The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.

Your periodic reminder that even most distributed databases use consensus for both determining who *the single writer is* and for replicating the data.

Consensus has nothing to do with sharding or multiple writers.

PostgreSQL 18 is released!

LIQUIDATION ALERT
$6,670,000,000 in shorts will get liquidated if $BTC
hits $100K.

ELON MUSK: "I tried to get a job at Netscape. I sent my resume, but I don't think they ever saw my resume & nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby of Netscape to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy at talking to anyone. So, I started my own company."

Someone shared a fascinating visual of an AI agent moving through a real codebase - reviewing structures, making decisions, and committing changes.

It’s a reminder that software development is quietly entering a new phase.

And up next we've got Jeff Swenson chatting about Cheating the CAP Theorem.

I think there definitely is a vibe shift among experienced programmers.

Minimize dependencies. Invest more in comprehensive standard libraries. (JavaScript and Rust notably have the least comprehensive standard libraries.)