Coding

Pragmatic notes on developer tools, languages, and workflows. Shortcuts, tricks, and lessons from actually shipping code.

Postgres queues thousands of jobs a second, skip Kafka

Use Postgres FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED and LISTEN/NOTIFY to build a durable job queue doing 3,000-5,000 messages per second without Kafka or RabbitMQ.

A practical comparison of Fish 4, Zsh, and Nushell covering defaults, plugins, startup time, and POSIX compatibility for devops and desktop use.

DuckDB queries CSV, Parquet, and JSON files with no server and no import step. Run vectorized SQL analytics in-process from Python, Node, or Rust.

Set up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces and Ruff for one shared lockfile, one venv, sub-second cold installs, and unified lint and format.

Gemini CLI shut down on 18 June 2026. Migrate to the closed-source Antigravity CLI, keep Gemini running with an API key, and see the new quotas.

Build single-binary CLI dashboards with Go and Bubble Tea. Create terminal UIs with live data, responsive layouts, and keyboard navigation.