Double Shot #2473
- Postgres Checkup - A "new kind of diagnostics tool for a deep analysis of a Postgres database health. It detects current and potential issues with database performance, scalability and security. It also produces recommendations on how to resolve or prevent them."
- The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising - It was over a decade ago I ran some experiments and decided that AdWords was a waste of money for all of my projects. This article makes the same point on a much larger scale.
- Re-Licensing Sentry - One of the more sensible pieces I've seen about trying to find a workable license for commercial open source code.
- Invisible Captcha - "Unobtrusive and flexible spam protection for Rails apps."
- RSS to ActivityPub Converter - "This is a server that lets users convert any RSS feed to an ActivityPub actor that can be followed by users on ActivityPub-compliant social networks like Mastodon."
- Sane software manifesto - A whole raft of friendly practices beyond just being open source.
- How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native - Discord has made my life much worse but this is still a fascinating read about optimization.
- Pondering a Monorepo Version Control System - "How a VCS designed for monorepos would look like and why I don't build it."