It seems like everyone is building an AI code review tool these days, each promising to revolutionize how we write and manage code. But after trying nearly every AI code reviewer on the market, and building one of our own, we’ve come to one undeniable conclusion…

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

A response to a viral Hacker News article

In this article, we provide you with a list of 10 logging best practices in order to get your logs into a manageable and helpful state.

Read how you can double your Postgres INSERT performance using the UNNEST function.

Note: This got and got some attention.

This post is not advice, it's what's working for me.

It's easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good o...

v7.10.0 stable release (breaking changes with fallbacks) comes with 100+ enhancements, bug fixes. Once again thank you for all the awesome contributions from the community.
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Changing perspectives since 400 BCE.

CedarDB is a relational-first database that supports all your workloads, from transactional to analytical to graph, accessible through PostgreSQL's tools and SQL dialect.

How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets

Explore the differences between AWS EKS Fargate and EC2-backed clusters for your Kubernetes EKS workloads.

Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week

If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”.  It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.

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A blog by and for database architects.

(“make LLMs play better with one weird trick”)

Giving ChatGPT a moderately challenging frontend developer task, and seeing if it can complete it.