Tyler Hillery

English was my least favorite subject throughout school.

SQL.

Something finally clicked for me.

I am building a cloud I like computers.

PgBouncer is a connection pooler for Postgres.

I’ve been ramping up on Node.js for my new team at Supabase, and I’ve learned the first rule of Node.js club: Don’t block the event loop.

I noticed the SQLite query below had an average duration of ~90ms. select package_name, package_summary from pypi_packages where package_name like ?

I’m setting up my homelab and one of my goals is zero-touch provisioning, plug in a machine and have it install itself over the network.

I used AI to add a feature to mise, an open source tool (written in Rust) that manages installations of other tools.

This weekend’s rabbit hole was a wild one.

The future of software engineering is SRE This post made the rounds recently, landing on the front page of Hacker News and all over my Twitter “For You” feed.

There is nothing more embarrassing sharing a link with someone with a bunch of utm query parameters https://www.tylerhillery.com/?

As I have been making my way through the learn section on the Node.js website, I came across a pleasant surprise in the Backpressuring in Streams section: That’s right, dtrace mentioned!

I want to walk through how I went about debugging this issue and how git bisect was crucial for pinpointing the exact commit that caused it.

Change Computing Forever: Computing is our shared passion; our calling is to advance the state of the art, bringing those advances to the broadest possible audience.

I understand many people just want access to the underlying data and not my beautiful chart.

Inbox zero is a methodology of email management with the goal of having zero emails in your inbox.

Much of the hype about AI tools for programming often comes from two ends of a spectrum, those who don’t know programming and those who already have deep expertise.

Overview As a learning exercise to explore web development, I built PyPack Trends, a web app to compare python package downloads inspired by npm trends.

There’s nothing more exhilarating than knowing one SQL query could end up costing you $2,750.