Backend Development9 min
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY for Job Queues: 2026 Guide
Should you use Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY for a job queue? The global commit lock, 8000-byte payload cap, PgBouncer limits, and safer SKIP LOCKED patterns.
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Backend Development9 min
Should you use Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY for a job queue? The global commit lock, 8000-byte payload cap, PgBouncer limits, and safer SKIP LOCKED patterns.
News10 min
Siri AI is official: Apple rebuilt Siri on Gemini-based foundation models and Private Cloud Compute. Features, supported devices, and beta rollout dates.
AI & Machine Learning13 min
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable public model yet — a Mythos-class system at $10/$50 that quietly falls back to Claude Opus 4.8 on risky prompts.
Backend Development16 min
Build fast cursor pagination on Postgres with Node.js and TypeScript: keyset queries, a compound (created_at, id) tiebreaker, and opaque base64url cursors.
AI & Machine Learning12 min
Nex-N2-Pro is a free, open-weight 397B MoE coding model from Nex AGI, built on Qwen3.5. We check its benchmarks against GPT-5.5, Opus, and rival open models.
Cloud & DevOps16 min
Achieve true zero-downtime Kubernetes deployments: rolling updates, readiness probes, preStop hooks, and graceful SIGTERM draining. Runnable 2026 guide.
AI & Machine Learning13 min
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight coding model whose Sparse Attention runs 1M-token context at 1/20th the compute. Its benchmarks beat GPT-5.5 — with caveats.
News10 min
What to expect at Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote: the Gemini-powered Siri overhaul, iOS 27, Extensions for Claude and ChatGPT, and Tim Cook's final keynote as CEO.
Frontend Development13 min
Hands-on React useEffectEvent tutorial: fix stale closures, stop useEffect re-running on prop changes, and migrate from useCallback. Runnable 2026 code.
AI & Machine Learning10 min
ChatGPT Dreaming V3 explained: how OpenAI's new memory architecture works, its eval gains, the free-tier rollout, and how it compares to Claude and Gemini.
AI & Machine Learning19 min
Get guaranteed JSON from the Claude API in TypeScript: structured outputs with Zod, strict tool use, plus refusal and max_tokens handling. Runnable 2026 guide.
Security & Privacy10 min
OpenAI is extending GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted European defenders under its EU Cyber Action Plan. Here's what the cyber-permissive model unlocks and who gets in.