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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Databasemaxxing

dvektor — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:21:12 +0000

Article URL: https://pthorpe92.dev/databasemaxxing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dvektor in "Writing toy software is a joy"

dvektor — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:15:22 +0000

Absolutely love this article, couldn't agree with this more.

Discovering Programming at the Darkest Point in My Life

dvektor — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:38:54 +0000

Article URL: https://h5law.com/intro.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44340160

Points: 28

# Comments: 9

New comment by dvektor in "Working on databases from prison"

dvektor — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:01:38 +0000

Yes unfortunately for a long time my whole life revolved around 'drug culture', and so did of all my 'friends' and my entire social circle.

I certainly cannot act like I did not deserve to come to prison, and it's definitely the only reason I am even alive right now. Coming to prison, specifically in Maine, was the best thing that ever happened to me.

New comment by dvektor in "Working on databases from prison"

dvektor — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:58:35 +0000

Thanks Gavin! Really appreciate the support.

Working on databases from prison

dvektor — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288937

Points: 849

# Comments: 534

New comment by dvektor in "Show HN: The missing inbox for GitHub pull requests"

dvektor — Mon, 12 May 2025 22:18:39 +0000

There is definitely a need for this, great idea!

Looks like there is a TLS cert issue on the public instance, but I'll be sure to check back in a couple days and check it out.

New comment by dvektor in "Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB"

dvektor — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:36:25 +0000

I asked someone else what they use for rust. Normally I get by well enough with good structured tracing but lately that hasn't been cutting it.

New comment by dvektor in "Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?"

dvektor — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:21:42 +0000

Yeah the whole 'git repo = helm chart' just does not feel great at all. As we all know, the only thing worse is not using helm and having to deal with writing all those service, pv, pvc, ingress yaml files individually :)

New comment by dvektor in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

dvektor — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:39:21 +0000

Fantastic post, definitely could relate to quite a bit of that.

New comment by dvektor in "Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB"

dvektor — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:35:14 +0000

Very cool! I have been using LLDB quite a bit lately so I am eager to try this out. The state of debuggers dev experience really hasn't caught up to what things like Cargo have done for build systems, so I am glad to see people working on things like this.

New comment by dvektor in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

dvektor — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:48:51 +0000

Congrats OP. also: microsoft teams is an unholy abomination

New comment by dvektor in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

dvektor — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:09:10 +0000

Reminds me of the scene in Silicon Valley where they team are excited to hear a VC interested in the details so they are explaining the technology on the whiteboard to the "investors" who were a team of engineers eager to copy their tech.

But seriously, it sounds like a weird version of "not invented here syndrome" where you are somehow OK with copy-pasting most of it.

New comment by dvektor in "Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables"

dvektor — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 03:51:57 +0000

I store my secrets in gpg encrypted files and inject them into my environment in my shell rc file.

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(gpg -d ~/.secrets/aws/key.asc)

type of deal. its annoying to put in a password every time i open a new tmux pane but hey, better than plain text.

New comment by dvektor in "Potatoes in the Mail"

dvektor — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 03:10:16 +0000

fun fact. in federal prisons (and some portion of state prisons), books of stamps are essentially $5 bills. It's common to see people with huge wads of stamps in their pockets much like you would with cash. a few years ago, it became much more difficult to convert stamps back to cash, so a few companies popped up that would accept stamps in the mail for some value on the dollar and books of stamps are the currency of (most) US prisons to this day.

New comment by dvektor in "SQLite transactions and virtual tables"

dvektor — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:52:06 +0000

Love to see someone writing about vtabs, I implemented vtab support for a rust reimplementation of sqlite so I've recently learned a tremendous amount about them. They are very powerful and probably under utilized.

New comment by dvektor in "What the hell is a target triple?"

dvektor — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:05:32 +0000

Great read. Love those articles where you go in thinking that you have a pretty solid understanding of the topic and then proceed to learn much more than you thought you would.

New comment by dvektor in "Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub"

dvektor — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:04:21 +0000

at least we all know what apache is, what it does and doesn't do, when it's running and how to start/stop/remove it :)

god knows what a microsoft webserver is doing.

New comment by dvektor in "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)"

dvektor — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:15:36 +0000

Surprised no mentions of sqlite yet :) I've always associated Tcl with sqlite because of how much it is used in their test suite and how you can have a tcl interpreter as a virtual table. Very interesting and seemingly often overlooked little language.

New comment by dvektor in "Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed"

dvektor — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:29:34 +0000

Am I the only one that detected sarcasm? (cool business)