idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
it’s incredible watching people justify how llms are bad at the thing they’re really good at, but good at everything else
I started a software research company
notes.eatonphil.com/2026-02-25-i...
Depending what you want to receive on it, A&A's numbers can be quite useful. They have an SMS -> email gateway (receive only I think, but that's good enough if you just need to receive auth codes).
Objectively funny.
Treating Maintainer attention as a finite resource: nesbitt.io/2026/02/13/r...
trying to remember what no rain for a whole day feels like
genuinely depressing how many technical blogs are now littered with the hallmarks of samey, sloppy, llm-generated writing
still can’t believe how quickly people have been willing to shed their own voice for this
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. #glassart
kickboxing my foes in half moon pose
doing yoga classes at 2x to free up my day
#lifehack #grindset #lockedin
A place for the night
Late night chats
“Raylib has a very simple build system. I don’t like build systems.”
🤜🏻🤛🏻
#FOSDEM
OH "I should have said at the beginning of my talk that all of this is vapourwa...ongoing research."
#PGDay #FOSDEM
TIL Postgres 18 enables page checksums by default.
Glad to see it’s happened. Feels like it’s been part of the standard advice for a long time now.
#PGDay #FOSDEM
SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese.
Steady yourselves for this
Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
Screenshot of my Slack profile page. I'm trying to add the Anthropic magic string that makes the Claude LLM refuse to answer to the end of my name. It doesn't fit in the 80 character limit.
this is an insult to the proud bloodline of ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
we won't forget this!
I feel like I’m going fully mad like Captain Ahab trying to see the aurora in my lifetime
I’ll always vote nature from these
mildly mad at both blue monday (which was just some marketing nonsense) and the people using the fact it’s nonsense to talk about SAD as if it doesn’t exist
anyway, two more months of the worst time of the year and we can finally have some fucking daylight
Stay a while
Introducing pg_strict for Postgres.
Our new extension adds a safety net to Postgres, catching dangerous queries before they run.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=noPn...
I need someone to spray me with water any time I start reading an argument about LLMs on LinkedIn
I don't like winter but I do like the photos.
Tuning your database just right can be counter-intuitive, unless you understand all levels of the system.
Intuitively, most would say "more work_mem = better" for building indexes, but this hurts performance due to L3 cache behavior.
Great article by Tomas Vondra.
vondra.me/posts/dont-g...
I wonder what the Bitconnect guy is doing right now
TLDR: io_uring won't help much if treated as a drop-in replacement for existing database I/O architectures. Better performance will often require architectural changes. When applied, there's tons of performance gains to be had.
Here's the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04859
I'm excited about the database performance io_uring will unlock.
Last year I benchmarked Postgres 17 vs 18 to test the initial io_uring upgrades. I was surprised to see they weren't always a clear win for TPC-C.
This paper studies the potential, and the future looks good.
