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I turned 49 last week.

There’s a kind of shift occurring beneath software development right now.

I’ve been “busy” fiddling around with agentic coding using the Pi agent.

Last week I started working on a project, and this time I wanted to see what would happen if I did what all the “cool kids” are doing and “vibe coded” most of it.

Back when I was a Sophomore in High School, my incredibly astute power of observation noticed a couple friends playing a card game after finishing some work in our Russian class.

I turned 48 last week, and it was almost as uneventful as I’d hoped.

Well I’ve never prayed, but tonight I’m on my knees, yeah I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah – The Verve The primary event in the news since September 10th is the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Last week I’d mentioned I was taking part in a 5-day fast.

Boy have I not posted in a while.

I may finally have some respite from my hectic schedule full of flying all over the continental United States.

I’ve finally gotten tired of maintaining my own mail server.

This year has gotten off to an utterly ridiculous start.

I’ve been somewhat tight-lipped about my job hunt, but not through any particular desire to obfuscate.

There’s a phrase that’s now become ubiquitous on various parts of the internet, and it goes like this: The purpose of a system is what it does.

Postgres Conference Seattle 2024 partnered up with PASS this year to present a united database front.

Postgres Conference Seattle 2024 partnered up with PASS this year to present a united database front.

About two months ago while browsing X, one of the people I follow posted a video recorded in 1985.

Things always start in an unassuming way, don’t they?

Last week I attended Postgres Conference Seattle 2024 as a speaker for two sessions.

There seems to be a lot of debate on both sides of the political aisle, and I’m far from a disinterested observer.

I never got around to it, and I was going to write about how my birthday went last week, but I just experienced a kind of “Eureka” moment.

I woke up from a dream this morning where someone from my past was being incredibly unfair to me.

This is a verbatim conversation I had with an older LLaMa 3 model hosted on my PC via Ollama a few days ago.

Postgres and Rust go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or ice-cream and root beer, or Batman and Robin, or mice and cheese, or sand on a beach, or crabs and elephants!

Last week was a very odd conjunction of coincidence I’m still trying to understand.

Though there is unpacking yet to do, we’re settling in rather well.

Not every database-backed application needs to be locked down like Fort Knox.

The dust has mostly settled and we’re finally unpacking in the new house.

Sometimes when we have an existing database and schema full of tables, there comes a time when we need to perform a migration.

Remember this guy?

It’s no secret that Jen and I have been thinking of moving out of Macomb for a while now.

Have you ever wanted to use a non-superuser role in a Postgres database to perform actions that are normally restricted?

The last few PG Phriday articles have been somewhat dense content, so how about something a bit more irreverent?

Has it really come to this?

One of the job prospects I was interviewing with presented me with a question last week: “We’d like to schedule a final culture interview with you, but before we do, we were wondering if you would entertain a contractor role?”

Last Phriday we explored just where Postgres could end up in the future.

With my newfound “free time”, I’ve spent a lot of time catching up on my writing.

What is High Availability to Postgres?

When it comes to reordering the items in a list, databases have long had a kind of Faustian Bargain to accomplish the task.

Potential layoffs are a persistent fixture in some industries, like some kind of Sword of Damocles looming over them in perpetuity.

I’ve had something of a “busy” week thus far.

Well, I’ve finally reformatted my Dell R730 project system and replaced TrueNAS SCALE with Proxmox VE once again.

Sea of Stars has been the subject of a vast amount of hype.

Geez, play a few games and then I just fall off of the Earth!

Over the weekend, Hamas stormed Israel and committed what can only be described as a series of atrocities.

So my 46th birthday has come and gone.

So I already noted in my previous post that my Macular Degeneration had returned.

Looks like I’ve fallen a bit behind in my updates.

Given all of my work on my basement project server, it occurred to me that I would eventually need to override my router’s DNS settings if I wanted general availability through the house.

Following up on Project R730 - Part 1, it’s time to expand the tale.