Blog
Recent news related to my bands, music, production, gear & thoughts
Rewriting our RabbitMQ client: Actix to pure Tokio
A full rewrite of our RabbitMQ pub/sub client — from an Actix actor model to pure Tokio. Less memory, fewer 3am alerts, and the codegen is open source.
Rebuilding virya.music: a sub-second band site with a merch store
Outside work I rebuilt my band's site from scratch and bolted on a real merch store — 100 across every Lighthouse audit, sub-second LCP on every page.
Redis 8 in the pricing path: store less, ask less
Upgrading to Redis 8 was a chance to rethink what we store and how we talk to it — ~2× lower latency, ~20% faster reindex, fewer round-trips.
Refaktor — my new two-man band
A few words about the new project I've joined
Virya
A modern metal band fusing metalcore with unexpected influences
Singularity
Humanity reaching for the edge of what's possible
The Nightingale — my solo debut
How I cut my way through the jungle as a solo artist and producer
Patronite — for patrons of the arts
The platform where you can back artists directly
A few words on Bandcamp
The platform where you can support me by buying the music
Lootnick Singularity — the axe
The long-awaited Lootnick Singularity guitar is finally here
Scoring for Arkham Radio
Writing the music and sound design for radio plays
A new tool in the armory
The armory has been getting busy lately with new toys and gear
An artist's résumé
I'm Wojciech Bator — but you probably knew that already. Want a few facts?