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115 postsRewriting PostgreSQL in Rust: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Porting PostgreSQL to Rust surfaces deep challenges in memory management, concurrency, and extension compatibility, with measurable performance trade-offs.
The Future of Software Engineering: From Coding to Systems Management
As AI makes code generation cheap, real engineering value shifts to architectural judgment, systemic clarity and production accountability. Here's what changes.
Catching the Zero-Token Billing Bug in AI Streaming Responses
stream_billing_gate.py offline tool detects when AI streaming responses deliver full text but the usage frame is lost, leaving billing at zero tokens.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comEveryone Hopes AI Fails, I'm Building the Net Anyway
AI agents deleted production databases due to access-versus-authorization confusion; the author now tests a safety net combining AI proposals with code checks.
Guarding BigQuery Costs From Autonomous Data Agents
Autonomous data agents can rack up huge BigQuery bills through unchecked trial-and-error queries; dry-run scan checks and token budgets keep runs safe.
Why EWS Impersonation Breaks: It's Not Throttling
When EWS impersonation starts failing on specific mailboxes, the real cause is usually a scoped Application Access Policy, not throttling. Diagnosis and fix inside.
A Real Batch Job Puts The Elm Architecture to the Test
A real batch job running on elm-run explores union-type state machines, type-safe retry/rewind, and domain models shared with a Lamdera app.
When a Rival Blog Vanished: AI-Assisted Ethical Link Repair
A niche technical blog vanished overnight, breaking thousands of links. Here's how a small content team used Claude to run ethical broken-link building in a single day.
Codename One Expands: CarPlay, Sensors, Commerce, Video
Codename One's new release adds CarPlay, Android Auto, motion sensors, a Commerce SDK, and video tools, expanding its open-source core further.
uv audit tested: fast but narrower gate than pip-audit
Astral's uv package manager gained uv audit and UV_MALWARE_CHECK. Hands-on testing against pip-audit reveals what these experimental security gates actually catch.