Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.
Migrating a 1TB PostgreSQL from AWS to Azure with pgcopydb
How we used pgcopydb to migrate a 1TB PostgreSQL database from AWS to Azure, covering migration strategies, Kubernetes execution, and the pitfalls we encountered along the way.
Open source is critical infrastructure, not just a development model
Open source has moved beyond development model and cost strategy — it's now critical global infrastructure. Here's what the Linux Foundation Member Summit revealed about sovereignty, AI economics, and where the ecosystem is heading.
pgit: What If Your Git History Was a SQL Database? - Oliver Seifert
I built a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL with delta compression. Benchmarked on 20 real repos totaling 274k commits, it outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories while making your entire commit history SQL-queryable.
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...
That's a real stretch | U.S. Says Anthropic Is an ‘Unacceptable’ National Security Risk
In a legal filing, the government said it questioned whether the A.I. start-up could be a “trusted partner” in wartime, which led it to label the company a supply chain risk.
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
Most developers now use coding assistants. I do too—Copilot at work, Claude Code at home. As a developer, I prefer not to repeat myself. This post explains why and how to avoid repetition as a skill. Don’t Repeat Yourself The DRY principle has been present in the software development field for ages. The idea is that if you copy and paste code in multiple places and a bug appears, you’ll need to fix the bug in all these places.
My custom agent used 87% fewer tokens when I gave it Skills for its MCP tools
Today’s web apps don’t seem particularly concerned about resource consumption. The simplest site seems to eat up hundreds of MB of memory in my browser. We’ve probably gotten a bi…