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I used AI to help write the article, but the ideas and the technical perspective are mine. This wasn't made wholesale. I've been working on creating an MCP server for DynamoDB, and…

LLMs are good at SQL. It's precise, expressive, and unambiguous. If you connect an MCP server to Postgres, then the agent can query it directly. The same cannot be said for NoSQL, …

Of all the NoSQL databases, DynamoDB is one of the most frustrating to query. MongoDB has an expressive query language. Cassandra has CQL, which is close enough to SQL that most en…

Are there actually people out there who have never played “modern board games”? Maybe I’m just surrounded by nerds, but I don’t think these games are very niche. If someone I know …

I read this article assuming the title was clickbait, but no, that pretty much sums up the whole article. “Let’s solve the AI takeover using eugenics!” If even Elon musk and the Ch…

My dad and I built a SQL layer for DynamoDB (DynamoSQL) because we kept running into the same problem: we needed to query information across multiple tables (or multiple record typ…

Trade school seems to be looking more and more valuable these days. I feel bad for young people who are going to a 4 year university and gaining debt for a career that might not ex…

Interesting post. I'm notoriously bad at noticing the common characteristics in AI writing, but once they were pointed out, I realized I've been seeing them everywhere in websites.…

Cool article. Did a very good job explaining things simply and providing good diagrams.

I have a hard time imagining that universal medicaid would ever become reality. A more realistic goal might be making the premium tax credit more accessible or lessening the restri…

Can't even imagine what it's like to live in Europe. Just casually going on a walk and finding a coin that is over 2 millennia old. Just another Tuesday.

Maybe, but I'm not surprised by the number. Saying something triggering about a topic that's triggering from a man that's triggering is bound to get responses. It got me to respond…

I think the price would need to be closer to $4 or $5 per letter for me personally to recommend it or consider it. My SIL just sent out wedding invitations with stamped seals, and …

Cool idea. I can see you guys doing well in the wedding industry. The price seems steep, but I appreciate the transparency of your pricing. It's refreshing.

That was a lot of fun. I got it wrong. I narrowed it down to two options, and neither was correct. Good stuff.

As a software developer, I've frequently used DynamoDB, and I have found myself missing the ease of SQL querying. So I built DynamoSQL to be a SQL layer. It allows you to write sta…

It kinda seems like the point of the article was to talk about different mathematical illustrations, not to determine if math was big or small. Even in the article, the conclusion …

I agree for cases that need real-time replication and are querying at high frequency. There is a trade-off, though. You're adding three services to maintain, there's replication la…

Valid points. The read cost and in-memory aggregation concerns are real and worth flagging. DynamoSQL is index-aware and will use your partition keys, sort keys, and GSIs where it …

I agree. If Word had something like this, it would be so much easier to find the symbol you're looking for.

One of my biggest issues with playing DND is that I never fully understood the rules. I'd play with people who had been playing for years, and they didn't explain things very well,…

Built a SQL interface for DynamoDB. I was tired of constantly trying to find workarounds for querying on a NoSQL database, so I built a direct interface for DynamoDB, which I'm cal…

Cool game. The sound keeps glitching on and off. Also, maybe I'm just dumb, but I couldn't figure out where to go or how to land.