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There are many good reasons to use NoSQL instead of a "full SQL database". OTOH I can relate to your experience, I remember colleagues switching to MongoDB because they couldn't ge…

I will read this entire article tomorrow while I wait for the Cursor UI and Visual Studio to finish loading.

I remember installing an emulator (Mednafen) on Arch Linux about a decade ago. The program failed to run because it was linked against a library my system didn't have. Turns out, t…

My previous employer fired all front-end developers a few years ago, we went back from tons of frameworks (Vue/jQuery/Ruby/Nextjs) to simple HTML and CSS. Turns out dedicated front…

AI slop

Yeah, not subscribing to a website just to read an article probably written by an AI

Store your Bitcoin private key in a password manager. Would you really give out your keyvault master password to them?

Me too, really...

I assumed there is always some technical documentation/app architecture and some mandatory (server side) security you have to follow, but reading this I'm being too optimistic.

Thanks for the tip, I will check if inserting rows with Go is any faster. For reference, inserting a log takes three steps, first the log data is stored in a Redis Stream (memory),…

It uses both, MySQL for the metadata and ClickHouse for the logs. The selfhost page explains a bit more about the architecture. edit: the connection to ClickHouse uses the MySQL dr…

Hello everyone, there are many log services available and this is my attempt at a better one. Most online logging tools feature convoluted UIs, arbitrary mandatory fields, question…