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Latest — 10 Aug 2025

Why PostgreSQL Should Be Your Database Default (And Why Everything Else Is Just Marketing)

Most startups pick the wrong database and pay for it. After a 10-hour outage on YugabyteDB, Cursor switched to PostgreSQL on AWS RDS. It just worked. Reliable, scalable, and lock-in free PostgreSQL quietly powers the internet without the hype or headaches.

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The 60fps Revelation: How requestAnimationFrame Saved My Drag-and-Drop Dreams

Learn how requestAnimationFrame can fix laggy drag-and-drop UIs, boost performance, and create buttery-smooth user experiences in React apps

How to Build APIs That Don't Suck

After wrestling with nightmare APIs—think GETs that create, POSTs that hide data, and surprise HTML errors—I vowed to build integrations that don’t suck. Here’s my hard-won blueprint for APIs that developers actually love.

The Hidden Clojure Gems That Saved E-commerce Analytics (And My Sanity)

Sleepless nights, sluggish code, and a 1% conversion rate haunted our team—until Clojure’s hidden gems turned the tide. With clever use of functions like keep, juxt, and transducers, we slashed latency, boosted conversions, and watched our analytics pipeline come alive.

How We Stole Performance Back from PostgreSQL

Our 4MB JSON blob nearly brought PostgreSQL to its knees—until we ditched recursive queries and embraced client-side tree building. What started as a performance nightmare became a lesson in keeping things simple, and our UI now loads faster than ever. Sometimes, less is truly more.

Database Deep Dive: Storage #2

Ever watched a $50,000 analytics query bring a startup to its knees? I have. The secret culprit: your database’s storage model. Learn how the right choice can turn late-night panic into scalable, cost-saving bliss—before your CEO asks why the cloud bill just exploded.

What Happens When We Outsource Our Thinking?

AI fixed my bug in minutes, but when asked to explain the solution, my mind went blank. The real bug? I’d outsourced not just the work, but the understanding—and suddenly, my code didn’t feel like mine at all. What are we losing when AI does our thinking for us?

Building Extensible Systems with Multimethods and Protocols: Escaping the Function Maze

Remember that time your “just functions” approach turned into a cond-monster? That was me, lost in a function maze—until I finally took the polymorphism plunge.

Why AI-Native Products Are Breaking SaaS Economics

Cursor’s “unlimited” plan vanished overnight, leaving developers stunned and trust shattered. AI isn’t SaaS—real costs lurk behind every click. The Cursor crisis is a wake-up call for founders everywhere.

Vibe Coder = Garbage Man

I dove into AI-powered coding, dreaming of revolution. Instead, I became a digital garbage collector, buried in technical debt and messy code.