I love it when I learn something new. It's even better when I learn multiple things. I've been using Postgres for over 20 years and I didn't know about auto_explain and fastupdate on GIN indexes. One of my favorite things to do is tune queries to respond faster. Nothing like taking a query that takes 15 seconds and getting it down to 15 milliseconds. We use GIN indexes a bit but we don't have a high volume of writes so we haven't run into the slowness that you talk about. If we do see any write performance issues, I definitely know where to start looking. Thanks for your article!

Thank you for this article about the Kinesis. A good friend of mine loves his and every once in a while I consider trying it but I've worried about all that muscle memory. Your review was very thorough and I really appreciate it. I think I'll let my friend enjoy his, but I won't be moving to one anytime soon.

I like how the article describes how certificates work for both client and server. I know a little bit about it but what I read helps to reinforce what I already know and it taught me something new. I appreciate it when someone takes the time to explain things like this.

Thanks! I didn't intentionally write this for a broader audience (I didn't expect to see it while casually opening HN!). Our user base is quite diverse, so I try to find the balance between being too technical and over-explanatory. Glad it was helpful!

I've loved programming my whole life. Something happens inside my brain when I'm solving a problem. I think it's a release of endorphins or something that has a calming effect. When I was younger, it came easier. I used to be able to get "into the zone" and stay there for hours. Almost a constant stream of endorphins, almost a euphoria. Other things give me a similar feeling. Anything with numbers. I used to really love playing blackjack. Something about figuring out how to get to 21 just really did it for me. Or playing dominoes or other games that require me to solve something. I'm almost 65 now and it's just much more difficult to get there. I think I've been slow to adopt AI partly because I'm afraid it's going to take me further away from what I've loved. Friends tell me it's just a new tool to add to my toolbox. I'm giving it a try but I'm still skeptical.

I remember those things. One of the first computers I programmed on starting my career in 1984. We had a variation of the Tower, I think it was called the 'iTower'. It didn't run Unix. instead it ran an OS called rmCOS from the Ryan McFarland company. Same people who made RMCobol. The OS was kind of similar to Texas Instruments DX10 operating system. I believe RM was involved in that too. I remember having to divvy up the ram per user. I think the max a user could get was 64k. You could get an expansion cabinet with additional hard drives. The expansion was the same size as the Tower computer. The big thing they were touting was that it used SCSI for connecting disk and tape drives. Later, I learned UNIX and we ported our software and ran it on the 1632. The article also mentions the 9300 which I also had the opportunity to program. Those were good days!

I'm a bit color blind and it might be quite common to show errors in red but when the background is black, I can't see it at all.

Neither can I. Luckily tweaking the colours can make it somewhat readable. (Sometimes…)

I've been using Git for 9 years and I learn new stuff all the time. This podcast episode dives into all of the questions I've had over the years and touches on some new things that I didn't know about.

Git is an amazing tool for managing your source code. Lots of people use it every day but most people barely scratch the surface of what git can do.

In this episode, we dive in and explain lots of features from the simple to the complex.