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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A Right now, it seems like nobody cares about databases aside from their AI opportunities.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson18d ago51 human-writing confidence
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson27 Jul 202551 human-writing confidence
A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres Most guides to the finer aspects of managing databases like Postgres are… not great.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson21 Jul 202551 human-writing confidence
JavaScript numbers have an (adoption) problem JavaScript, for all of its merits, has some questionable design decisions.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson26 Mar 202551 human-writing confidence
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist Similar to myself when I realize I have spent more time looking up API methods on MDN than actually writing code, JavaScript has had one extended identity crisis.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson31 Dec 202451 human-writing confidence
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess I hate benchmarking code, just like any human (which, at this point, most viewers of this probably aren’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson23 Dec 202451 human-writing confidence
Replacing Disqus Commenting As all Twitter X users know, one of the most essential parts of the internet is yelling about how everyone else is wrong sharing your opinions and ideas.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson21 Mar 202451 human-writing confidence
A deep dive into distributed database architectures A common adage among business owners is “Location, location location.” Location is one of the most important factors of any brick-and-mortar...
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson12 Mar 202451 human-writing confidence
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? TailwindCSS helped transform the way I wrote CSS.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson29 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming very popular within web development, and for good reason.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson5 Feb 202351 human-writing confidence
What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype? When you think of a bun, you probably think of bread. However, now, there is another Bun.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson16 Aug 202251 human-writing confidence
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Astro and SvelteKit are both modern frameworks. Originally, I built my blog ByteofDev using SvelteKit, but I recently migrated to Astro due to...
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson23 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence
State of the Web: Bundlers & Build Tools Ever since Browserify, bundlers have been extremely important in the web ecosystem.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson23 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence
State of the Web: Serverless Functions Serverless functions (also known as Function as a Service) execute code statelessly on the Cloud.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson16 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence
State of the Web: Deno Deno is a modern JavaScript runtime, competing with Node.js (and more recently Bun), that promises features like secure I/O and built-in TypeScript support.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson9 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence
State of the Web: WebAssembly WebAssembly (WASM) is a new assembly-like language on the web that aims to allow developers to write fast, portable code in the language of their choice.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson1 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence
How I Built the Fastest JavaScript Data Differ Microdiff, a diffing algorithm for structured data in JavaScript that I maintain, is pretty fast.
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson1 Jan 202251 human-writing confidence