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aschenon Why we built our own background agent

Reading this article and discovering how Ramp team use Modal for sandboxed dev environment just saved us weeks of custom infra development and potentially months of headache, thanks you !

aschenon MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025

> From the developer standpoint, it's very nice to use, I just throw documents at it and it saves them. If I want an extra field, I just add it. If I want an index on something, also just add it. No big complicated schema migrations.

This sentence summarize all the issues developers working with Mongo will have: multiple version of documents living in the same DB and unpredictable structure

Best thing MongoDB have it's definitely their marketing (making everyone think it's amazing to invest hundreds of millions to deliver an "OK" tier database) and their customer support

aschenon Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

The best Winamp clone for macOS is still Re:AMP https://re-amp.ru/

If you want the original Winamp experience with full support of M3U playlist then don't go further than Re:AMP

aschenon Vector Database are the new hype you want to avoid as a CTO

After schema-less MongoDB, the nightmare of debugging microservices and over-engineered GraphQL, half-baked vector databases have become the new trends you want to avoid.