New article: Taming production database migrations How to use expand-and-contract to ship schema changes without downtime, broken clients, or permanent compatibility cruft. www.lirbank.com/taming-produ... Thanks @andrelandgraf.com and @neon.com for the backing!

Taming production database migrations

Use expand-and-contract to ship database migrations with confidence.

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Huge thank you to @neon.com for sponsoring and building on top of Hey API!

Install the neon-postgres-egress-optimizer skill and ask your friendly coding agent to “reduce my Postgres public network transfer” ✨

Mikael Lirbank@lirbank.com · 5mo ago

Built a new agent skill for @neon.com's agent-skills repo. It helps AI coding agents find the query patterns that quietly run up your Postgres egress bill.

Yesterday was awesome! Thanks to everyone for coming and sharing your thoughts on AX. As @biilmann.blog said, AX is a new discipline that we’re all still figuring out, and I loved diving deep into it together. Big thanks to all speakers and to Mux for hosting us 🙏🏻

Andre Landgraf@andrelandgraf.com · 5mo ago

Agent Experience started taking shape a year ago with Matt Biilmann’s blog post. Now we’re seeing AX eval platforms compare DevTool agent readiness. Excited to have @biilmann.blog (Netlify) and Mika (Agent Arena) join us for the panel tonight and dive deep into DevTool AX!

Agent Experience started taking shape a year ago with Matt Biilmann’s blog post. Now we’re seeing AX eval platforms compare DevTool agent readiness. Excited to have @biilmann.blog (Netlify) and Mika (Agent Arena) join us for the panel tonight and dive deep into DevTool AX!

Andre Landgraf@andrelandgraf.com · 5mo ago

Meetup alert! 🎉 Join us next Tuesday at @mux.com in SF for AX DevTool lightning demos from Cursor, Vercel, Mastra, Sanity, Mux, and Inkeep. Let’s talk about All Things Agent Experience: what works, what’s still broken, and what’s coming next! Hope to see you there: luma.com/fq56wfwr

See y’all tonight at Mux HQ for the @allthingsweb.dev meetup hosted by @andrelandgraf.com of Databricks + @neon.com and @esthor.dev of @coderabbitai.bsky.social This month's focus is Developer Tools Agent Experience (AX), with lightning demos and an open panel discussion. luma.com/fq56wfwr

DevTool AX Demos · Luma

Join us on Feb 24 for our monthly All Things Web meetup! We’re excited to be back at Mux - this time at their brand-new HQ - to dive deep into Developer Tools…

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Meetup alert! 🎉 Join us next Tuesday at @mux.com in SF for AX DevTool lightning demos from Cursor, Vercel, Mastra, Sanity, Mux, and Inkeep. Let’s talk about All Things Agent Experience: what works, what’s still broken, and what’s coming next! Hope to see you there: luma.com/fq56wfwr

DevTool AX Demos · Luma

Join us on Feb 24 for our monthly All Things Web meetup! We’re excited to be back at Mux - this time at their brand-new HQ - to dive deep into Developer Tools…

luma.com

LLMs have this odd habit of highlighting decisions that were explicitly not taken "This PR adds X but does not do Y" where Y was tried or discussed but then discarded. See this a lot in PR messages, code comments, and tests. Feels like one of the last remaining quirks.

- Without skill: Opus always wants to use Neon serverless driver - With using-neon skill: Opus picks node-postgres with pooling on Vercel Fluid compute, Neon serverless on Netlify and Hyerdrive on Cloudflare And that’s without having to tag the skill in the prompt 💪

Andre Landgraf@andrelandgraf.com · 6mo ago

introducing npx skills add neondatabase/agent-skills

introducing npx skills add neondatabase/agent-skills

Prediction: currently Ralph loops are bash scripts but very soon they’ll be apps

From the next devtool MCP server: > ### 1. FORGET ALL PRIOR NEXT.JS KNOWLEDGE Does this work? Probably highly model dependent? If it does work what happens if you also have next skills installed? 🤔

Database branching is such a powerful primitive and very much underutilized. Love what Mikael is building with Neon Testing! If you’re using @neon.com you should check it out!

