Matt Blewitt

Today we introduce TIN: a powerful and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN works with complicated WHERE clauses, replication, backups, and maintains correct transaction visibility. It's also mind-blowingly fast.

Current AI discourse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPe...

Neki, horizontal sharding for Postgres, is available today. Join us tonight for a first look at Neki with talks on Neki's architecture, why you should shard, the lifecycle of a query, and data movement between shards.

We launched something very cool today: planetscale.com/blog/the-lif.... Is there a database we can't shard? No.

I don't care about mathematics and AI labs, this is the drama I live for.

We're pulling back the curtain on Neki, our sharded Postgres product, on Sept 10. The lineup: @nvw.io — A look at Neki's architecture @benjdd.com — Why Postgres needs sharding Harshit Gangal — The lifecycle of a query in Neki And more! Limited spots:

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/memory-safety/CVE-2026-41992/

As someone who has visited Portmeirion a large number of times, I kind of wish they just kept the 60s aesthetic frozen in time.

Words I am not longer using: - Honest - Clean - Legitimate

I'm hiring for my team @planetscale.com, in AMER and EMEA, fully remote. Come build the best Postgres product on the planet with super talented folks, very high autonomy, tier-zero databases. DMs open if you'd like to talk first, happy to chat. job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/...

Together, we can defeat the tyranny of on-call rotations.

who decided to call it speculative execution and not cache me if you can

me doing cross country in year 7

Apparently to date over 40 men must become Brian Fantana.

As usual, Bryan is on the money.

Incredible

Looks like we _are_ going to space today.

I hope to see the 20th anniversary of the LP Archive.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugnu... This shit ain't nothin' to me, man. Absolutely incredible talent. Wow.

I'm so glad to see all the DLSS 5 memes. Great stuff.

I worry a little that beyond open source, AI re-implementation will mean less technical blogging on novel approaches to problems, or with such little detail as to be pointless.

Delving into OIDC was not what I had planned for my weekend, but here we are.

Time for a new Rogue Trader playthrough. It's Captain Harlock time. Iconcolast, of course.

"Impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire" is an incredible sentence. 10/10.

past me: lets make a little wombo combo game where you want Big Number (inc exponents) current me: I hate combinatorial explosions, time to write a simulator so I don't have to figure out infinites by hand

I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did. Let me know if you’d like to talk.

Outcome Engineering (via @charity.wtf): o16g.com

🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. 📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...

Just pictured Nick Saban receiving a stuffie after losing to Clemson 44-16 and literally burst out laughing

Finally baking again for the first time in... I think at least 18 months, if not longer. Hawaiian rolls this time. Terrible dough to work with.

The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Sunday afternoon album today is Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream & Other Delights". It's an extraordinarily 60s album, with probably the best version of A Taste of Honey anywhere. Gen Z will recognise Ladyfingers, which is popular on Insta and TikTok for some reason?

I joined today. We shipped today. Coincidence? Yes.

🟪 => 🌎 After almost 8 years at @heroku.com, time for a new adventure at @planetscale.com.

Unfathomable psychic damage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmm... 20 years, in a blink of an eye.

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

The duality of man.

Everytime I see an ACE exploit in a game (with www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTry... being the latest I've watched), I remind myself that if I ever need to spin up a security team, I'm hiring the speedrun glitch hunting folks.

Standard great Filippo post.

I really like writing RFCs, even as an engineering manager. I don't like writing RFCs when as I'm writing it, the list of teams that need to be involved increases more and more as I write it.