Likes from 4 August 2026

Mental note: make sure to list a higher salary than I was previously making, even if I was comfortable enough at that amount, especially if the listing minimum is above that.

Curl had it's summer of bliss, @ecosystems is having it's Summer of Piss (taking) by security companies hammering the public api and ignoring the data license.

Red CI creates careful engineers. Careful engineers create green CI. Green CI creates careless engineers. Careless engineers create red CI. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

the masculine urge to use unstable apis

Postgres database templates make pgtestdb’s per-test database isolation remarkably quick, around 100 ms of setup time, and within spitting distance of River’s schema-based approach.