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Damir Bulic, making database software. Made a ton of other things as well, but that's another story.

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    It is nerfed even just for plans. It switches to Opus in the first few minutes of me trying to build a plan to extract a component out of my larger codebase. Trying to minimize pri…

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    Comment #48196325

    Validation is trivial, I simply used BenchmarkDotNet test and had AI flip git between latest HEAD state and current state. Optimization is where the real work was - but also fun be…

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    Comment #48094222

    Safe Boundary, a database security proxy especially optimized for AI agents: https://www.spectralcore.com/safeboundary Launching for Postgres very soon (currently working on Supaba…

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    Comment #47472264

    Wire transfer is a bank transfer, not money wire to Western Union and like.

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    Comment #46978785

    This is not necessarily true. Wrong monetization can be the killing blow. Market can change and your business model which used to work can suddenly fall apart. A recent example for…

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    Comment #46547391

    I have recently asked my LinkedIn audience if my company should build a great PostgreSQL IDE. That's my wish for many years, and I know exactly where we can provide significant val…

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    Comment #46542886

    We do exactly that in one of our products. It's called data profiling.

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    Comment #46082731

    Hi guys, Great to see something fresh in this space. Good luck! We are building something fairly similar but haven't launched yet. Competition will make all of us do a better job.

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    Comment #46078122

    I went indie some 20 years ago because I needed money and I wanted full control over my life. Did some things right but many things wrong. Unfortunately, there is a price to pay to…

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    Comment #45981114

    Such a cool side project. And with LiveReload!

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    Comment #45898841

    A bit off-topic, bit hiring exceptional .NET developers is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Way more people have a ton of experience with JS and marginal experience with …

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    Comment #45801958

    A lovely language with an incredible web framework (Phoenix, LiveView). However, not easy to pick up for people with only imperative programming experience. I had to switch my proj…

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    Comment #43830482

    Postgres is a better choice for 99% of the companies out there. But there are cases where you need ability to massively scale AND control your database cluster perfectly. Postgres …

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    Comment #43785112

    Google SQL has it now: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/simpli... It's pretty neat: FROM mydataset.Produce |> WHERE sales > 0 |> AGGREGATE SUM(sales) AS total_…

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    I didn't look into the code structure - 60 contributors mean that yes, there is a problem. People start something with good intentions, then the project grows to the point where it…

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    Comment #43632366

    Just for the context, I've been making (and selling) database (migration/translation) tools for 20-ish years. What you have built can definitely become a product supporting you wit…

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    Skew wasn't just a little bit faster than TypeScript. According to Evan Wallace (former Figma CTO), it was 1.5x to 2x faster due to better optimizations enabled by stricter type sy…

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    Comment #35986426

    I will just put this here: https://youtu.be/WAf1_zWThyE?t=526

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    Comment #31390528

    Scripting data movement is easy only for small and easy jobs. With many thousands of tables and more than a few TB, all kinds of issues start popping up. I read somewhere that 85% …

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    Comment #30674994

    CodeMirror is promising. Monaco is huge and clunky to integrate, but it works really well once you get past the steep learning curve. It has everything one needs to build a full ID…

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    AFAIK HN does not have DMs. However, Twitter does and Steve has a Twitter post linked above.

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    Comment #30328732

    Full Convert can copy data between over 40 database formats. https://www.spectralcore.com/fullconvert Disclosure: I am the Spectral Core CEO (and author of Full Convert).