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Short technical notes on problems I run into on real projects, and how I solve them.
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One day a week, I code without AI
One day a week I write code with no chat assistant and no autocomplete. Why that day feels so good, my four-week training plan, and what it does for reviewing AI-generated code.
#AI#Career#Debugging
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Why this series? What I've learned running PostgreSQL in production
From a field management system used by municipalities to an analytics platform with dozens of workers, what I've learned running PostgreSQL in production, in 12 parts. This post is the map of the series.
#PostgreSQL#PostGIS#Databases
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Getting the data model right: where normalization should stop
What you gain by keeping each fact in one place, when I copy data on purpose, and why changing a live schema is so expensive. Real examples from this blog, KillReport and Biocidal.
#PostgreSQL#Databases#Prisma
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Why Rust? What a 1 GB Orange Pi taught me
From keeping a memory-leaking Node.js service alive on an edge device with restarts, to moving to Rust for memory I can predict.
#Rust#IoT#Node.js
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