlight Spillover, and Positional SFX](https://lorbic.com/modular-missions-floodfill-audio-raylib/index.md)** — Generating a raw matrix of integer tiles gives you a map layout, but it doesn’t give you a …
- **[Designing a Distributed Job Scheduler in Go: Partitioning, Locking, and Backpressure](https://lorbic.com/designing-a-distributed-job-scheduler/index.md)** — Linux crontab is one of the most elegant pieces of software ever written for single-host automation. …
- **[Part 5: From Terminal Cells to Sprite Maps: Font Fallbacks and Auto-Tiling](https://lorbic.com/autotiling-sprites-font-fallbacks-raylib/index.md)** — Building a terminal-based engine in pure ASCII looks cool for about five minutes. Then you try …
- **[Part 4: Refactoring to SoA ECS: Bitmasks and Flat Component Arrays](https://lorbic.com/structure-of-arrays-ecs-bitmasks-golang/index.md)** — When I started building Derelict Facility, my initial instinct for game actors was standard …
- **[Designing a Usage-Based Billing Pipeline for SaaS](https://lorbic.com/designing-a-usage-based-billing-pipeline-for-saas/index.md)** — In How Multi-Tenant SaaS Actually Works, I left one major promise unfulfilled at the end: …
- **[Couchbase Index Best Practices and Query Performance Tuning](https://lorbic.com/couchbase-index-best-practices-performance-tuning/index.md)** — Most Couchbase performance tickets I have seen end the same way: someone adds more nodes, the …
- **[API Design for Backend Systems](https://lorbic.com/api-design-for-backend-systems/index.md)** — A few weeks ago I designed Relay, a multi-tenant AI API gateway, as a system design exercise. That …

## Usage Notes

- **Markdown Versions**: Append `index.md` to any post URL to get the raw markdown content
- **Full Content**: See `llms-full.txt` for complete articles without summaries
- **GEO Metadata**: Each post includes citation format, license (CC BY 4.0), and fact-verification status
- **Search**: Use the sitemap to find posts by topic or browse organized sections above