Reposted by Matt BlewittPlanetScale @planetscale.com · 16/09/2026Today we introduce TIN: a powerful and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN works with complicated WHERE clauses, replication, backups, and maintains correct transaction visibility. It's also mind-blowingly fast. 154
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 12/09/2026Current AI discourse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPe...youtube.comPorno For Pyros - Pets (Official Video)YouTube video by PornoForPyros 000
Reposted by Matt BlewittPlanetScale @planetscale.com · 10/09/2026Neki, horizontal sharding for Postgres, is available today. Join us tonight for a first look at Neki with talks on Neki's architecture, why you should shard, the lifecycle of a query, and data movement between shards. luma.comTHE SF DATABASE MEETUP: Neki Edition · LumaJoin us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van… 043
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 10/09/2026We launched something very cool today: planetscale.com/blog/the-lif.... Is there a database we can't shard? No.planetscale.comThe lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScaleFollow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back. 020
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 08/09/2026I don't care about mathematics and AI labs, this is the drama I live for. 001
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 07/09/2026One of the stranger things we're seeing is the rise of fully headless apps. No UI, not even really intended to be used by a human. OpenAPI specs, llms.txt and robust documentation (using diataxis.fr) is all you need. Provide metrics/logs endpoints etc. 110
Reposted by Matt BlewittPlanetScale @planetscale.com · 02/09/2026We're pulling back the curtain on Neki, our sharded Postgres product, on Sept 10. The lineup: @nvw.io — A look at Neki's architecture @benjdd.com — Why Postgres needs sharding Harshit Gangal — The lifecycle of a query in Neki And more! Limited spots: luma.comTHE SF DATABASE MEETUP: Neki Edition · LumaJoin us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van… 052
Reposted by Matt BlewittXe @xeiaso.net · 27/08/2026"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prev…xeiaso.net"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happensThe newest post on Xe Iaso's blog 1372
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 02/08/2026As someone who has visited Portmeirion a large number of times, I kind of wish they just kept the 60s aesthetic frozen in time. 000
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 27/07/2026Words I am not longer using: - Honest - Clean - Legitimate 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 20/05/2026I'm hiring for my team @planetscale.com, in AMER and EMEA, fully remote. Come build the best Postgres product on the planet with super talented folks, very high autonomy, tier-zero databases. DMs open if you'd like to talk first, happy to chat. job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/... 093
Reposted by Matt Blewittevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over. 43824200
Reposted by Matt Blewittaustin @aparker.io · 03/05/2026who decided to call it speculative execution and not cache me if you can 1043073
Reposted by Matt BlewittJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/04/2026me doing cross country in year 7 414317
Reposted by Matt BlewittSkeetlet @skeetlet.bsky.social · 03/04/2026So. I don’t have a job anymore. Company just did layoffs yesterday. I have all kinds of experience, but would prefer to be in Ops land. I have experience in bash, regex, dns, networking, all kinds of monitoring platforms, AWS, terraform, docker… 152513
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 19/03/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugnu... This shit ain't nothin' to me, man. Absolutely incredible talent. Wow.youtube.com"Dracula Flow 6" | Jazz | 2026 National YoungArts WeekYouTube video by YoungArts 000
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 16/03/2026I worry a little that beyond open source, AI re-implementation will mean less technical blogging on novel approaches to problems, or with such little detail as to be pointless. 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 15/03/2026Delving into OIDC was not what I had planned for my weekend, but here we are. 120
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 08/03/2026Time for a new Rogue Trader playthrough. It's Captain Harlock time. Iconcolast, of course. 000
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 02/03/2026"Impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire" is an incredible sentence. 10/10. 110
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 02/03/2026past me: lets make a little wombo combo game where you want Big Number (inc exponents) current me: I hate combinatorial explosions, time to write a simulator so I don't have to figure out infinites by hand 010
Reposted by Matt BlewittNiall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did. Let me know if you’d like to talk. 2158
Reposted by Matt BlewittAaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · 13/02/2026Outcome Engineering (via @charity.wtf): o16g.como16g.comOutcome EngineeringIt was never about the code. 0128
Reposted by Matt BlewittDuckDB @duckdb.org · 20/02/2026🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam. 📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...duckdblabs.comRust EngineerDuckDB Labs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers. 1229
Reposted by Matt BlewittMy Pun Killed Steve Albini @texannolongerinnyc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Just pictured Nick Saban receiving a stuffie after losing to Clemson 44-16 and literally burst out laughing 9914133
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 14/02/2026Finally baking again for the first time in... I think at least 18 months, if not longer. Hawaiian rolls this time. Terrible dough to work with. 040
Reposted by Matt BlewittCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 11/02/2026The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too 824036
Reposted by Matt BlewittMatthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If Bilbo had Chat GPT 4339501135
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 18/01/2026Sunday afternoon album today is Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream & Other Delights". It's an extraordinarily 60s album, with probably the best version of A Taste of Honey anywhere. Gen Z will recognise Ladyfingers, which is popular on Insta and TikTok for some reason? 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 15/12/2025🟪 => 🌎 After almost 8 years at @heroku.com, time for a new adventure at @planetscale.com. 180
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 26/11/2025Unfathomable psychic damage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmm... 20 years, in a blink of an eye.youtube.comguitar (2025)YouTube video by Neural DSP 010
Reposted by Matt BlewittTodd Rafferty @webrat.io · 31/10/2025Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day. 15977209
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 16/10/2025Everytime I see an ACE exploit in a game (with www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTry... being the latest I've watched), I remind myself that if I ever need to spin up a security team, I'm hiring the speedrun glitch hunting folks.youtube.comWind Waker Was Just Broken By A MASSIVE New Skip!YouTube video by Abyssoft 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 02/10/2025I really like writing RFCs, even as an engineering manager. I don't like writing RFCs when as I'm writing it, the list of teams that need to be involved increases more and more as I write it. 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 24/09/2025You should take a break and watch some skate videos. Recommendations: Yeah Right! (Girl) and Sorry (Flip). Also all of Mullen's Round Three part is mindbending. 010
Matt Blewitt @matt.blwt.io · 15/09/2025Bought a new NUC. Forgot I don't have any wired keyboards since the clearout. Setup will have to wait for another day. 000
