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1,637 karma · joined July 2, 2019

Co-founder of Hatchet (W24, https://hatchet.run), a task queue built on Postgres. Previously co-founder of Porter (S20, https://porter.run)
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Bufo pulls the andon cord

hatchet.run·16 pts·abelanger·
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Clues by Sam

cluesbysam.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

brandur.org·165 pts·abelanger·
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Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

macchaffee.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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Why tech companies are bad (2019)

alexcrompton.com·3 pts·abelanger·
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Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower

planetscale.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law

hatchet.run·2 pts·abelanger·
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Implementing PaxosLease in Python with HTTP Flask

bytepawn.com·1 pts·abelanger·
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A Treatise on Restaurant Design

substack.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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Building Online Communities

hintjens.com·1 pts·abelanger·
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The First Idempotency Key

hatchet.run·36 pts·abelanger·
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The startup's Postgres survival guide

hatchet.run·523 pts·abelanger·
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Durable execution, the hard way

github.com·64 pts·abelanger·
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Supertoast tables

hatchet.run·56 pts·abelanger·
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

tovejansson.com·223 pts·abelanger·
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Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)

blog.trailofbits.com·13 pts·abelanger·
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Building a TUI is easy now

hatchet.run·306 pts·abelanger·
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Postgres Indexes, Partitioning and LWLock:LockManager Scalability

ardentperf.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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Claude Code Psychosis

jasmi.news·2 pts·abelanger·
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Stripe's New Homepage

stripe.com·2 pts·abelanger·
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The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (2020)

wired.com·1 pts·abelanger·
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Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup

hatchet.run·1 pts·abelanger·
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Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup

hatchet.run·5 pts·abelanger·
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Designing SDKs that developers love

hatchet.run·2 pts·abelanger·
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Strange.website

strange.website·220 pts·abelanger·
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How to Be a Genius Editor (Of Literal Words)

genius.com·4 pts·abelanger·
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Concurrency's Shysters (2008)

bcantrill.dtrace.org·4 pts·abelanger·
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Do Parents Have Favorite Children? Of Course They Do

nytimes.com·3 pts·abelanger·
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The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself

hatchet.run·93 pts·abelanger·
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How to think about durable execution

hatchet.run·96 pts·abelanger·
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