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2026-08-31—How one connection kills a database(PlanetScale)

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2026-08-25—Problems with large tables in Postgres(PlanetScale)
2026-08-24—Has AI Gone Rogue?(Cal Newport)
2026-08-24—Anger, Anxiety and Agency(Armin Ronacher)
2026-08-24—The history of Postgres sharding(PlanetScale)
2026-08-22—Fast and Hard Code(Armin Ronacher)
2026-08-19—What Is Reasoning(Armin Ronacher)
2026-08-18—Poisoned Postgres connection pools(PlanetScale)
2026-08-17—What is a data topology?(PlanetScale)
2026-08-11—The dangers of Postgres subtransactions(PlanetScale)
2026-08-10—On AI Coding and Its Discontents(Cal Newport)
2026-08-07—Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower(PlanetScale)
2026-07-31—Massively parallel Postgres backups(PlanetScale)
2026-07-27—Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?(Cal Newport)
2026-07-24—Codeberg Divides(Armin Ronacher)
2026-07-24—Postgres backups under the hood(PlanetScale)
2026-07-23—What's new in Postgres 19(PlanetScale)
2026-07-20—Every UPDATE Leaves a Ghost: MVCC, Bloat, and VACUUM in PostgreSQL(PlanetScale)
2026-07-15—Making 768 servers look like 1(PlanetScale)
2026-07-13—Why Reading Matters(Cal Newport)
2026-07-13—The Tower Keeps Rising(Armin Ronacher)
2026-07-13—When the Postgres query planner goes rogue(PlanetScale)
2026-07-08—Deadlocks and downtime(PlanetScale)
2026-07-04—Better Models: Worse Tools(Armin Ronacher)
2026-07-02—Building an Intern(David Cramer)
2026-06-29—Beware of Productivity Paradoxes(Cal Newport)
2026-06-25—One Postgres cluster, many apps(PlanetScale)
2026-06-23—The Coming Loop(Armin Ronacher)
2026-06-22—Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”(Cal Newport)
2026-06-16—The feedback loops behind Kubernetes(PlanetScale)
2026-06-15—AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.(Cal Newport)
2026-06-15—See what your database is doing right now with Connections(PlanetScale)
2026-06-13—Dangerous Technology For Americans Only(Armin Ronacher)
2026-06-11—The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE(PlanetScale)
2026-06-11—A Bigger Toolbox for MCP(David Cramer)
2026-06-10—Gaslighting Openness(Armin Ronacher)
2026-06-06—Communities of Not(Armin Ronacher)
2026-05-30—How to build a shitty robot(Mario Zechner)
2026-05-14—Egress problems and where to find them(PlanetScale)
2026-05-07—Problem solving with PlanetScale Insights(PlanetScale)
2026-05-05—Transparency in benchmarking(PlanetScale)
2026-05-05—On benchmarking(PlanetScale)
2026-04-30—RLS sounds great until it isn't(PlanetScale)
2026-04-28—Finding Vulnerabilities with Warden(David Cramer)
2026-04-21—Approaches to tenancy in Postgres(PlanetScale)
2026-04-10—Keeping a Postgres queue healthy(PlanetScale)
2026-04-08—I've sold out(Mario Zechner)
2026-03-25—Thoughts on slowing the fuck down(Mario Zechner)
2026-03-25—Tracing Sucks(David Cramer)
2026-03-12—Optimizing Content for Agents(David Cramer)
2026-02-25—Building a Slack Agent with Pi on Vercel(David Cramer)
2026-02-23—Skill Synthesis(David Cramer)
2026-02-02—Context Management and MCP(David Cramer)
2026-02-02—Your code is under new management(David Cramer)
2026-01-20—MCP, Skills, and Agents(David Cramer)
2025-12-22—Year in Review 2025(Mario Zechner)
2025-12-11—Rethinking Tools in MCP(David Cramer)
2025-11-30—What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent(Mario Zechner)
2025-11-22—Armin is wrong and here's why(Mario Zechner)
2025-11-02—What if you don't need MCP at all?(Mario Zechner)
2025-10-29—Subagents with MCP(David Cramer)
2025-10-05—Infinite Footguns: Writing a JavaScript Interpreter in JavaScript(Mario Zechner)
2025-08-22—Unreal Engine isn't ready for AI(David Cramer)
2025-08-15—MCP vs CLI: Benchmarking Tools for Coding Agents(Mario Zechner)
2025-08-08—Built With Borrowed Hands(David Cramer)
2025-08-06—Patching Claude Code for debugging and /cost support for Max users(Mario Zechner)
2025-08-03—cchistory: Tracking Claude Code System Prompt and Tool Changes(Mario Zechner)
2025-06-02—Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state(Mario Zechner)
2025-05-09—Instrumenting Your MCP Server(David Cramer)
2025-05-06—MCP is not good, yet.(David Cramer)
2025-04-26—Boxie - an always offline audio player for my 3 year old(Mario Zechner)
2025-04-23—20/20 Vision with ICL(David Cramer)
2025-04-14—Running Evals in Vitest(David Cramer)
2025-02-04—On Product-Market Fit(David Cramer)
2024-10-28—Lunch Isn't Free(David Cramer)
2024-10-04—What is Brand?(David Cramer)
2024-09-29—Fire Faster, but Hire Better(David Cramer)
2024-08-22—Electronic Nights III - Animated LEDs and Buttons(Mario Zechner)
2024-08-09—Open Source is not a Business Model(David Cramer)
2024-08-05—Electronic Nights II - Basic Circuits(Mario Zechner)
2024-07-26—Electronic Nights I - Getting Started(Mario Zechner)
2024-07-20—macOS code injection for fun and no profit(Mario Zechner)
2024-07-15—Two years in review(Mario Zechner)
2024-07-14—Dissecting history(Mario Zechner)
2024-07-11—CTA: Structuring Unstructured Data(David Cramer)
2024-06-17—wtb: Progressive SPAs(David Cramer)

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