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21305.093 min

Postgres full-text search is enough

Almost paid for hosted search, then remembered a generated tsvector column and a GIN index solve it in one migration.

PostgresSupabase

21204.091 min

revalidateTag is per-deployment

Not global. Explains an entire afternoon of confusion on preview branches.

Next.jsTIL

21103.093 min

On writing every day when nothing happened

The point of a journal isn't the highlight reel — it's the texture. Boring days make the good ones legible later.

MetaWriting

21002.095 min

Embeddings on write, not on read

Moving the embed call into the publish path cut search latency to a single index scan.

ArchitecturePostgres

20901.092 min

The migration I keep writing by hand

Four projects in a row I've typed the same tsvector trigger. Time to make it a package.

PostgresTIL

20831.087 min

Reading my own notes from two years ago

Half of it is wrong and the wrong half is the useful part. A record of what I believed beats a record of what was true.

MetaWriting

20730.082 min

Server actions and the shape of a form

The API you get for free is the one the platform already had. Most of my form state was reimplementing the browser.

Next.js

20629.082 min

Naming things after what they do

Every name that describes a mechanism instead of an outcome is a small bet that the mechanism will not change.

ArchitectureWriting