Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Code in database vs. code in application

In which we address the perennial question of when it’s appropriate to push domain logic into database stored procedures and triggers versus keeping it at the application layer.

Spring '83

A specification for a new kind of social network (that seems like a good idea).

Mostly automatic Go dependency updates with GitHub Actions

Writing a GitHub Action to bump Go depenendencies and put the change in a pull request.

Generating a random `float64` with `crypto/rand`

Using the cryptographically secure crypto/rand to generate a float between 0 and 1.

There's always an events table

If you’re going to have an events table, delete old stuff, and do so in batch queries with a LIMIT. Consider partitioning.