ClickHouse Managed Postgres uses WAL-aware backpressure to prevent a WAL backlog from filling the disk and triggering a PANIC. clickhouse.com/blog/wal-bac... Client writes slow while the archiver drains at full speed. When the backlog clears, the cap lifts automatically.

What is WAL backpressure, and why does ClickHouse Managed Postgres need it? | ClickHouse

How ClickHouse Managed Postgres uses WAL-aware backpressure to slow client writes, protect disk space, and let the archiver recover.

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Welcome to ClickHouse, @andypavlo.bsky.social 👋 clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pa...

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

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Lmao gottem

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

This is now a Go proposal!

proposal: crypto/passkey: new package · Issue #80663 · golang/go

Passkeys are a phishing-proof authentication mechanism built into all modern browsers. They are a “commercial” name for WebAuthn discoverable credentials. Most web applications these days should su...

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The unspoken agreement that now "productivity" means we're able to fire up agents to work on engineering tasks, while we're watching hours of mandatory compliance videos, is among unfortunate learnings about being software engineer in 2026

Google hacking Microsoft wasn't on my bingo card (Wiz is part of Google) The fact that Microsoft had a "Master key" for a public service launched 9 years ago 🤦 It took 10 months to remove it from the architecture www.wiz.io/blog/cosmose...

CosmosEscape: Taking Over Every Azure Cosmos DB | Wiz Blog

Wiz Research details CosmosEscape, a critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB that granted full read/write access to every database. Now fully remediated.

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Linkedin adds a "seems like AI slop" button. Slack should have one also www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button

It’s also removing an AI “enhance” feature.

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Today we had the GOAT @danabra.mov on @syntax.fm to school us on ATPROTO Please forgive the title, trying to get more people interested in it 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77G...

ATPROTO isn’t just for Bluesky weiners

YouTube video by Syntax

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There is not enough public hate about google meet's new notification sounds! They are bad. And now every meeting starts with someone complaining that the new sounds are bad.

This was also great. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-...

The Em Dash - 99% Invisible

Last summer, Bryan Vance found himself in an argument with a stranger on Reddit. Vance, a Portland-based journalist who runs Stumptown Savings, a newsletter covering local grocery deals, had been accu...

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We've recently made Pi's cache behavior more visible. This site has been debating whether agent harnesses are helping or quietly torching their caches. That seemed like a good excuse to explain how KV caches actually work and how Pi helps (or doesn't). earendil.com/posts/prompt...

Prompt Caching In Agents | EARENDIL

How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.

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Fire your CEO — AI is better, faster, and cheaper.

That’s the premise of OverpAId, a satirical website proclaiming that AI is a more effective cost-cutting tool for replacing CEOs than other human employees. It’s a fun read that jabs at how the techno...

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Stonebraker is not happy with existing Text2SQL tooling: cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-...

Passkeys can be stored just like password hashes! I'm proposing an interoperable $webauthn$v=1$… format, and a Go API that uses these passkey records for authentication. I'm looking for feedback before proposing this as crypto/passkey for Go 1.28!

Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.

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OK this is a HILARIOUS story I heard from inside Meta: You know when Director+ folks post AI slop as "thought leader" posts? But everyone is too polite to say anything. Happened a ton inside Meta's internal "LinkedIn" (Workplace**) BUT morale is so low that lots of devs no longer gave a damn. So:

Recording of yesterday's open source maintenance stream is now up! We got through left-right (a concurrency primitive), HdrHistogram (a fun data structure), rust-imap (you guessed it), and inferno (the Rust port of flamegraph) in about 5 hours — OSS is no joke 😅 youtu.be/bAINppA0BSU

Open Source Maintenance, 2026-07-18

YouTube video by Jon Gjengset

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Search Compressed Data for byte sequences with selective decompression using MinLZ v1.2.0 - available as cli and #golang API. Overhead is a fractional bit per byte, fully customizable and with fixed specification.

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My spouse deletes old photos to free up some space on her phone. Me: You’re sure you’re doing your part in fighting ramargedon, aren’t you?

The last 7 weeks, Spotify had 4 outages when publishing my podcast episodes (!!). After outage #3, I asked the Podcasts team to share how they are improving reliablity. They didn't share - and it just got worse. So I am no longer publishing video podcasts on Spotify, but redirect my audio RSS.

🎙️ State of Agentic Coding #8 with guest Mario Zechner is out. In this episode: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko.at teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfp... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6m40...

When you thought you can work from a personal laptop for a bit, while the one from work is updating macOS

codex draws the most aesthetically pleasing ascii tables, when compared to other harnesses 💅

It's interesting that after initial buzz about "specialized tooling for agents", the copilot core-review still opts to the simple grep, over LSP github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here's how we actually improved it.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.

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The Vergecast continues to be *so good* - I learn a bunch of new things every time I listen to it, and the quality of the commentary is universally excellent Just listened to the latest episode about Netflix content strategy and Meta’s smart glasses www.theverge.com/podcast/9640...

Netflix is turning into YouTube

On The Vergecast: The ongoing fight against sleep, Meta’s smart glasses mess, and the good thing about dumb TVs.

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Picking AI model today is like buying a shampoo: Vendors show you ads: "Best for complex reasoning over large codebases", "Cost-efficient variant for day-to-day tasks", "Scored 53.6 in long-running professional workflows". Your spouse buys "strong all-round choice" with bubble gum flavour.

Hey folks I'm looking for some work! Contracting jobs related to ATProto would be a great fit if anybody needs any help along those lines. I'm very good at Rust, I use a lot of TypeScript, and I'm in deep on the Atmosphere. I'm also used to just figuring out whatever I need to. 😁