Articles by ben_s
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Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source (ubicloud.com)

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Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 (zerotrickpony.com)

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These Aren't the Tools You're Looking For: The Hidden Dangers of MCP (ainativedev.io)

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How to review AI generated PRs (thoughtbot.com)

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Snowflake: Building a Data Cloud (medium.com/snowflake)

1

Finding Stuff in the Terminal (flakm.com)

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The What, Why and How of Containers (annwan.me)

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PostgreSQL Heap-Only-Tuple or Hot Update Optimization (vladmihalcea.com)

2

KeepYourMouthShut – A Python program to auto-generate Podcasts (github.com/rajtilakjee)

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Container Loading in AWS Lambda (brooker.co.za)

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Equations That Changed the World – Rewritten in JavaScript (runjs.app)

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Logging: The Unsung Hero in Developer Security – Here's Why and How (withstandsecurity.com)

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CloudZip: List/read from remote zip files without downloading them (github.com/ozkatz)

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Exploring Gleam with Genetic Algorithms (silasmarvin.dev)

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DuckDB Walks to the Beat of Its Own Analytics Drum (datanami.com)

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The Tragic Race Condition (codereliant.io)

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How to keep your product alive: poor man's SRE (pixeljets.com)

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Relational Data at the Edge: How Cloudflare Operates Distributed Postgres (infoq.com)

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When Postgres Is Not Enough? Perf Evaluation of Postgres vs. Distributed DBMSs (ydb.tech)

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Postgres Performance Boost: Hot Updates and Fill Factor (crunchydata.com)

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Distributed Queries for Pgvector (jkatz05.com)

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A Comprehensive Comparison for Vector Search in PostgreSQL (pgvecto.rs)

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A Comprehensive Guide to Trumbowyg: The Wysiwyg Editor for Web Developers (blackslate.io)

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Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? (mtlynch.io)

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Nvidia Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing (nvidia.com)

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Nvidia Unveils Successor to Its All-Conquering AI Processor (bloomberg.com)

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Running PostgreSQL Inside the Browser with PGLite (i-programmer.info)

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C++ creator rebuts White House warning (infoworld.com)

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Empirically supported code review best practices (graphite.dev)

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"Fast" Web Services with Zig Lang Using the Zap Library (medium.com/shyamsundarb)

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Simplifying as much as possible is the way to go in the engineering industry (eng-leadership.com)

3

AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster (infoq.com)

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Start with a Minimum Viable System (2023) (dannyguo.com)

24

The High-Risk Refactoring (webup.org)

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Velocity Theater Produces Awful Meals (mdalmijn.com)

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Losing faith in testing (thorstenball.com)

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Immich: Self-hosted photo and video management solution (immich.app)

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Want OKRs to Succeed? Start with Why (jeffgothelf.com)

4

What Developers Found After Testing Devin AI (favtutor.com)

1

Generating a Docker Image with Nix (fasterthanli.me)

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Podman Desktop 1.8 Release (podman-desktop.io)

1

Data Transformation in API Integrations (apidna.ai)

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Making a Good Proof-of-Concept (harryganz.com)

4

Elixir is dynamically and strongly typed (phoenixonrails.com)

2

How fast is Java 22? (timefold.ai)

1

AI, a Jobless Future (riturajbasak.vercel.app)

1

How to Optimize Kubernetes Performance in 2024 (overcast.blog)

1

Code Is Liability (paleblueapps.com)

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Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation (letsencrypt.org)

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We Use Platform Engineering to Cultivate Successful Engineering Culture (permit.io)

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Remote Postgres Made Simple (medium.com/tigerasks)

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SoloVer is a simple and expressive versioning specification (tuxen.de)

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Snowflake Supports Trailing Comma for the Select Clause (medium.com/snowflake)

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Enforcing Join Orders in PostgreSQL (cybertec-postgresql.com)

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HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained (alexandrehtrb.github.io)

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Pokémon Go: Architecture of the #1 AR Game in the World (fullstackexpress.io)

1

Rust Flashcards – over 550 cards to learn Rust (github.com/ad-si)

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How to Dive Deep into Gitlab Metrics with SQLite and Grafana (double-trouble.dev)

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LLMs are not enough, why chatbots need knowledge representation (anj.ai)

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MLOps tool KitOps now open source (kitops.ml)

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A deep dive into distributed database architectures (byteofdev.com)

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The Day Soft Deletes Caused Chaos (bemi.io)

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How to lead projects from start to finish as a software engineer (highgrowthengineer.com)

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Bouncy Ball – Compare Web Animation Techniques (sparkbox.github.io)

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High-quality and up-to-date OpenAPI specifications for relevant public APIs (github.com/konfig-sdks)

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The Advantages of Queues on Logs (jack-vanlightly.com)

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Pmesh: Rethinking Application Proxies (pme.sh)

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Writing Documentation for Your Team (shubhro.com)

2

Parsing the Postgres Protocol (kviklet.dev)

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Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action (frankel.ch)

26

Context-switching – one of the worst productivity killers (eng-leadership.com)

4

The minimum vi(m) you need to know (medium.com/tigerasks)

3

One hundred episodes of 5mins of Postgres (i-programmer.info)

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I Reduced Our LLM Costs by over 85% (jellypod.ai)

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Skyplane: Fast bulk data transfers between any cloud (skyplane.org)

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On Picking Side-Projects (florianbellmann.com)

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How to Fine-Tune an LLM from Hugging Face (myscale.com)

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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners (github.com/classvsoftware)

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The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly (dtornow.com)

2

Postgres Extensions in One Place (gist.github.com)

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I Built an Algorithmic Trading System in Rust. Here's What I Regret (medium.com/austin-starks)

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Dada, an experimental new programming language (dada-lang.org)

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Get up and running with large language models, locally (ollama.com)

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Leaving LinkedIn – Choosing Engineering Excellence over Expediency (corecursive.com)

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Blameless culture should be a standard in the engineering industry (eng-leadership.com)

3

Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2022 Report (it-cisq.org)

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Lessons I learned the hard way from 6 years as a software engineer (careercutler.substack.com)

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Gitbrowser: Browse and clone repositories directly from your terminal (github.com/raresrech)

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Confronting Imposter Syndrome (soumowatitallah1.substack.com)

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The Ten Commandments of Software Development (samuellawrentz.com)

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PostgreSQL: Protect schemas against accidental deletion (telablog.com)

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On Getting Paid for Open Source (radekmie.dev)

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Plebbit: Decentralized Social Media (plebbit.com)

2

Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source (phoronix.com)

1

The Two Types of Indexes in Pgvector (stormatics.tech)

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The Azure_AI extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL (microsoft.com)

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VS Code extension Actionforge: visually build GitHub Actions (actionforge.dev)

2

Reverse Engineering with ChatGPT: An Example (sigpwned.com)

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Quality is a hard sell in big tech (pcloadletter.dev)

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Meta's new LLM-based test generator (engineerscodex.com)