We have both MySQL and PostgreSQL in our production environment. Postgres is way nicer as a user of the DB. I created a document months ago outlining a dozen different things that Postgres does that MySQL either doesn’t do or does worse. I can’t speak to managing the DB as I don’t have experience with that.

Progressing languages aren’t about computers. They’re about humans.

Yea, what about your liver? Have you asked how it feels today?

Is this accounting for inflated C-suite salaries/stock?

Can you clarify what the distinction is?

I once asked ChatGPT to generate some random numerical passwords as I was curious about its capabilities to generate random data. It told me that it couldn’t. I asked why it couldn’t (I knew why it was resisting but I wanted to see its response) and it promptly gave me a bunch of random numerical passwords.

At what point do I go through their clothes and look for loose change?

Recently: Brotato and RAILGRADE

Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over

Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value

Unity already went the enshittification route

Sure seems like CEOs fit in the category of lazy

I have over a dozen years of experience as a software engineer and I started learning Scala and monads recently for a new job. I’ve come to the conclusion that monads are terrible and make things more difficult despite the on-paper description. Don’t worry about it, you’re much more competent than you think.

Or DA or judge or…

Are we just doing out of order reruns of the 20th century?

I installed one in my garage a bit over 5 years ago and have never had a problem with it. My parents also installed one in their garage several years before that. They did have an issue with it at first but I think they replaced it with a newer version of the charger (same version I have) and haven’t had any issues since then.

I don’t believe that adults actually exist. Everyone is just an overgrown child who occasionally does things that are perceived as “adulting”

ETA: I used to say this as a joke, but as I get older the more I actually believe it

You’re advocating for murder. Consider your choices

I just recently updated a database call to return the last 7 days of data instead of all data from all time. It went from taking 30+seconds to around 2-4 seconds. Still a long way to go to make it “good” but at least it’s not timing out now.

If you think it’s slow, first prove it with a benchmark

So many crimes against maintainability are committed in the name of performance. Optimisation tears down abstractions, exposes internals, and couples tightly. If you’re choosing to shoulder that cost, ensure it is done for good reason.