When I was 16, my mom opened a cease-and-desist letter from a Fortune 500 company addressed to her teenage son... I’d registered a domain with their trademark to boost my referral link. I immediately deleted it, and mom endured a tense call with their attorneys who warned, “You

Googled (feels so outdated…) a function name today, pg_total_relation_size, to get to the Postgres documentation. The first result was a perfect StackOverflow answer with a beautiful diagram exactly depicting what I wanted to know. Sad that SO is dying, but there are still

With or without AI, we’re still bad at estimation 😂

Using bind mounts for Docker containers in development/testing makes it easy to persist, inspect and snapshot a container’s data. It’s a small but welcome enhancement to my workflow.

This is a very very very good introduction to DSPy by Drew Breunig Drew is defining the Anatomy of a Prompt. Write Tasks not Prompts! link below

Fun to see primeagen covering “that XOR trick” today! You can extend this “trick” to 3 or many more missing numbers using Invertible bloom filters… check out my post to learn how: nochlin.com/blog/extending…

This is a great summary of the history of Go’s garbage collector, and a small glimpse into why Go became so prevalent in the distributed systems space so quickly

I love Go, my default for new projects, but I’ve under appreciated the engineering that makes it so productive and performant. Reading deep dives on the garbage collector (quoted tweet) and the scheduler (link) have given me a whole new respect for its magic under the hood:

Regular expressions originally sparked my interest in programming. And now I’m so excited that I can do web scraping *without* them (and without XML parsers either!). DSPy + Firecrawl allows me to write an agentic web scraper that can navigate to the data I want and

Manuel Simoni you can also use closures 😅

I tried Zellij and tmux, but still prefer old, basic and reliable GNU Screen 🤷‍♂️

Gunnar writes really accessible posts on postgres logical replication (from the CDC angle). It only just clicked for me I should go back and read all his posts on the subject since I work on a logical replication product and I could use the primer. This article is from today.