the actual blue shed, going up
Twenty-three of these went up on Medium between 2021 and 2025. Postgres doing the work Redis was brought in for, async all the way down, stored functions instead of a middle tier, and a recurring argument that most of what we build is plumbing that shouldn't exist.
Each one opens with a photograph taken here in west Wales. That isn't decoration, and it isn't a stock library. Writing about code all day and then walking out into that is most of the reason any of it gets finished.
A journey into realtime computing with Postgres, Bun, and the reactive gang.
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or the disappeared middleware!
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A review of "Good" by C.P. Taylor and the National Theatre Live
The other day I had a phone called with a loved one — that's a family member. He said we are living in a post-truth world, refering to the state of…
A scene from "The Walrus and the Carpenter", by Lewis Carroll, drawn by Sir John Tenniel in 1871.
Ramsey Sound, Westest Wales
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When the other speaks, and you hear, the shock is visceral. Your world grows and changes for the better. For me it happened at a Virginia Woolf…
SqlAlchemy 1.4 now supports asyncio
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the weather in here
Putting the live weather in a Vue menubar, from a curl to wttr.in to a component.
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I love Vue and Vite — what a wonderful development experience. But I love Python for its Tornado, SQLAlchemy and so much more. So here is a tip of…