Iheanyi Ekechukwu

@iheanyi.com

🇳🇬, computer dude, hip-hop lover. software eng at Stripe. previously at PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and IBM Watson.

⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡ - Blazing fast NVMe drives - Unlimited IOPS - Drastic reductions in latency - And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP

It's now easier than ever to get notified of events of your newsletter in your Discord server. This is great for notifying your servers' members of new emails :)

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

My daily driver » Ghostty » tmux » Neovim » Lazyvim » Berkeley Mono font I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.

Screenshot of a terminal window with Neovim open inside tmux inside Ghostty

The old way: migrating our largest MySQL table takes 70-80 days and can contribute to occasional latency spikes. The new way on PlanetScale: migrating our largest MySQL table takes less than a week and Just Works.

I regret to inform you that I've been working out daily (peloton) and I think it is having positive impacts on my mood and energy. I wish it were otherwise as I hate working out.