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by abelanger 28d ago
Whoops sorry, I'll need to size this down but: https://gist.github.com/abelanger5/c513ef259b1b03fe2e5a27b96... Going to create a PR into https://github.com/knobiknows/all-the-bufo later today
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Bufo pulls the andon cord(hatchet.run)
16 points by abelanger 1mo ago|2 comments
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by abelanger 1mo ago
If you really need to merge and deploy, I've been having some luck getting things moving with the gh cli: gh pr review <xx> --approve gh pr merge <xx> --squash --delete-branch Might not help your deploy process
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by abelanger 1mo ago
My wife and I have been playing this game every day for the past few weeks or so. Some of the daily levels are incredibly satisfying. We have very different ways of approaching the harder problems; some of the clues are easier for someone w
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Clues by Sam(cluesbysam.com)
2 points by abelanger 1mo ago|1 comments
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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?(brandur.org)
165 points by abelanger 1mo ago|113 comments
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Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out(macchaffee.com)
2 points by abelanger 1mo ago|0 comments
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Why tech companies are bad (2019)(alexcrompton.com)
3 points by abelanger 1mo ago|0 comments
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Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower(planetscale.com)
2 points by abelanger 1mo ago|0 comments
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Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law(hatchet.run)
2 points by abelanger 1mo ago|0 comments
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by abelanger 1mo ago
Hatchet | Product Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We're h
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Implementing PaxosLease in Python with HTTP Flask(bytepawn.com)
1 points by abelanger 2mo ago|0 comments
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A Treatise on Restaurant Design(substack.com)
2 points by abelanger 2mo ago|0 comments
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Building Online Communities(hintjens.com)
1 points by abelanger 2mo ago|0 comments
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The First Idempotency Key(hatchet.run)
36 points by abelanger 2mo ago|9 comments
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by abelanger 2mo ago
> I do wish the guide was expanded a bit with lots of specific examples and details... a lot of it is hand-wavy blurbs. I appreciate the feedback; I'm usually someone who tends to go into way too much detail, so this was difficult t
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by abelanger 2mo ago
OP here, I appreciate this. > in addition to minimizing locked records, make sure your locks are ordered deterministically across all queries (eg by id asc, always) or you’ll deadlock (but postgres has a really good deadlock detector so
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by abelanger 2mo ago
OP here, I appreciate the feedback! I tried to focus on things which could take down your database, so things like particularly slow reads and writes, autovacuum settings, reducing lock contention, particularly focused on cases that I'
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The startup's Postgres survival guide(hatchet.run)
523 points by abelanger 2mo ago|240 comments
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by abelanger 4mo ago
Hatchet | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We'r
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Durable execution, the hard way(github.com)
64 points by abelanger 4mo ago|3 comments
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by abelanger 5mo ago
> Our analysis revealed the fork-to-star ratio as the strongest simple heuristic for identifying potential manipulation. The logic is straightforward: a star costs nothing and conveys no commitment. A fork means someone downloaded the co
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by abelanger 6mo ago
Candidly we're still trying to figure that out: all of the plumbing is there in the open source, but the actual implementation of writes to S3 are only on the cloud version. This is partially because we're loath to introduce addit
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Supertoast tables(hatchet.run)
56 points by abelanger 6mo ago|12 comments
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)(tovejansson.com)
223 points by abelanger 7mo ago|123 comments
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Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)(blog.trailofbits.com)
13 points by abelanger 7mo ago|0 comments
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by abelanger 7mo ago
Author here - I'm also generally skeptical of coding agents, but with the right problem domain and approach they can produce quality output when paired with humans. There was a point in time in the chess world where computer + human wa
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by abelanger 7mo ago
Hi, thanks! To be clear, the demo there is merely a WASM-based Ghostty build which is rendering the TUI on a web page, just so people could try it out without needing to install anything. The actual TUI runs in your terminal. I'm guess
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by abelanger 7mo ago
Hi everyone, I enjoyed building this TUI for myself and wanted to write down how I did it. I appreciate all the thoughts and feedback! The web app is our main investment, but I think there's a slice of developers who really like to int
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by abelanger 7mo ago
You're right - I'll remove that now until we can get it more performant or drop it altogether. This wasn't something we caught during testing. I appreciate the feedback!

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