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New blog entry.

"Postgres: Why is an update on another table blocking my select for update?"

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We upgraded to Postgres 17 last week and I ran numbers for real life perf gains over the ~9 days worth of API telemetry since.

They are looking VERY good, with a 15% reduction in request duration at P50. Even better than my synthetic bench a few months back.

Writeup to come.

I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA...

This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.

That you can build Twitter (bsky) with 20 people instead of 2000 means bsky can pursue monetization models that Twitter never could. This is a pattern I see across many startups now. Tech has gotten good enough to ship products at 10x-100x less cost compared to 20 years ago. 1/n

New TIL: Instantiating objects from Model.insert_all in ActiveRecord

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bro, so to run a program, i "execute" it, but to stop it i "kill" it? computers are barbaric, bro

Is my app broken or does Bluesky not maintain timeline position on refresh? If so that’s a big detractor.