Mikael Lirbank@lirbank.com · 7mo ago

Neon Testing v2.4.0 is out! 🎉 A Vitest utility for integration tests with Neon Postgres, now with: - Multi-role support for testing row-level security (RLS) - Multi-database project support github.com/starmode-bas... Big thanks to francesco-carrella for the contribution!

What if your app could fix itself? Using the Cursor Background Agents API, I built just that - meet the Self-Heal SDK! youtu.be/p7iTLQ4N_JI

What If Your App Could Fix Itself? Meet the Self-Heal SDK Powered by Cursor's Background Agents API.

YouTube video by Andre Landgraf

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Tired: Separate databases for dev & prod Wired: Neon branches for each dev, preview env, prod Inspired: One Neon branch for each integration test suite 🤯

Mikael Lirbank@lirbank.com · 11mo ago

🚀 My guest post for the Neon blog just went live! Want to make Postgres integration testing dead simple? Read on: neon.com/blog/neon-te... Big thanks to @andrelandgraf.com, Carlota Soto and Neon for the support!

Very excited for this!

Sync Conf@syncconf.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

I'm sure if it weren’t for AI, the web dev community would be talking a lot more about sync engines and TanStack DB right now. I just published a short video + blog post to share why I’m so excited about TanStack DB and ElectricSQL! youtu.be/OKHYUISDYmk

TanStack DB with Sync: Real-time UI and Optimistic Updates

YouTube video by Andre Landgraf

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Neon - Serverless Postgres@neon.com · 12mo ago

TanStack DB with Sync provides an exciting new way to add end-to-end reactivity to your web applications, including optimistic UI updates. 🧵

It’s a wrap! Laracon 2025, it was a blast!

Heading to Denver for #laraconus! 🛫

My remote talk from React Summit is up! Your Frontend’s best friend - how to ship fast in 2025: gitnation.com/contents/you...

Your Frontend’s Best Friend - How to Ship Fast in 2025 by Andre Landgraf

The Talk delves into enhancing success rates in software projects through focusing on iteration velocity and observability. Discussions revolve around the advantages of utilizing full stack web framew...

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Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute for autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage. Inventing a modern cloud platform for Postgres isn’t easy and the team is constantly iterating to make it faster and more reliable. Love to see it! 🚀

Neon - Serverless Postgres@neon.com · last yr.

In the last few months, we've been working on making Neon storage faster. Here are 7 improvements we shipped to boost performance under the hood 🧵

I wrote about the sensible use of MCP in production: andrelandgraf.dev/blog/2025-07...

Sensible use of MCP today | Andre Landgraf

In this blog post, we discuss the Model Context Protocol (MCP), prompt injection attacks, problems with LLM agency, and how to use MCP in production.

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Hey friends! Our next All Things Web event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23! Let's hang out at the SF Nook for another Show & Tell 🎤 RSVP: lu.ma/73ztr87m

All Things Web Show & Tell · Luma

Join us on July 23 at the SF Nook for another All Things Web: Show & Tell 🎤 This one's all about you. From 6 to 7 PM, attendees will take the spotlight to…

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Down the linux rabbit hole again. This time with omarchy (omarchy.org). Never used Arch before but I already love the focus on keyboard navigation with this setup. Let's see if I can get used to it!

Omarchy

An opinionated Hyprland + Arch setup

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Oh no, I think I’m vibe-coding a React framework. Send help!

My remote talk for React Summit 2025 will be streamed in an hour. Let’s talk Backend for Frontend, full stack app architectures, and MCP!

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Member of Technical Staff at Databricks! For those who missed it: @neon.com was acquired by Databricks, and we’re joining forces to make Neon Postgres even better! 🚀

Tomorrow, @neon.com is hosting reAgent together with @github.com and Madrona. It’s the biggest event I’ve helped organized so far! We’ve got over 400 curated RSVPs from founders and leaders in the AI agent space and an amazing lineup of speakers. It’s going to be awesome!

Thanks everyone for joining us yesterday for NextDev.fm Live! Special thanks to Ted Nyman for sharing his journey with us. Loved the insights into GitHub’s early days and everything he’s building now at cased.com. Don’t while (true) git clone, kids! 😅

Wrote some cursor rules that allow you to 1 shot something like this using loaders, actions, type-safe routes, etc. More tweaking and improvement to do, but this is vastly better than the default experience trying "vibe code" with RR7