Member of database staff @PlanetScale
Joined December 2009
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Ah yes the “soul-crushing” work of
“Generating puzzles and coding problems to train AI models” for 500k a year.
This headline is pretty accurate based on Meta folks I’ve been talking with
Meta is successfully destroying their formerly standout engineering culture: forcefully assigning standout devs to this unit the layoffs
It makes no rational sense. Hiring from Meta never been easier!
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Heard some teenagers talking this morning “I hit chest so hard this week it still hurts”
Hell yes, good work little guy
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Yeah okay I think I'm a @PlanetScale metal super fan now. It's very freeing to know you can hit a cheeky 100k/iops out of nowhere and nothing melts down. Never going back to EBS.
Aaaaand just shaved off likely 7M DB calls using @PlanetScale Insights (via the MCP). I've never enjoyed Postgres as much as I enjoy it right now. Thank you @0x15f for the idea.
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Jun 3
Since when are managers allowed to have ideas. We tell them what to think
Jun 3
if your manager ever asks you what your ideas are for what you should be doing leave immediately get a new job as quickly as possible
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May 29
A database so fast you don't need caching
Aaaaaaaand another service/package removed because @PlanetScale is very fast.
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May 30
8k steps, eataly cappuccino and a sweetgreen slop bowl. The perfect suburbs Saturday
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May 29
My token spend is way lower this month. Because I’m using composer.
I’m not using it to save money, I just like that it’s fast
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May 28
I'm so excited to announce that I've joined @PlanetScale as a content creator / educator! This is going to be huge. Lots of great stuff coming up.
Stay tuned...
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May 26
“Can’t wait to see the bot replies to my tweet by some loser dudes trying to build their online presence” he said to himself as he hit Post
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May 26
Found some code that was doing something 2,000 times when it could be optimized to happen 15 times instead. These are the moments we live for
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May 22
We're hiring "Software Engineer - Postgres Internals" to work on my team at @PlanetScale.
Let's help the community to make @PostgreSQL even better for more 30years.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/pla…
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May 19
Says 50mg but feels like 500
Suddenly feeling like attaching a 196core nvme vitess cluster to my personal blog
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May 19
2019 was technological masturbation. you cared more about state management libraries than the value the app they were being used for was providing. leaning into product and outcomes is infinitely more fulfilling than that bikeshedding bullshit.
i feel like the golden age of software engineering was ~2019
> pay was good
> job market was good
> being able to code meant something
> pre LLMs so you still had to use your brain
> pre pandemic so you appreciated when you could work from home but didn't expect it
in 2026 engineering just doesn't seem to scratch the same itch for me anymore
i wonder what will replace it
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To everyone affected by the stainless acquisition:
We’ve been very happy with @speakeasydev for our sdks for years
To this day they are still producing the highest quality sdks.
This is investment advice
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May 16
- Marketing automation. Every GitHub release of @AkkaDotNET , make a graphic using @htmlcsstoimage , a twitter thread, a LinkedIn thread, and post them all only after I approve.
- Engineering automation. Receive webhooks from Seq when failures occur in @getsdkbin and investigate
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May 16
Immaculate walking weather!!
Saturday's Weather Rating: 10/10
🥳🎉THE FIRST PERFECT DAY OF 2026!!! High temperatures reach the upper 70s with comfortable dew points, sunny skies and a southerly breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there!!
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May 16
Highly paid tech people need to stfu
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May 15
okay help me out guys
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