Neon and Supabase Are Making PostgreSQL Cool for Indie Hackers
Serverless Postgres with branching, edge functions, and generous free tiers
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
Every Developer Needs an AI Workflow in 2024 (Here’s Mine)
A practical guide to integrating LLMs without losing your mind
Devin Was a Wake-Up Call, Not a Replacement
The first ‘AI software engineer’ demo showed the future—and the enormous gap between demos and reality
Predictions for 2024: What I’m Betting On
RAG goes mainstream, open-source LLMs close the gap, and the framework wars get interesting
Turbopack, Rspack, and the Rust-ification of JavaScript Tooling
The JavaScript ecosystem is being rewritten in Rust, one tool at a time
2023: The Year AI Crashed the Developer Party
A look back at the most disruptive year in software since the smartphone era
Advent of Code Is the Best Professional Development You’re Not Doing
Why solving pointless puzzles makes you a measurably better production engineer
Signals Are Taking Over Frontend Frameworks and React Is Late to the Party
Angular, Solid, Preact, Vue, and Qwik all ship signals—React is the holdout
GitHub Copilot Chat vs. ChatGPT for Coding: Which Actually Ships Better Code?
IDE-integrated AI versus browser-based AI—a head-to-head comparison across real tasks
The State of Containers in 2023: Beyond Docker Compose
Podman, containerd, and the unbundling of the container ecosystem