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Terminal running ANALYZE on a SQLite in production database
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SQLite in Production: ANALYZE, WAL, and Backups with Litestream

Running SQLite in production is not just about copying the .db file: you need to understand ANALYZE, WAL mode, and how to make backups that actually restore. This guide covers all three with exact commands and code examples.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month18 July, 2026 ago
Open Book Touch, open source e-reader with e-paper display and front light
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Open Book Touch: Open Source E-Reader Raises $46,393 on Crowd Supply

Open Book Touch surpassed its funding goal on Crowd Supply with $46,393 raised. The open source e-reader by Oddly Specific Objects reads EPUB, runs without Linux, and draws less than 1 milliamp.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month17 July, 2026 ago
Comic Chat client interface showing comic characters in an IRC chat
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Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat, the Origin of Comic Sans

Microsoft released the source code of Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that drew every conversation as a comic strip. The GitHub release lets you study how the software automatically generated expressions, gestures, and panels from typed text, and how that interface helped popularize the Comic Sans typeface.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month16 July, 2026 ago
Diagram of the data tools lifecycle: ETL, warehouse, and BI
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ETL, warehouse, and BI: the data tooling map for developers

A developer who lands on a data team hears ETL, warehouse, lakehouse, and reverse ETL in the first meeting and understands none of it. This article maps the full data lifecycle, from source to dashboard, with code examples in SQL, Python, and dbt so any engineer can grasp what each tool does and when to use it.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month16 July, 2026 ago
Diagram of a job queue with producer, broker, and workers
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Job queues: how retries, idempotency, and DLQs work

Job queues decouple the producer from the consumer, but they hide hard problems: duplicate retries, non-idempotent jobs, and messages that never resolve. This article walks through each piece with code examples in BullMQ, SQS, and RabbitMQ.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month16 July, 2026 ago
C code with null pointers and a for loop, comparing K&R C and C++20
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K&R C, null pointers, and the for loop: evolution up to C++20

A technical walkthrough of the most curious quirks in K&R C, the origin of the null pointer problem in C and C++, and how the for loop syntax changed from 1978 to C++20. Includes progressive code examples and commands to reproduce each quirk in your own terminal.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month15 July, 2026 ago
Grok Build terminal, xAI's code agent, running in TUI mode
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xAI Publishes Grok Build’s Code on GitHub, Its Rust CLI

xAI released the source code of Grok Build, its terminal code agent written in Rust. The repository already has nearly 3,900 stars and reuses tools ported from Codex and opencode under the Apache 2.0 license.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month15 July, 2026 ago
Telegram Serverless diagram: a bot running without its own server
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Telegram Serverless: run your bot’s backend without a server

Telegram Serverless lets you write JavaScript modules that run directly on Telegram’s infrastructure, with a SQLite database and HTTP API included. No VPS, no containers, nothing to maintain.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month15 July, 2026 ago

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