The Oracle of Bacon has four nines of availability. It runs on a single VM, uses SQLite, costs under $10/mo, and when I need to upgrade the kernel, I just type “sudo reboot.”

I built a thing!

pgrx, a modern framework for building PostgreSQL extensions in Rust, Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup Join us for our next meetup featuring Patrick Reynolds from PlanetScale, who will share his insights on pgrx, a modern framework for building PostgreSQL extensions in Rust.

Want to learn how to build Postgres extensions in Rust? Our very own @piki.dev is doing a deep dive on pgrx at the Raleigh Triangle Postgres Users Group on March 24th, 5:30pm EDT.

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GitHub - pgcentralfoundation/pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust! Build Postgres Extensions with Rust! Contribute to pgcentralfoundation/pgrx development by creating an account on GitHub.

All the employees at @planetscale.com are sponsoring open source projects and their maintainers today. My choice: @pgrx.bsky.social, which lets us write PostgreSQL extensions using Rust.

github.com/pgcentralfou...

$50 PlanetScale Metal is GA for Postgres Visit blog/50-dollar-planetscale-metal-is-ga-for-postgres

$50 PlanetScale Metal is live.

pscale.link/metal-50

PlanetScale Insights shows you how queries perform, now also find out what they do.

Get a plain-language summary for any query. Available now in the Insights dashboard.

Interested. You building it all, or combining off-the-shelf management and monitoring components?

AI-Powered Postgres index suggestions — PlanetScale Introducing AI-powered index suggestions for PostgreSQL

Postgres databases now come with LLM-powered index recommendations.

Indexes are crucial for database performance, and these recommendations help ensure your queries are executing optimally.

Read about how we built this:
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$5 PlanetScale is live — PlanetScale You can now create single node Postgres databases on PlanetScale starting at just $5.

$5 PlanetScale Postgres is live.

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I think people want AI to be useless, to consume huge amounts of water, etc. because that lets you find another reason for it to be bad that isn’t: it’s useful and that’s why it’s bad. The thing works and is getting better, millions have found use cases for it, and that is why it is bad.

PlanetScale now supports Postgres.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Detroit-style pizza is better than NY or Chicago-style.

Birth rates and male mental health/loneliness are both legitimate societal issues that also unfortunately have been adopted as causes by the worst people imaginable

A photo of Gretchen Whitmer in the Oval Office with Trump, hiding her face behind a folder

I would have voted for her in a 2024 Dem primary but it’s safe to say that she is toast in a 2028 primary

YouGov just dropped a poll that includes intvs from yesterday/this am and just wow - Trump's job approval is 41%-54% (-13). Economist/YouGov yesterday was just 43%-51% (-8).
- Indies 30%-61% (-31)
- 18-29 30%-65%(-35)
- Hisp 35%-61% (-26)
Dude is melting down.
(h/t @sjclermont.bsky.social)

Talking to my database: "Which [post] got more likes?" Claude generates a query that includes a join between the Post table and the LikedPosts table, followed by a GROUP BY.

MCP = Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic invented for getting LLMs to talk to the outside world. Seems like a Tron reference?

Here's an example where Claude generated a query with both LEFT JOIN and GROUP BY in it. It's pretty good at writing SQL for all the things I've tried so far.

Just talking to my databases in plain English

Directed by Lance Bangs, from Jackass

At the risk of overinterpreting an innocent coincidence, April 20th is Hitler’s birthday

asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality

From Nov 7:

Allison Riggs won the election for NC Supreme Court. Changing the rules after the election to throw out the votes of tens of thousands of North Carolinians who followed all of the rules is a travesty.

/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach.

They should get the sticks.

How many of those 65,000 voters have moved (within the state or not) or died? Likely over a thousand — it’s been five months.

Those votes were perfectly legal at the time even if the voter is unreachable now.

🍿

But also, a very bad precedent to say Republicans can just re-run any election they lose.

North Carolina Democrats WILL fight this decision. But make no mistake, the statewide court of appeals bench has cowered to political pressure and corruption from their own party. The NCGOP and RNC are trying to steal an election and test the waters for future election denial.

There are twelve streets in the Netherlands and eight more in Belgium called John F Kennedylaan.