Software Engineer at @planetscale. Go, Rust, Linux, networking, and open source software. On and ever upward. he/him.

Joined February 2011
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22 Dec 2025
PlanetScale and I just sponsored @dominikh: staticcheck is crucial for every project we build and we are so grateful for your work. Happy holidays from @PlanetScale!
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29 Aug 2025
We are bringing this power to Postgres neki.dev/
29 Aug 2025
PlanetScale is a beast. Our largest workload there has 256 shards and 300 TB (!) of data. Queries respond at ~10ms (p99) at peak hours. Just bonkers.
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29 Aug 2025
PlanetScale is a beast. Our largest workload there has 256 shards and 300 TB (!) of data. Queries respond at ~10ms (p99) at peak hours. Just bonkers.
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29 Aug 2025
PlanetScale uses Cursor to build PlanetScale, which Cursor then uses to build Cursor, which PlanetScale uses to build PlanetScale, and so on.
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We’ve been hard at work building the most scalable and reliable sharding solution for Postgres. A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography. Say hello to Neki.
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2 Aug 2025
We're looking for new Software Engineers at @PlanetScale. Ideally you're a great fit for this role if you enjoy working autonomously, are comfortable collaborating with multiple teams, and have a deep understanding of distributed systems and Go.
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just moved one of the Atuin databases over to @PlanetScale nicest managed postgres I've used yet đź’Ş
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11 Jul 2025
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The project nobody has seen yet is Nova. Vitess for Postgres. Built from first principles, not using Vitess. We have spent 4 years sharding some of the world's largest databases. Those learnings will inform an architecture bespoke to Postgres. Only PlanetScale can do this.
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I’ll be sharing regular updates on two products: our sharded Postgres offering, and the high-performance, resilient Postgres product we shipped today.
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this tbh
PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
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PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
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It’s time to dive into hell with @itsmecraiglee. #FreedomConquersAll #TheGameAwards
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13 Dec 2024
Super stoked to see that more than a million Helldivers have made planetfall in the last 24 hours! @helldivers2
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

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John McCain and I didn’t always agree, but he understood that some values transcended parties. He knew that if we got in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work. John McCain had character. That’s what I think about so much these days because it’s so different from what we see out of the Republican nominee.
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16 Oct 2024
1. Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. Today @FTC finalized a rule requiring that businesses make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
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Thanks for helping us fill in the range from Framework Laptop 0 to Framework Laptop 100.
4 Oct 2024
Replying to @FrameworkPuter
@FrameworkPuter let us know when you're ready for the 15" wide screen framework 🤙 I'm hiding the designs until I receive $1,000,000 in pennies.
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