Still writing SQL by hand in 2026
ORM-free continues to pay dividends. The query plan is the program. If you can't read an EXPLAIN, you can't debug your app.
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DHH@dhh
37signals. Rails.
Still writing SQL by hand in 2026
ORM-free continues to pay dividends. The query plan is the program. If you can't read an EXPLAIN, you can't debug your app.
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We deleted our AWS bill and saved $2M/year
The on-prem migration is done. Six weeks of pain, eighteen months of savings. Here's the cost breakdown, the hardware we chose, and the two things we'd do differently if we restarted today.
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Postgres vs SQLite for a 100k-user SaaS in 2026?
Litestream + replication is mature now. Anyone running SQLite in production at this scale and regretting it? Or the opposite?
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When did you stop offering free trials and what happened to MRR?
Considering reverse-trial or paid-only. Real numbers welcome — especially if conversion didn't move the way you expected.
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My weekly review template (Notion + paper)
10 minutes Sunday, 5 minutes daily. Keeps me honest without becoming a second job.
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