Are we ready yet as a society to delete all code linters.

If you want to learn all about PlanetScale Metal from one of the people that created it, you're in luck! Richard Crowley explains in detail what it is, where it came from, and why it make MySQL even more blazingly fast. Go check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=3r9PsV…

Prepped for RailsConf

Sometimes, the really important stuff is hidden in an innocuous section of the docs. #TheMoreYouKnow #Sidekiq github.com/sidekiq/sideki…

I am upset and angry and triggered! May not recover

“I sat at my laptop until it felt like my eyes would bleed” = scary, concerning, are you okay? “Shipped 12 PRs, launched a product and increased revenue by 12%” = graceful, sophisticated, congratulations

Good morning. We shipped something

You may be surprised to see PlanetScale for Postgres but you shouldn't be surprised it's hella fast. Convex commit latency after switching our backing store from RDS to PlanetScale Metal:

New bio

The weather this time of year in Philly generally changes a lot day to day so take the forecast for RailsConf with a grain of salt. Here's my suggestions for anyone traveling from outside the east coast:

A repo with pre-commit hooks

If the recruiter mentions “radford” you know you’re getting low balled

dax The 25-second feedback loop delay for LLM agents is not enough to do anything else of substance before you have to lock back in and act as code director, but it’s the perfect amount of time to pick up a dumbbell and get in four reps per arm. We might just keep getting hotter.

Go see Mike Coutermarsh at RailsConf tomorrow! You can get a database hat & some awesome stickers!

Swing by the PlanetScale booth if you're at Rails Conf this week!

migrated our production database with 30k user, 100k documents, 1 million visits to PlanetScale Postgres in <24 hours tl;dr 0. sam slides into my dm 1. pg_restore schema to ps 2. setup logical replication from neon to ps 3. swap env credentials in Vercel full story ↓

railsconf was great. Talking databases in person all week reminded me of how terrible this website has become. People in person are far cooler.

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