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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

• simonwillisonblog-backup — Backups of the database for simonwillison.net

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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• Apple design its own chips for its phones. The latest CPU is the A20 Pro. Geekbench is a benchmark with a database of results; you can run your own benchmarks and share your numbers with the world. In the last few days, we finally got some A20 Pro results and the numbers are impressive... reaching 4000 in single-core (one thread) performance. For comparison, the best that you can do with an x64 AMD or Intel processor is something like the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 at about 3,163 which would be somewhere between the A18 and A19. The A20 Pro is 25% faster on this benchmark than any AMD or Intel processo…

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

• What's YOUR GitHub database ID? Mine is 2892

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Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

• there's nothing more satisfying than shipping a database optimization

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

• I am so close to creating a blocklist database of marketers who invite people into their webinars without asking. Spamming people's calendars should have repercussions.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• Excited to share the amazing companies sponsoring The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast the fall: turbopuffer is our presenting sponsor. How the company started is epic: founder Simon Eskildsen told Cursor he can reduce their database bill by 95%... and he did (!!) turbopuffer.com/pragmatic (cont'd)

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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.

• rqlite - the fault-tolerant database built on SQLite - v10.3 is out -- headline fix in this release is for an elusive bug found by @AntithesisHQ. The bug was super-hard to notice. Impressive work.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

• My brain is broken that I read it as “The Most Database People” and clicked on it to see if @samlambert or anyone alse was on the list.
  Quoting@CelesteamadonFor the past year, I've been keeping a list of SF's most dateable people. It's time the public sees it. This week, San Francisco's Hot List goes live. I have my picks, but want to see if I'm missing anyone. Drop a name or two.

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

• Launching Route 53 Files

  I'm excited to announce Route 53 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's highest-availability database.

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• A really interesting thread generally from @swtch.com -- and fascinating to watch Claude (correctly) do the archaeology. Confession: Claude's inability to verify www.illumos.org/issues/4627 (which it correctly identified as the bug) has me questioning the anti-bot provisions on the bug database...
  Quoting@swtch.comGo issue #78438 was another net/http test flake. This one turned out to be Go tripping over a Solaris kernel bug that predates the Illumos fork. @bcantrill.bsky.social fixed it in 2014! Hurry up, Oracle! research.swtch.com/agentlogs/so...

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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.

• Front Matter CMS 10.12.0 is out. Three things worth knowing about: 📋 Paste images 🌍 New translate field property. 🔀 The .frontmatter/database files are now Git-friendly. Full notes:

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

• laravel-backup-restore — A package to restore database backups made with spatie/laravel-backup.

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

• datascript — Immutable database and Datalog query engine for Clojure, ClojureScript and JS

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Drop-In Time report is a short one. 1. Bunny is a working artist in her 80s. She needed help with some kind of art database product she buys (and pays a lot for, built on Filemaker) which somehow exported a list of her contacts but won't show her a list of contacts inside the app. We kind of fix it, it's just clicking. I tell her for what she is paying for this software, she should get them to support their product. Definitely get a "but the light is better over here!" response. 😑

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

• This is @exedev. Come get a durable sandbox, with a URL, with auth, with sharing. Keep it private or make it public. Run any database you like. Run as many as you like. The world of small software awaits.
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• Here's an ~8,000 word walk through + video on how to back your database up in @Docker, specifically PostgreSQL. It includes restoring too! We'll use local storage, S3 and also Plakar for extra goodness around de-duplication (save $), encryption and more.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

  Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an interes…

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• Did you know when you redirect a file with > or use tee, it creates a 0 byte file right away before your command or pipeline runs? If you're not careful this can result in data loss if you're overwriting a file, such as database backups.

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

• yc-blacklist — Open, community-maintained registry of YC startups to avoid — don't work for, don't use, don't pay for. JSON database, contribute via PR.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

• laravel-settings — Store Laravel application settings in the database.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

• Kubernetes runs on feedback loops

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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.

• Major new release of rqlite (https://t.co/hzLPmWFhl1) - the lightweight, fault-tolerate database built on SQLite - v10 out now. Includes more robust clustering, better SQLite WAL handling, and a new built-in console application for easy management.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc... I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. T…
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm…
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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

• Judgment and creativity are all you need.

  When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is very possible in tho…

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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.

• rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite. 9.0 released - major upgrade. rqlite now supports Change Data Capture, allowing you to stream database changes to other systems #sqlite #golang #distributedsystems

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Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

• Thomas Bloom and I are launching a crowdsourced project to link up Thomas's erdosproblems.com site with the #OEIS, by systematically calculating the various integer sequences associated with the Erdos problems and crosschecking them against the OEIS database:

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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.

• rqlite, the lightweight distributed database build on SQLite, now supporting automatic backup-and-restore to Google Cloud Storage. Improved Disaster Recovery options.

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• rqlite -- the lightweight, user-friendly distributed database built on #SQLite, Raft consensus and @golang -- rqlite 8.31 is out now with improved support for BLOB data.

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