Stop Using Elasticsearch. Use Postgres Instead This issue is brought to you by: Postgres for sensor and machine data Factories, wells, grids, and fleets run on live machine data. Tiger Data keeps it performant and scalable in one Postgres. Get started with Text Search on TigerData→ Do you still need Elasticsearch? I wanted to test that properly, so I put Postgres in Docker, loaded it with thousands of support tickets, and checked how far the same BM25 relevance search used by dedicated search...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Somehow, Atuin Just Got EVEN Better This issue is brought to you by: Give your AI agents memory Learn how Oracle Agent Memory handles persistent context with custom extraction, hybrid search, filtering, and more control over what your agents remember. Read the developer guide → There aren't many terminal utilities I'd take with me anywhere. But if I had to pick just one, Atuin may very well be it. I've been using it for a few years now, and somehow the magic turtle keeps getting better. It...
2 months ago • 4 min read
You’ve Never Seen a Shell Like Xonsh This issue is brought to you by: Redis Iris: Your agents should be getting smarter Unreliable agents fail in production. Redis Iris is a unified, real-time context engine that delivers fresh, relevant context so agents perform at scale. Try for FREE Tell me if this sounds familiar:You start with a quick shell script. Then one step gets annoying, so you call Python. Then Python needs to shell out again. Then you’re parsing strings, juggling quoting, and...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Stop Renting SaaS. Build Your Own Cloud. This issue is brought to you by: Security, Performance, Simplicity. Pick Three. Twingate delivers an identity-based access for users, services, and AI agents that deploys in minutes, scales to every resource, and finally lets you retire your VPN. Try Twingate - it's FREE! -> Why pay cloud companies when you can just… not? I’ve recently started running my own services at home, because.. honestly? I’m tired of paying cloud providers for things I can run...
7 months ago • 4 min read
This Tool Replaced 7 CLIs (and killed my opensource) This issue is brought to you by: Depot: Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. Get started for free -> I’ve been in the terminal for 12 years. I don’t get surprised often. Then I found Television, and I was wrong about it before I even opened it. The friction of endless pipes ||| There’s a...
7 months ago • 5 min read
My Opencode Workflow As A Senior Engineer This issue is brought to you by: Descope: Drag & Drop Your Auth Your engineers are building at warp speed, so why should auth be left behind? Descope provides no / low code workflows that decouple auth, access control, and user management from your app’s codebase so your teams can focus on the core product. Signup and Get Started Now Everyone's trying to replace themselves. I'm just trying to ship faster. 11 months ago, Dario Amodei said "AI would be...
8 months ago • 5 min read
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9 months ago • 4 min read
This Nginx Fork Should Be Illegal This issue is brought to you by: Trigger.dev: The open source platform to build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows Trigger.dev is the platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling. Start Building Now Look, we all love Nginx. I've used it for years. It’s the reliable, rock-solid engine that’s kept my infra running since the early days. But every once in a while, it’s...
9 months ago • 3 min read
I Was DEFINITELY Using The Wrong Dev Env CLI This issue is brought to you by: Teleport: Unified Identity Securing Classic & AI Infrastructure Teleport unifies identities — humans, machines, and AI — with strong identity implementation to speed up engineering, improve resiliency against identity-based attacks, and secure AI in production infrastructure. Try Teleport for Free I titled this newsletter like I did because I realized my old setup was a fragmented mess of five different tools when...
9 months ago • 5 min read