HTMX is fine until the third stakeholder wants a modal
HTMX was successfully implemented in a production environment earlier this year. Then, out of the blue, the third stakeholder expressed their desire…
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AI-generated websites are the Word Art era all over again
Do you recall Word Art? That rainbow gradient, arched text monster on every 90s school flyer. We are currently experiencing a resurgence of this tec…
Postgres for everything hits a wall the moment dashboards get concurrent
I used to say, "Just use Postgres." After that, our dashboards became concurrent, and the read replica we quickly added to offload some of the press…
A little copy-paste is cheaper than the wrong abstraction
One time I deleted what seemed to be a duplicated file, but it reappeared. I deleted it again, and the same thing happened. I did this three times b…
vector storage is not your new database religion
Every RAG prototype wants a vector database before it wants a data model. That is usually backwards. The first hard question is not which ANN index…
Retries didn't make GitHub resilient. They DDoS'd it.
A capacity blip at GitHub resulted in an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. The infrastructure recovered faster than the clients let it. 😬 W…
The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill
A startup with only six engineers calculated the cost of their monthly cloud bill to be $11,847. The majority of the data generated was not from the…
AI Coding, One Year Later: What August 2025 Didn't See Coming
It's coming up on a year since the models actually changed. Not incremental, a real shift in what AI can do for engineers. In that year the whole la…
durable execution is something you install
A process starts a multi-step job. Step 1 validates the customer. Step 2 creates an internal record. Step 3 moves money, changes a subscription, sen…
Herdr and the Throughput Case for Parallel Coding Agents
Most agent tooling is still built around a single conversation: one agent, one task, one terminal, one stream to babysit. Fine for small tasks, bad…
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Split Voice Agents in Two
Smallest.ai closed a $13 million Series A round this week. The capital brings their total funding to $21 million since they launched late in 2024. B…
SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe
One ANALYZE command resulted in a 100x query speedup for one person. There was no need to restart the server, reconfigure the network, or receive an…
I Was About to Cancel Claude. Now Gemini Is Rate-Limiting Me Out of My Own Plan.
The Almost-Cancellation About six months ago I was one renewal away from cancelling Claude. Not because it got worse, because I just wasn't opening…
Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything
There is an increasing trend on the internet stating that in the AI era, code longevity is “questionable if not problematic". The argument continues…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in…