Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data for their areas.
For about five years, my instinct when working…

We talk about querying system wide I/O statistics in Postgres, show several use cases for pg_stat_io, and talk about the future of I/O observability in Postgres.

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Elsevier’s retractions focus on peer review and conflicts of interest.

Creating validated data types in Postgres

Introduction What is Kubernetes? I have been working on this technology since the beginning and after 8 years, I’m still having a problem defining what it is. Some people define Kubernetes as a container orchestrator but does that definition capture the essence…

Many people, when they are installing a Linux distribution for a single
purpose such as
running containers, would prefer an install-and-forget
type of deployment. At FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels, several
projects of this minimal Linux distribution type were presented.…

Basically the noscript. Amazon is calling employees back to office 3 days a week starting 5/1! Employers have all the leverage right now given the

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has added to its already-massive holding of Apple stock. In a filing today, the conglomerate revealed...

On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias…

Amazon will require its employees to work from the office at least three days per week, effective May 1, the company announced Friday.

Web hosting giant GoDaddy says it suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year attack.

Welcome to Twilio's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design applicationwhich helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would prohibit employers from enforcing arbitration agreements that workers sign before disputes arise. However, the measure may face resistance in the Senate.

I relocated for a three month expertise acceleration experiment in Judo. These are my notes from two months in: what I learnt, what was hard, and what deliberate practice actually feels like.

Office vacancies have increased across the country since the pandemic made working remotely more routine.

Intuit spent more than $3.5 million on federal lobbying in 2022 — a new record for the leading tax prep company, which owns TurboTax.

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s small circumnavigating pico balloon is “missing in action.”