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Parsing cli arguments is a solved problem. Every language has a library to get the flags from your command line. Maybe not in the stdlib, bu...

Imagine you used to have `select f1, f2 from t1`. But now f2 becomes a fk to a table t2, so now we have f2_id that points to t2 (with fields...

This is how I wrote a short snippet to open read-only postgres connection using psql.  Notice the amount of non-trivial stuff in those lines...

Here's a link I don't want to lose, a thread about amazing people doing Advent of Code in Postgres. If you ask 'why', you...

So, this is really a thing: Like, IDGAF about CSS, but want my site to look slightly more modern than danluu's page. https://news.ycombi...

Both https://cuddly-octo-palm-tree.com/posts/2021-10-10-tyska-terraform/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020460 touch on this top...

So I had my dose of head scratching today when noticed that if you set an environment variable to the empty string for an aws batch job, aws...