#boringtech

An actually helpful article that compares the major options available for data storage & management, with the summarization being:

> When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be Postgres.

https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres

#JustUsePostgres #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQLforEverything #boringtech #rdbms #technews #database #databases #sql #opensource #foss #mysql #dba #devs #devadvice #devcommunity

I really should do a #introduction: hello! My name is Meredith. My handle comes from a book called The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road ("road tripping is the ultimate brain douche...") which I translated into personal branding for a bunch of blogging and podcasting in the early two-thousandsies and stuck. For what its worth, it's a consistently unclaimed name and I'm shameless enough to use it.

Professionally I'm a #frontend dev, or as I prefer to say, a stunningly average mid-career pixel programmer, and I think it's time for a promotion because right now the funnest thing I do is make feature prototypes. I try to promote #boringtech, #accessibility and #browserperformance, and at this point I'm just anti-react. If you want someone to come delete your code, hit me up!

Personally, I love #beer, #fountainpens and currently I'm falling in love with #videogames all over again thanks to my #SteamDeck , which I consider to be the best piece of hardware I've ever bought. #factorio #soulsborne #soulcalibur are my forever games.

I'm a lesbian, I'm thoroughly gaymarried, I live in Buffalo by choice, TERFs get fucked, trans liberation now, black lives matter, go unions, social democrat (yes I'd like a welfare state please), atheist, and I haven't hashtagged any of that because I don't particularly want to talk about any of it.

@ian @nicksilkey Spreadsheets dissolves many barriers. We scoff at Microsoft Access, yet when paired with Excel, that is a tough combo to beat. Low Mainenance.

I 🫶 #BoringTech

"Just" remember your references, and zero as denominators.