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🐘 Effortless PostgreSQL backups with a user-friendly web interface! 🌐💾 - eduardolat/pgbackweb

People tend to think that a SELECT-operation is always a read. This might look obvious and make sense but does it actually hold true?

A deep dive at the technical details of how Neon estimates the Postgres working set size to keep the working set in memory via autoscaling.

In this post, you’ll learn a recipe that you can use to “shrink” a large table. This is a good fit when only a portion of the data is accessed, the big table has become unwieldy, and you don’t want a heavier solution like table partitioning.

Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed. - robinmoisson/staticrypt

We've migrated our three frontend projects from Parcel to Vite, and the process was... smooth.

In order to achieve maximum contrast in design, interface designers often use a combination of pure black and white colors, which helps…

A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website.

Learn how to use display contents to build more fluid layouts.

Octoshark is an ActiveRecord connection manager.

🔄👷 ActiveJob with SQS & Lambda.

Alchemy is the Open Source Rails CMS framework for the component based web that can be used as classic server side rendered or headless CMS. - AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms

Make use of recursive queries in Rails when using Postgresql or SQLite

A Ruby Gem that adds annotations to your Rails models and route files. - drwl/annotaterb

Optimized top-N-per-group Active Record associations using lateral joins

In June, Elliot Winkler (@mcmire on Github) announced that he is retiring from open-source. Among other projects, Elliot wrote and maintained the Ruby gem super_diff, which we’ve found quite helpfu…

cache_key_with_version is a method used in Ruby on Rails to generate a cache key for a model object that includes its version number. This method is helpful for ensuring cache consistency, as it combines the object’s unique ID, updated timestamp, and a version number to create a unique cache key.

We often use Dotenv in Rails for managing environment variables in development. But both Kamal and Dotenv works with .env files by default. Let’s see how to solve this conflict.

— Jarred Sumner (@jarredsumner)

Hello friends! Today we start a series on improving JRuby startup time using the new OpenJDK Project CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint)! If that sounds intriguing, read on!

Explore how the 'delete' operator works in JavaScript, what it can remove, and its limitations when handling object properties and variables.

Learn about the new Performance Panel in Chrome DevTools, and see how it can help with optimizing Core Web Vitals

Comparing five implementations built with FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and FastAPI+Svelte

Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.6! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by adding syntax for types. Types describe the shapes we expect of our variables, parameters, and functions, and the TypeScript type-checker can help catch issues like typos, missing properties, and […]

Should web developers and JavaScript library authors still transpile their code to ES5? This post looks at what the data suggests based on what popular libraries, tools, and websites are doing

The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...) - open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler

Dive into the 9 special routing files in Next.js App Router. We break down each file's purpose and spotlight crucial tips to boost performance and structure.

TanStack Router is a comprehensive JavaScript framework for client-side applications, emphasizing type-safe routing and navigation. It includes nested layouts and efficient data loading.

We have decided to wind down Astro Studio and open up Astro DB to connect to any libSQL database, including Turso. Read on to hear what comes next for Astro and Astro DB.