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Issue 285 - May 11, 2026
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Spring Spotlight 2026 is live and we’ve rounded up the top updates for developers here. Featuring:
• AI-Assisted Development: Developer MCP Server lets you build apps faster with AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
• Modern API Infrastructure: Date-based versioned APIs and versioned docs for predictable releases.
• MCP: Unlock HubSpot data via the HubSpot MCP Server (remote) to connect any compatible MCP client and create custom workflows and integrations.
• Projects 2026.03: Includes serverless functions, UI extension support, and migration from 2025.1 and 2023.2.
decode and understand all the thing behind these cryptic number.
In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the official U.S. time reference. On a recent project I needed a trustworthy clock and time.gov was a convenient option. To validate that the provided reference was accurate, I opened time.gov in two browser windows side-by-side, but found that the provided clock offset estimates disagreed by a margin larger than I could tolerate. When I compared to another source, an NTP client, I found even more disagreement.
In famous problem. 0.1 + 0.2 is equal 0.30000000000000004. Best way to to understand is to re-implement them from the first principle, the hard way.
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems
Ever wondered how regex works under the hood? How does it understand an incantation like “<\/?[\w\s]*>|<.+[\W]>” and magically produces a desired result? This series is going to describe exactly how it works and how to implement a feature-rich regex engine.
that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed SSH keys! This replaces projects like secretive
Most programmers dream of their own perfect programming language.
Without vacuum, deadtuple (dead row) are accumulate in Postgres, the engine needs to scan them and exclude them, vacuum suppose to delete them. Here are many tip and tricks to monitor that process
Figma outgrow pgbouncer and share experience writing their own Postgres connection pooling.
cheatsheet covers several npm security best practices and productivity tips, useful for JavaScript and Node.js developers. This list was originally based on the 10 npm security best practices from the Snyk blog.
a book written for engineers who need Git to stay fast as repositories, histories, and teams get larger: build and CI engineers, monorepo owners, devprod teams, and anyone tasked with figuring out Git beyond the usual four commands.
Code to read
SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler
RustTools
A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool that includes a real-time web UI and terminal display
A PostgreSQL extension that can enforce optimal column alignment to minimize row padding waste.
Cloud-native continuous backup for PostgreSQL - WAL/base-backup streaming, compression, encryption, retention, and monitoring in a single binary.
a pure SQL / PL/pgSQL control plane for conservative autonomous reindexing, in the same extension-avoidance spirit as pg_ash and PgQue. It installs into a separate control database, talks to target databases through postgres_fdw user mappings and dblink, and rebuilds only with reindex index concurrently. No schema is installed into target databases. No C extension, no shared_preload_libraries, no sidecar worker, no restart.
HyperFrames lets AI agents compose videos by writing HTML, CSS & JS.
Have u ever has to write some cronjob to refresh materialized view? this tool handle all of that, natively inside Postgres
Create real MP4 videos with React. Parametrize content, render server-side and build applications.
aggregates CloudTrail logs to simplify analysis for AI agents
A terminal workbench for AI-driven vulnerability discovery and live validation.
Self Hosted
the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
A simple to deploy but feature rich S3 object storage server for your filesystem
An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling
High-performance scale-up self-hosted simple storage service (hs5)
Enterprise-Grade OSS PostgreSQL Distribution with HA, PITR, IaC, Monitor, 12 kernel forks and 460 PG extensions. Best-of-breed products integrated as a platform. Self-host Postgres like a Pro!
a full-stack PostgreSQL distribution for Kubernetes, packed into an easy deployment unit. With a carefully selected and tuned set of surrounding PostgreSQL components.
