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We benchmarked Barman vs pgbackrest vs Wal-G on 1TB Postgres. Real backup time, restore time, RTO/RPO numbers. With pgbackrest unmaintained, who actually…
Michael Sun · May 3, 2026 · 20 min read
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We tested Ghostty 1.0 vs Warp OSS vs WezTerm over 14 days. Real keystroke latency P50/P95/P99, memory, GPU usage, configuration UX —…
Michael Sun · May 2, 2026 · 21 min read
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We benchmarked Bun 2.0 vs Node.js 24 vs Deno 3.0 over 30 days production with Hono Postgres Redis WebSocket. HTTP throughput, cold…
Michael Sun · May 2, 2026 · 20 min read
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We tested DuckDB FTS, PostgreSQL tsvector, and Meilisearch on a 100M document corpus. Real build time, query latency, memory, and disk numbers…
Michael Sun · May 1, 2026 · 19 min read
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We benchmarked SQLite durable queues against Postgres SKIP LOCKED across 1K-50K msg/sec. Real numbers: where SQLite WAL beats Postgres and where the…
Michael Sun · May 1, 2026 · 20 min read
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Plain text outlasted XML, RTF, DocBook. UTF-8 won. AI makes plain text more important, not less. Heres why text-first design beats every…
Michael Sun · Apr 26, 2026 · 25 min read
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Spinel ushers in Rubys AOT compiler era while Pythons compilation story stalled. Compiled Ruby beats compiled Python in 2026. Heres the benchmark…
Michael Sun · Apr 25, 2026 · 25 min read
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665 HN points of Claude Code regression complaints expose a deeper truth: AI coding tools are pre-production-maturity software in production paths. Heres…
Michael Sun · Apr 24, 2026 · 24 min read
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CAPTCHAs are obsolete. AI agents break the webs binary human/bot identity model, and Private Access Tokens arent enough. Heres what agent identity…
Michael Sun · Apr 20, 2026 · 24 min read
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PgQueue is the latest in the Postgres-as-a-queue trend. Is it time to kill your RabbitMQ and Kafka clusters? Below 10K msg/sec, probably…
Michael Sun · Apr 19, 2026 · 26 min read
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GitHub says 51 percent of code is now AI-generated. A DevEx lead analyzes what this means for tools, code quality, and which…
Michael Sun · Apr 15, 2026 · 24 min read