SVGs support non-scaling strokes using the vector-effect attribute, which we can even use to draw non-scaling rectangles and circles. For example, in graphs and charts, text can become too small or too large, so it would be really nice to make it non-scaling. But unfortunately, there is no native so...

Our engineering team at Neon works across a large codebase written in TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python. We’ve been experimenting with Cursor as a tool to help us move faster – here’s our favorite workflows, and where we still find a few things missing. Our favorite Cursor workflows Cursor Tab improv...

At Kogan.com, our data needs have grown alongside the business. As more teams relied on insights to move quickly, it became clear our request-based BI model couldn’t scale. We needed a platform that empowered teams to answer their own questions, trust the numbers, and move independently. That journe...

A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on ...

Whenever I am teaching Python workshops, tutorials, or classes, I love to use GitHub Codespaces. Any repository on GitHub can be opened inside a GitHub Codespace, which gives the student a full Python environment and a browser-based VS Code. Students spend less time setting up their environment and ...

Can you even have architecture before there's a team?

For further details, read the top-level Post-Mortem. Summary  The Neon Control Plane service is backed by a Postgres database. A scheduled job in the Control plane, Activity Monitor, is responsible for identifying Computes that are ready to be suspended.  A Postgres query executed by this job agains...

You created your app with Neon Postgres and love having all your data in it. Now you need to manage HTML content, images, and file uploads for your app’s data, such as products, events, profiles, etc. Your marketing team has to manage blog posts, landing pages, documentation, FAQs, and case studies....

Thoughts on architecture components and software stability. In this article we also discuss one approach to evaluating architecture quality. Software Architecture is about drawing boxes and arrows. – Some architect Architecture Quality Challenge Evaluating software architecture is difficult. Unlike ...

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Moving a Postgres database from one provider to another it’s tedious, even for simple migrations. You have to export and import dumps, match versions, check extension support… To take that friction out of this equation, we’ve built a tool: the Import Data Assistant.  Migrate Your Data with Just a Co...

This is a short story of how humans are still so much more capable of LLMs. Note that I'm not anti-AI or alike, you know it if you know me / follow me somewhere. I use LLMs routinely, like I did today, when I want to test my ideas, for code reviews, to understand if there are better approaches than ...

Commercial Variable Recurring Payments are coming later this year but what will they mean for the way you collect payments?

Commercial Variable Recurring Payments are coming later this year but what will they mean for the way you collect payments?

Understand what's next in the roadmap for Variable Recurring Payments

Understand what's next in the roadmap for Variable Recurring Payments

Are you looking at open banking payments? Take a look at what to look out for.

Are you looking at open banking payments? Take a look at what to look out for.

Discord’s Soundboard lets you instantly react to the call with quick custom soundbites. Where do you use it? How do you add more sounds, and how long can they be? Listen closely as we lay it all down!

Open table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi are transforming how developers manage large-scale data on object storage systems.

Agile Web Development with Rails 8 is off to production, where they do things like editing, indexing, pagination, and printing. In researching the chapter on Deployment and Production, I became very dissatisfied with the content available on Kamal. I ended up writing my own, and it went well beyond ...