Today is my last day at Neon. I feel incredibly grateful and proud of the time I’ve spent helping grow the platform from a few hundred to nearly a million users.

Who’s in Amsterdam for JSWorld this week?

About last night 🗽 Huge thanks to our speakers @ahmadawais.com Jacob @nutlope.bsky.social Mahmoud @nitya.dev , @aiDotEngineer @swyx.io and Microsoft for their support for making the NYC AI Agent Dev Tools meetup a success

It was an honor to give a speech at the Algeria CTO Forum and to have a conversation with the Ministers of Telecom and Startups about the future of technology in the country.

I can’t get enough of this view and am so lucky call this region home. I’m on my way to my home country Algeria 🇩🇿 to speak at the CTO Forum about “how to stay relevant in a world redefined by AI”, then off to NYC🗽for the AI Engineer Summit. Let me know if you want to meet 👋

Not a joke! My son's school offers a Ninjutsu camp 🥷

Thank you Amsterdam 🇳🇱 I had a lot of fun at the Vercel meetup at Miro’s offices meeting the community and hanging out with incredible people such as @kapehe.bsky.social @chrissev.bsky.social @ives.sh Catalin Matheus Fernandes and many others. See you all in the next one.

Great deep dive into dsql internals at re:Cap with @sebsto.bsky.social

Hey @bejs.bsky.social look who I found in Amsterdam 🇳🇱

@arnaud-barre.bsky.social talking of @trpc.io at Meetup Node.JS Cc @chebri.bsky.social there were a few words linked to some awesome ski days ⛷️ Looking forward to joining next year 🥰

One thing I don't mention enough about Neon is how talented our engineering team is. The company was built by Postgres hackers with open source in mind and continues to contribute upstream to Postgres, its ecosystem of extensions and poolers. ...

Three years doing Open Source at @stackblitz.com today! I'm grateful to work with and learn from awesome folks in the ecosystem. In my retrospective from last year, vite's npm weekly downloads were at the 10M mark. It will soon double that. And it once more feels like we're just getting started 💜

A perfect Sunday Randonee Skiing ❄️ Out in nature is a true therapy. Away from worries and screens, it’s the perfect place to be in the moment, reflect and appreciate.

I read Kai-Fu Lee’s book AI Superpowers a few years before the ChatGPT moment. He called Alpha Go beating Lee Sedol “China’s Sputnik moment” and explains both why China took AI very seriously since then and the resilience of its entrepreneurs. Beautiful read.

Can’t express how humbling it is to hang out with these folks. Open source is in good hands.

everything is better with open source friends

Are you in NYC on Feb 18 and interested in AI agent dev tools? Neon is hosting an exciting meetup with Microsoft, Groq, and more to kick off the AI Engineer Summit. Join us for a great night and an awesome lineup of speakers! Save the date and RSVP now on Luma: lu.ma/7wn1tmc0

Christmas Surprise! GitHub Copilot is now FREE with 2000 code completions a month! github.blog/news-insight...

2024 is a wrap! I'm taking two weeks off to spend some time with my 🇩🇿 and 🇳🇴 families. I’m grateful for all the fantastic people I met this year in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, and other places around the world 🙌. I'm very excited about 2025, and I can't wait to see you all then.

I had a great time in Berlin 🇩🇪 participating and attending Weaviate Hack Night and @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org

The stage at React Day Berlin is set, and @elian.codes is about to ignite the crowd ⚡️🎧

@nicolas.dubien.me on stage now @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org

Thanks for this amazing conference 😍

Gonna be a mind-blowing and unforgettable talk by @elian.codes at @reactdayberlin.gitnation.org The weird web explained?! 😂

@elian.codes on stage, being not serious 😂

My buddy @nicolas.dubien.me talking about reactivity without compilers. 🌶️

Lesson of the day: Live demos are cool … when they work as expected 😆

psql from the browser psql.sh

I have been playing with the ElevenLabs Agent API lately. So here is an example based on Rishiraj Rain’s work on Voice Thingy.

Hey DevRel friends! 👋 Let me know if you’re looking to use Postgres for your projects. My friend Taraneh Dohmer can share up to 70$ worth of Neon resources per month all for free —DM me if interested, and feel free to refer other DevRels!

This @huberman episode’s timing couldn’t be any better. I love to travel for events and meet people but I almost never sleep more than 3h a night. Can’t wait to listen to this.

This was after @theburningmonk patiently educated me for 30min on DynamoDB and explained how wrong I was 😅 I truly thought it worked just like Cassandra Nice to meet you Yan!

Look who I found at the expo. Very cool to finally meet you in person Alex.

Bill a true SaaS hero. I had the pleasure to collaborate with Bill on a webinar a few months, and it’s so cool to finally meet him and discuss the next generation of SaaS. Can’t wait for our future collaborations.

Believe in Serverless party 🎉 organized by Allen Helton My favorite thing as a developer advocate is to meet people and fellow DevRels I have interacted with on social.

Look who I found at ClickHouse’s booth. Ryadh Dahimene Ph.D and I go back almost 20 years when he and El Kindi Rezig competed at Imagine Cup in Algeria 🇩🇿. I would have never believed then that we would both be here, working for tech startups pushing the frontiers of OLTP and OLAP.

For those of you wondering why, Zurich🇨🇭is an amazing choice and makes total sense: 1. The best quality of life by far 2. Top Engineers from Google, Meta, NVIDIA and others 3. One of the best universities in the world ETH Zurich

Just touched down in Las Vegas 🇺🇸 after a 15-hour journey from Geneva 🇨🇭 for AWS re:Invent! Kicked things off at the DigitalOcean, Sourcegraph, and Yugabyte party 🎉 connecting with fellow DevRels and enjoying the vibes. See you all tomorrow at the conference. Come check out Neon at booth 1840.

On my way to re:invent. Just a quick stop in the Alps then off to Vegas ✈️ Speaking of events and the Alps. I can’t wait to share with you a cool project we’re working on. Stay tuned.

At GenAI conf, I shared how I broke my forearm skiing 2 years ago, had surgery, and went back skiing with a cast to overcome my mental struggles. Failing is part of life, and it shouldn’t get on the way of what you love. So keep failing at what you love doing. All you need is to be right once.

🫣 I’m sure many can relate to this

Good morning ☀️ wish you all a great week

Hackers doing hackers things 🧑‍💻

I read Sapiens, Homo Deus and 20 Lessons with a great passion. I find yuval harari’s writing captivating. I’m excited about this one.

I’ll be at the Llama Impact Hackathon London 🇬🇧 Who’s going to be there?

I think I found my peaceful and calming playlist ☺️

If you’re not sprinting to catch the bus or your flight, are you even optimizing your time? 🏃‍♂️💨 01:00 💤 Slept 07:30 🥱 Woke up 08:40 🏠 Packed and left 🚃🧒 09:05 Dropped off the kids at school 🚃 09:40 ✈️ Checked in for my flight 10:00 🎫 Boarded Efficiency or chaos? You decide.

Can’t stop listening to this today I feel at peace

Thanks Edouard, Alisdair and Yann from Koyeb for inviting me to your offices in beautiful Station F.

would love to see some @nuxt.com representation 🙏❤️