idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

it’s incredible watching people justify how llms are bad at the thing they’re really good at, but good at everything else

Back in the day on Twitter some NFT shill announced they'd lost TONS of money on their silly little ponzi scheme so I whacked this up as a reply and boy did it do numbers

I started a software research company notes.eatonphil.com/2026-02-25-i...

Objectively funny.

Treating Maintainer attention as a finite resource: nesbitt.io/2026/02/13/r...

trying to remember what no rain for a whole day feels like

genuinely depressing how many technical blogs are now littered with the hallmarks of samey, sloppy, llm-generated writing still can’t believe how quickly people have been willing to shed their own voice for this

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. #glassart

doing yoga classes at 2x to free up my day #lifehack #grindset #lockedin

A place for the night

Late night chats

“Raylib has a very simple build system. I don’t like build systems.” 🤜🏻🤛🏻 #FOSDEM

OH "I should have said at the beginning of my talk that all of this is vapourwa...ongoing research." #PGDay #FOSDEM

TIL Postgres 18 enables page checksums by default. Glad to see it’s happened. Feels like it’s been part of the standard advice for a long time now. #PGDay #FOSDEM

SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese. Steady yourselves for this Ready? You’re not even close to being ready

this is an insult to the proud bloodline of ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 we won't forget this!

I feel like I’m going fully mad like Captain Ahab trying to see the aurora in my lifetime

mildly mad at both blue monday (which was just some marketing nonsense) and the people using the fact it’s nonsense to talk about SAD as if it doesn’t exist anyway, two more months of the worst time of the year and we can finally have some fucking daylight

Stay a while

Introducing pg_strict for Postgres. Our new extension adds a safety net to Postgres, catching dangerous queries before they run. www.youtube.com/watch?v=noPn...

I need someone to spray me with water any time I start reading an argument about LLMs on LinkedIn

I don't like winter but I do like the photos.

Tuning your database just right can be counter-intuitive, unless you understand all levels of the system. Intuitively, most would say "more work_mem = better" for building indexes, but this hurts performance due to L3 cache behavior. Great article by Tomas Vondra. vondra.me/posts/dont-g...

I wonder what the Bitconnect guy is doing right now

TLDR: io_uring won't help much if treated as a drop-in replacement for existing database I/O architectures. Better performance will often require architectural changes. When applied, there's tons of performance gains to be had. Here's the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04859

I'm excited about the database performance io_uring will unlock. Last year I benchmarked Postgres 17 vs 18 to test the initial io_uring upgrades. I was surprised to see they weren't always a clear win for TPC-C. This paper studies the potential, and the future looks good.

Oceans 11, but they are stealing DDR5 from an OpenAI data centre

This is the best article I've read on MVCC in MySQL. MySQL and Postgres use quite different engineering techniques are used to address the same problem. Undo log vs multiple tuple versions. Another great one by Jeremy Cole. blog.jcole.us/2014/04/16/t...

Netflix and chill is done, it is now the era of Plex and sex

information superhighway? no thanks. I’ll be in the information barn

it is boxing day and once again the brands are in my inbox, horny to transact

Use code CHRISTMAS to get 25% off everything in my Gumroad shop til end of Fri — link in replies! ❤️‍🔥Backgrounds: "They literally generate a feeling of childlike wonder in my heart!" ❤️‍🔥Process video: "I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the video... tremendously insightful."

All the employees at @planetscale.com are sponsoring open source projects and their maintainers today. My choice: @pgrx.bsky.social, which lets us write PostgreSQL extensions using Rust. github.com/pgcentralfou...

Enjoying the rain

before I can truly relax for christmas I must face one of my longest held nemeses: glittery wrapping paper

Local NVMe avoids the network hop but requires more provisioned storage per host. You also need solid orchestration for backups and reliability. Different tradeoff, not wrong or right.

AWS Aurora convinced everyone that separating storage and compute is always the right architecture. People accept this as gospel. But it's just a design trade-off: accept network latency as your bottleneck in exchange for better storage utilization.

Curious about the benefits of version 18? A big one is upgraded I/O performance. We conducted benchmarks to show the improvements in action: planetscale.com/blog/benchma...

Postgres 18 is here. planetscale.com/blog/postgre...

$50 PlanetScale Metal is live. pscale.link/metal-50

The leasehold system needs to be abolished today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My phone wallpaper pack has 60+ images and you can get it for only £5 (or more — any extra helps support my art!). Link in replies! "Beautifully crafted artwork... bought this collection in a heartbeat" "I love seeing them appear when I pick up my phone"

We've opened up registrations for the Belgian MySQL, MariaDB Community dinner! Thanks to our sponsors #MySQL @mariadb.bsky.social @percona.bsky.social @planetscale.com #TiDB, #ProxySQL, #ReadySet, @altinity.bsky.social www.mysqlandfriends.eu/post/belgian...

i think this is actually quite bad advice for writing rust

Starting to feel festive 🎄🥰 All-in on the coffee theme this year. Crosby Coffee’s whole bean Advent calendar at the back and Rave’s coffee chocolate one at the front ☕️

If you're in Berlin today, I'm doing my first ever market with my glass - at #Weddingmarkt Christmas Market on Leopoldplatz - from 11:00 - 19:00! (i'm... a lil terrified, but I did make a bunch of cute mini vases so....)

The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖 blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/t... #Postgres #MySQL

The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖 blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/t... #Postgres #MySQL

Every now and then I stumble across an underrated article. An example: "Measuring Latencies Between AWS Availability Zones" (link below). An incredible resource for anyone building on AWS. What are your favorite, lesser-known blogs? www.bitsand.cloud/posts/cross-...