SELECT FOR UPDATE considered harmful in PostgreSQL
This article tells you why SELECT FOR UPDATE is almost always the wrong lock and that you should use SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE instead.
Rust: Optimizing integer to string conversions
Blog of Guillaume Gomez (Rust: Optimizing integer to string conversions)
Did contexts kill Phoenix?
Why didn't Phoenix take off? I ask whether contexts killed the momentum.
How We Onboarded Claude
Claude Code has completely changed the way we develop our app, Chorus, so much so that we now consider it one of our employees.
DRY, KISS and YAGNI | metayeti.net
This is an overview of arguably the most fundamental trinity of programming principles.
Balatro pair strategy (an LLM odyssey)
Using an LLM to optimize Balatro strategy
The PostgreSQL Locking Trap That Killed Our Production API (and How We Fixed It)
TL;DR A simple ALTER TABLE statement can bring down your production infrastructure if you’re not careful. This is the story of me waking up to production alerts while working on totally unrelated tasks (building slides for some business stuff), getting bambooz…
I met my sister for the first time
This weekend I said goodbye to an alternative version of me. Me, but as a familiar stranger. Separated by over 8000 kilometers, my sister and I have known of...
Max Leiter
Create /some-title-here-{id} URLs for recognizable links in Next.js
Average - Johan Halse
I managed to survive the rise and fall of the blockchain without writing a single goddamn word about it. So it is with a heavy heart I take to the keyboard this time, because as you probably surmised upon reading the B-word, this post is me finally waving my w…
Allocators are Monkeys With Typewriters
Recently I was looking at an issue on mimalloc, a "state-of-the-art" memory allocator developed by Microsoft. The issue was quite simple, developers wanted a way to preallocate a piece of memory and use it as mimalloc's heap. Seeing that mimalloc does not offe…
Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting
New research provides first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.
The Debugger is Here - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.
Running Python Code within .NET Projects
.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara
GitHub - psviderski/unregistry: Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry
Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry - psviderski/unregistry