I noticed a new folder in File Explorer last week called Secure Boot and I almost deleted it. It appeared after a routine cumulative update (a single patch that bundles security fixes,…
This is the week that Brave decided to give Linux users a free browser that costs $59.99 for everyone else, Canonical remembered that ARM64 servers exist, and a small tiling window manager…
I have spent the last three years working with developer communities across West Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and the open source struggle I have seen there does not match the…
Our Virtual Conference Used These Open Source Tools (And Saved $80,000) I helped organize a 700-person virtual conference last year, and the entire thing was built on open source tools. Stage production,…
I Got More Productive By Embracing Guilt: Here’s What I Learned I am a person who feels guilty when I do not work. I have felt this way since I was about…
There’s a moment in the life of every successful product where the database quietly stops being the easiest part of the system. For a long time, you can run a Postgres (PostgreSQL,…
I paid Claude roughly $20 a month for everyday questions, weather lookups, and the occasional weekend study guide for my kid. Then I read Nolen Jonker’s piece on XDA Developers, where they…
What Is a Database Transaction? The Practical Guide for Developers Who Use Them Every Day Most developers use database transactions every day without thinking about them. The SQL is BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK.…
Zvec: Alibaba’s Lightning-Fast In-Process Vector Database, and Why It Matters Alibaba open-sourced Zvec in late 2025. Zvec is an in-process vector database written in Rust. The benchmarks are impressive (2-4x faster than…
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