Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.

Discover how Infobip's infrastructure, which handles over 10 billion daily messages, evolved through a decade of challenges and innovation.

There are books & many articles online, like this one arguing for using Postgres for everything. I thought I’d take a look at one use case - using Postgres instead of Redis for caching. I work with APIs quite a bit, so I’d build a super simple HTTP server…

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Your biggest mentor isn't someone else. It's the person you used to be.

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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner may classify GitHub as a social network harmful to kids, forcing the code platform to comply with ban rules for under-16s.

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

PostgreSQL Version Comparison Raw Data PostgreSQL Version Transactions Latency (ms) TPS PG12 165849 5.787 2763.556285 PG13 145544 6.594 2425.190199 PG14 158793 6.044 2646.418605 PG15 147527 6.506 2458.638847 PG16 178045 5.390 2967.223055 PG17 168357 5.701…

Real cleanup in a big Nx monorepo. I used Knip to flag unused deps, verified removals, handled false positives, and shaved about a minute off yarn install with lower CVE risk.

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A Monroe family is taking Stellantis to trial over a faulty Grand Cherokee 4xe, citing safety issues after the vehicle allegedly shut down in traffic.

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth

Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure…

For the past decade, a simple message has been delivered to a generation of American students: If you learn to code and complete a computer science degree, you’ll get a job with a six-figure salary.


Now, thousands of students who followed the advice are…