When I was younger I thought if I designed such a great architecture I could implement persistence ignorance, something my colleagues hadn’t succeeded at. Now older I’ve learned that a programmer building services believing they don’t need to know how their DB works is foolish.

If you were being heckled for selling arms to a Government that has killed or injured over 100,000 civilians, you’d surely be minded to show just a little empathy. But then again, this is quite clearly a changed Labour Party. #Gaza

Starmer: “Every child, every person, deserves to be respected” Speech Heckler: “Does that include the children of Gaza?” Starmer: “This guy obviously got a pass for the 2019 conference” Starmer makes a very good point. Back in 2019, Labour once cared about preventing genocide.

Someone heckles Keir Starmer about the mass slaughter of children in Gaza. Starmer laughs and suggests he got his pass from the 2019 Labour conference. Genuinely vile behaviour.

The upper middle class yearns for public transit but without poor people

With PGlite + ElectricSQL sync you can build an issue tracker handling 100k issues + 500k comments, synced from Postgres to PGlite in the browser! Super fast UI updates with all writes going though the local database, and Postgres FTS in PGlite for search 🔥

every time I go to a swe’s house, I steal their copy of DDIA to see how long it takes them to notice it’s missing. I’ve done this over 20 times and nobody’s caught on. That’s why the modern web is trash! Nobody reads this book, they just buy it and post it for clout.

Blog post coming soon about "sync engines vs local-first". TLDR: Most people interested in local-first are probably best of with a sync engine. Building an app that's fully local-first (according to the seven ideals) is a lot more work.

It’s the stupid management of the stupid economy, stupid. It would be good if this provoked a modicum of introspection in the centre-left mainstream of economics.

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ElectricSQL is now in BETA! We're a Postgres sync engine. Check out our new 1 million clients benchmark and demos: electric-sql.com/blog/2024/12/1… Electric is ready to sync with companies like Trigger.dev, Otto and DOORBOOST using us in production. If you haven't checked

Am a super proud dad today! Oldest son launched his first product, the Ohr-1 a decibel meter for noisy people. ohrlabs.com

I have spent the past year creating a new ambisonic mixing server panaudia.com It can add spatial audio to any immersive web space with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you would like to try it out or have questions please get in touch.

Another proud dad moment! - tomorrow, for those of you into Open Source neutronic modelling, KicA will be presenting his poster at a conference at MIT ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/jak…

LLMs are generating code. That code is imperatively fetching data. That leads to a big ball of spaghetti. Here's how to untangle it: electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04/2…

Build collaborative apps with CRDTs straight outta Postgres using the new Yjs Electric provider 🧵 npmjs.com/package/@elect…

🚨 Big news! We’ve been collaborating with the legendary Tanner Linsley and the TanStack team to build something new: TanStack DB — a reactive, normalized, transactional state engine that extends TanStack Query.

🧵The Sync for Agents lineup at Sync Conf is 🔥 with Lee Byron from OpenAI , swyx 🗽 @aidotengineer AIE CODE from Cognition, and sunil pai from Cloudflare.

🚀 TanStack DB 0.5 is here with Query-Driven Sync Your component's query IS the API call. No custom endpoints. No GraphQL resolvers. Just write your query and DB figures out exactly what to fetch. Details 🧵👇

We've just shipped query driven sync for TANSTACK DB! Huge lift to get here - this is the DX I dreamed of when I started working on sync. Define where data comes from (anywhere!) as collections, and then query over those collections in your components. 🪄🎉