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GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed. The…
CLIs have become the default tool for AI agents because they package complex environments into predictable commands. But human-friendly CLIs lag behind the underlying API, and letting agents call the raw API risks leaking secrets. `neon…
enable_seqscan does not disable sequential scans. It cannot, and it was never meant to. The documentation says as much: sequential scans cannot be suppressed entirely, because sometimes reading the whole table is the only way to answer the…
Ever have a query 'tossed over the fence' that you find incomprehensible but still have to support it? A few years ago, you would have needed to triage the query. Obfuscated queries can be tough to decipher. Sometimes, the query is due to…