Notes on Rust, backend engineering, music production and guitar from Wojciech Bator.https://www.wojciechbator.me/en-ushttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/gatsby-to-astro/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/gatsby-to-astro/Migrated my personal site from Gatsby to Astro — mobile Lighthouse scores stabilized at 1.0s across all metrics, desktop improved from 0.7s to 0.4s LCP. Better tooling, active maintenance, and cleaner architecture.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringWebPerformancehttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/rabbitmq-tokio/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/rabbitmq-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.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringRusthttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/virya-website/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/virya-website/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.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringWebPerformancehttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/redis-8/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/redis-8/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.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringRustRedishttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/refaktor/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/refaktor/A few words about the new project I've joinedMon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTMusicBandshttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/virya/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/virya/A modern metal band fusing metalcore with unexpected influencesWed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTMusicBandshttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/singularity/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/singularity/Humanity reaching for the edge of what's possibleFri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTMusicInstrumentalhttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/nightingale/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/nightingale/How I cut my way through the jungle as a solo artist and producerWed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTMusicSolohttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/patronite/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/patronite/The platform where you can back artists directlyFri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTSupportMusichttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/bandcamp/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/bandcamp/The platform where you can support me by buying the musicSun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTSupportMusichttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/guitar/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/guitar/The long-awaited Lootnick Singularity guitar is finally hereTue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTGearhttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/arkham/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/arkham/Writing the music and sound design for radio playsMon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTCollaborationMusichttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/new-gear/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/new-gear/The armory has been getting busy lately with new toys and gearWed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTGearhttps://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/about/https://www.wojciechbator.me/blog/about/I'm Wojciech Bator — but you probably knew that already. Want a few facts?Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTCareer