I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to macOS 26 Tahoe and one thing I noticed was that Rodeo's rules were no longer working. With the help of exiftool, I worked out that when exporting to JPEG from Photos for macOS 26 Tahoe, the Object Name, Caption-Abstract and Keywords IPRC properties were no lo...

In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and assumed the whole project would take between six and 12 months in writing and publishing it.The first proof copy of The Software

The React Native ecosystem has improved significantly over the years, and Expo has evolved from a beginner friendly wrapper into a robust mobile framework. Native developers face an important decision when starting a project: should you build your React Native app with Expo, or go the bare React Nat...

Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to clean up test data when using Spring and Hibernate. While it’s very common to use the @DataJpaTest annotation when implementing integration tests, in this blog post, you will see why you are better off avoiding using this annotation...

Introduction At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs. We connect job seekers with their next career opportunities and assist employers in finding the ideal candidates. This makes matching a fundamental problem in the products we develop.  The Ranking Models team is responsible for building...

Neon’s snapshots feature is now available to all users (in Beta), and you can finally schedule them automatically. You can make snapshots daily, weekly, or monthly from the Backup & Restore page in the Neon Console. Snapshots are built on Neon’s copy-on-write architecture: they capture the exact sta...

Remember when AI was gonna take our jobs? I've never felt busier. The more I get done, the more there is to do.

Remember when AI was gonna take our jobs? I've never felt busier. The more I get done, the more there is to do.

As our project grows, we're always looking for ways to streamline development, improve performance, and enhance the developer experience. Recently, we've been exploring a shift from our traditional Django REST Framework (DRF) API patterns to a combination of Django Ninja API and Pydantic. This blog ...

I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. The content of Chapter 3, about the YARV virtual machine, hasn't changed much...

From accounting to bridging software, here’s everything you need to know.

Rollbar is one of the most dependable tools for catching errors in production. It's lightweight, integrates easily with most frameworks, and gives…

From accounting to bridging software, here’s everything you need to know.

Two weeks ago, I announced a new Clojure ML library, Diamond ONNX RT, which integrates ONNX Runtime into Deep Diamond. In that post, we explored the classic Hello World example of Neural Networks, MNIST handwritten image recognition, step-by-step. We run that example on the CPU, from main memory. Th...

When your pull request won’t merge, don't fight it—fail fast, split your changes, file bugs, and move on smarter.

You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting.Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend related the story to me, about how this perso...

You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend related the story to me, about how this pers...