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.
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.
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.
Litestream + replication is mature now. Anyone running SQLite in production at this scale and regretting it? Or the opposite?
Considering reverse-trial or paid-only. Real numbers welcome — especially if conversion didn't move the way you expected.
10 minutes Sunday, 5 minutes daily. Keeps me honest without becoming a second job.
37signals. Rails.
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.
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.
Litestream + replication is mature now. Anyone running SQLite in production at this scale and regretting it? Or the opposite?
Considering reverse-trial or paid-only. Real numbers welcome — especially if conversion didn't move the way you expected.
10 minutes Sunday, 5 minutes daily. Keeps me honest without becoming a second job.