Source: https://github.com/nwnuyhs/flatbb (MIT; added after the comments below asked for it) I've just released Flatbb 0.1.5, a flat, lightweight forum written in plain PHP 8.1. MIT licensed, free. No framework, no Composer, no build step. Upload, open the installer, done in 2 minutes. Runs on the
Got tired of getting billed every time a Zapier polling trigger ran just to find zero new rows. Last week I finally bit the bullet and migrated all 42 of our workflows over to a self-hosted n8n instance. The cost difference is honestly ridiculous: Before: - Zapier Pro: $89/mo - Make Pro: $159/mo - T
A customer writes in: "my last three orders are missing." Someone has to open a database and look.
We built an AI agent that does that part. It reads the ticket, forms a hypothesis, queries the customer's own systems, and writes up what it found with the queries attached as evidence. Useful. Also,
The decision took about nine minutes.
It was the start of a new product — VirtualRx, a business-management app for
small retailers in Lagos. Point of sale, inventory, invoices, the lot. I
needed a database, I had a schema roughly in my head, and MongoDB let me
start writing code that afternoon inst
There's a phrase I keep seeing everywhere in AI development:
"We need an AI agent."
Need to analyze documents?
Build an agent.
Need to automate a workflow?
Build an agent.
Need to interact with APIs?
Build an agent.
Need to write code?
Build an agent.
At some point, I started asking a diff
Hey everyone, We recently finished migrating 42 active automation workflows from a combined Zapier + Make setup onto a self-hosted n8n instance. Wanted to share the real-world TCO breakdown, architecture choices, and trade-offs for anyone considering the jump. ### The Financial Breakdown (Monthly):
At work, I kept writing the same thing: a few analytics tables, a cron job to rebuild them, and the same SQL copy-pasted into three models. Change one definition, forget to update one copy, and suddenly two dashboards quietly disagree. There’s `dbt`, which solves this problem for data teams, but it
The following scene is a composite on-call pattern, not a personal claim about one employer. A checkout query crossed its p95 budget during a mid-afternoon spike, and the reviewer copied the plan. The paste included actual rows, shared hit counts, and a filter on a customer email that should never l
#663 — September 2, 2026
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Read Your Own Writes Off the Primary: WAIT FOR Measured — Last week, we shared an item explaining what Postgres 19's WAIT FOR is. Now, Radim puts it to the test: naive replica reads were stale 992 times out of 1,000 even o
#662 — August 26, 2026
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🏖️ After a week of being Disneyed-out, I return tired, but more ready than ever to dive back into the (far less humid) waters of Postgres!__Your editor, Peter Cooper
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Eight Years of Postgres Advice, Re-Checked Against Postgr
#661 — August 12, 2026
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🏖️ We're taking a summer break next week, so the next issue will be on August 26.__Your editor, Peter Cooper
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Introducing sqlfmt: An SQL gofmt-Style Formatter — Postgres contributor Dimitri has developed his own way to style