After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-b…
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been reverted, and some of them quite late in the beta period. I have been on the receiving end of some of that, as the developer or committer of some of those features, and have gotten some questions about it, and so I want to take…
I deleted half of a 2M-row table and the file stayed at 137 MB, through DELETE and through VACUUM. Only VACUUM FULL brought it to 68 MB. Plus DELETE against TRUNCATE, and what fillfactor does to updates.
Setting archive_command to /bin/true can silently lose PostgreSQL data. In this blog post, Shaun Thomas shows how WAL, checkpoints, and PITR work, and what a missing segment does.
Sharing is (not always) caring. PgBouncer pooling modes in practice - Event-Driven.io
The sad thing about programming is that eventually we reach production; the closer we get, the nastier things get. Some people start asking, Will it scale?, and some even…
Understanding the differences between PgBouncer and Amazon RDS Proxy for PostgreSQL connection pooling | Amazon Web Services
Compare Amazon RDS Proxy and PgBouncer for PostgreSQL connection pooling on AWS. This post explains how each pooler handles pooling modes, authentication, failover, and session-state pinning, and gives you a framework to choose between a fully managed service and a self-managed pooler.
TanStack AI is a strongly typed set of libraries for adding AI features to your apps. Part 1 of this intro covers basic setup and prompting, streaming responses, persisting threads to your database, and resuming a response after a mid-stream refresh.
Reason Network: let your agents talk to each other
Reason Network puts every coding agent on your team on one peer-to-peer network: Grok Bot and Muse ask Claude Code, Codex and any other agent for work, and your teammates' agents join so live work doesn't collide. Free, on an open-source engine.
kiruna-labs/petal: Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant's desktop.
Petal: low-latency, multi-window screensharing for macOS and Windows. Every shared window becomes a real native window on every participant's desktop. - kiruna-labs/petal
Markpad - Simple Markdown Editor & Notepad Alternative
A simple, lightweight markdown viewer, editor, and tabbed Notepad alternative for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The perfect simple text editor with real-time markdown preview.