Four months ago we took down our highly-praised website and replaced it with simple monospace text-heavy markdown files. Since then, people have reached out almost weekly asking what impact this had.
Did our conversions tank? Have we just completely given up?
Let's dig in.
- bouncy ball guy has done it againCaching is used at every layer of the stack, including your database. Our latest interactive blog covers how caching works, techniques for improving hit rate, and replacement policies.
00:00 - Has anyone actually found a fix for the whole waking up at 2am and not falling back to sleep until 5am thing?
- TIL when you're writing markdown in VSCode you can just highlight text and ctrl+v to automatically make it a link 🤯 I've been manually typing []() for yearssss -_-
- High availability is important. That's why i'm spinning up a 3rd replica. Baby #3 coming April 2026 🫶
- If you've ever struggled with imposter syndrome, just hire an agency that's supposed to be experts in what you do. After working with them you'll realize you're not as dumb as you thought.
- IC to VP in less than 3 years 💅 And while raising 2 small kids + one pregnancy. Much of my life has been a constant uphill battle, so I'm very proud of this!
- How in the world do parents find time to do side projects? Am I doing something wrong?? I feel like I'm barely surviving work + basic necessities 😭
- $5 for single node Postgres on PlanetScale. We get DAILY requests for a lower entry price so I'm really excited to offer this! Perfect for development or non-critical apps that don't need our normal 3 node HA clusters.$5 PlanetScale releasing soon planetscale.com/blog/5-dollar-…
- I can't decide if I should get my first iPhone or upgrade to pixel 6






