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Added a link to the bottom of all my articles to the site’s human policy: All content certified human.

Published fragment A couple tiny Codex TUI features, on three hiding in plain sight: copying the last answer, toggling raw Markdown, and disabling Escape as an interrupt.

Published fragment 15 years later, a day without Tmux, on reevaluating one of the oldest and dearest tools in my kit.

Published fragment Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

Published Migration fatigue, and how LLMs help us avoid it, on how we used an LLM to optimize a core query in active job rescue.

Published fragment River binaries will get 10 kB lighter, on removing accidental test-only transitive dependencies that added about 10 kB to every Go binary built with River.

River v0.41 now supports Turso, a ground-up rewrite of SQLite in Rust that aims for full SQLite compatibility.

Published fragment pgtestdb’s template cloning approach to testing is fast, on how Postgres template databases enable database-per-test isolation in around 100 ms, within spitting distance of River’s schema-based approach.

Published fragment I used to add links by hand, on how LLMs now drive most of this blog’s workflows, replacing what used to be a lot of small, manual edits.

We shipped active job rescue, a new River Pro feature that uses queue heartbeats to quickly recover jobs orphaned by crashed clients.

Published fragment The paradox of free time, on how a long stretch of open, contiguous time makes you … less (?)

Updated now, on moving to Austin, working on River, and life after Stainless.

Published sequence 111, Ladyslipper.

Published sequence 110, Bull Creek Hills.

Published sequence 109, Monolith.

Published sequence 108, Canals.

Published sequence 107, Fountain and Ruinenberg.

A tweet from the creator of Homebrew worth thinking about: I think I will give up.

Published fragment Rich, fully attributed context timeout errors in Go, on making Go’s generic context deadline exceeded errors traceable with small helpers that attribute the operation that timed out and spell out how long the timeout was.

Published fragment SQLite bulk insert with sqlc, on using json_each and json_extract to achieve this end.

Published fragment Generating words?

We shipped an insert-only TypeScript package for River.

Nanoglyph 052 is published, on life after acquisition, the minimum viable unit of saleable software and whether River can qualify, Balkan Ruby in Sofia, and hiking in the Vitosha mountains.