How We Fixed YAML Comment Preservation in Ruby (And Why We Sponsored It)
Discourse solved a five-year infrastructure headache by sponsoring psych-pure, a Ruby YAML library that preserves comments through programmatic edits - keeping years of hard-won institutional knowledge intact.
What Does INSERT 0 1 Actually Tell You? | My DBA Notebook
If you’ve ever run an insert statement in a terminal or an IDE, you’ve seen it: the cryptic insert 0 1 message. While it looks like a bit of ancient binary, it’s actually a precise status report from the database engine.
The Anatomy of a Command Tag 🔗In PostgreSQL, every successful command returns a “Command Tag.” For an insertion, the format is: INSERT [oid] [rows]
The “0” (oid1): Historically, Postgres could assign an internal Object ID to every row.
Read efficiency issues in Postgres queries - pgMustard
A lot of the time in database land, our queries are I/O constrained. As such, performance work often involves reducing the number of page reads. Indexes are a prime example, but they don’t solve every issue (a couple of which we’ll now explore).
Writing custom RuboCop rules in 2026—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Write and ship modern custom RuboCop cops in 2026: learn the new plugin system, requires_gem API, InternalAffairs best practices, safe autocorrection nuances, and design trade-offs for building robust, future-proof lint rules.
Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library
Practical patterns for mocking in Go without external libraries. Learn to mock functions, methods, interfaces, HTTP calls, and time using only the standard library