Daily Shaarli

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October 1, 2026

Taking Out The Garbage In Postgres
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Interesting issues around cascading deletes in Postgres and how the indices are managed.

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

Interesting points. If you're making a platform you can't really figure out what to do next in the same way than when usual product management is possible. There are signals to look for to feed your roadmap though.

AI's Unsustainable impacts to grow x7 by 2030
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There's clearly a major issue in terms of environmental impacts with the AI industrial complex. Yes it's also about electricity consumption but not only. We have at last a comprehensive study on the matter. Without major changes it's just unsustainable and something we can't collectively afford.

We Have Named Arguments at Home
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It's indeed not urgent to have this language feature in Rust. I'm less convinced about the case put forth regarding function overloading not being necessary though. Feels a bit like post-hoc justification in this case.