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Stories by gajus

React 19 (github.com)
HN 307 pts 499 comments by gajus Dec 5, 2024 Web Development thread
Debugging mysterious traffic from Boardman, OR (contra.com)
L 23 pts 13 comments by gajus Nov 16, 2022 debuggingnetworkingtesting Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests (gajus.com)
L 22 pts 12 comments by gajus Apr 12, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Pgschema – Declarative schema migration for Postgres (pgschema.com)
HN 18 pts 9 comments by gajus Sep 12, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The most important ESLint rule: max-params (dev.to)
L 17 pts 3 comments by gajus Jul 25, 2022 javascript Web Development thread
Navigating the Complexities of File Watching (github.com)
L 15 pts 4 comments by gajus Mar 21, 2023 javascriptnodejs Web Development thread
Show HN: Teemux – Zero-config log multiplexer with built-in MCP server (teemux.com)
HN 11 pts 9 comments by gajus Jan 23, 2026 thread
I started to use AI agents for coding and quickly ran into a frustrating limitation – there is no easy way to share my development environment logs with AI agents. So that's what is Teemux. A simple CLI program that aggregates logs, makes them available to you as a developer (in a pretty UI), a...
Routing PostgreSQL queries between read-write & read-only instances (contra.com)
L 9 pts 6 comments by gajus Oct 5, 2022 databasesnodejs Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Rewriting tests from Cypress to Playwright using GPT3 (contra.com)
L 9 pts 0 comments by gajus Sep 7, 2022 aitesting AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs (gajus.com)
L 8 pts 13 comments by gajus Apr 23, 2024 a11y Design / UX / Visualization thread
Designing one-to-one relationships in PostgreSQL (gajus.com)
L 8 pts 5 comments by gajus Apr 3, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The case for native assertions in PostgreSQL (gajus.com)
L 8 pts 3 comments by gajus Apr 3, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Vitest v4 (github.com)
HN 7 pts 1 comments by gajus Oct 22, 2025 thread
Attempting Large Code Refactor using LLMs (contra.com)
L 5 pts 4 comments by gajus Jun 29, 2023 programmingvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Writing composable SQL using JavaScript (contra.com)
L 5 pts 3 comments by gajus Sep 23, 2022 databasesjavascriptnodejs Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Bulk inserting nested data into the database (part II) (contra.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by gajus Oct 7, 2022 databasesnodejs Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
React 19.2.0 (github.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by gajus Oct 1, 2025 Web Development thread
Turbowatch: Extremely fast file change detector and task orchestrator for Node.js (github.com)
L 3 pts 0 comments by gajus Mar 14, 2023 javascriptnodejs Web Development thread
Building advanced SQL search from a user text input (contra.com)
L 3 pts 0 comments by gajus Sep 30, 2022 databasesjavascript Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Fully qualified names vs a jungle of imports (contra.com)
L 3 pts 5 comments by gajus Sep 11, 2022 javascriptnodejs Web Development thread
Ask HN: Anyone using Redis for full-text search?
HN 3 pts 3 comments by gajus Feb 17, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
I only learned this morning that that's a thing that Redis advertises as capable of. However, I cannot find many case studies to establish how viable/practical is using Redis for this use case.
List of All CSS Properties (nikolai-shabalin.github.io)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by gajus Nov 12, 2025 Web Development thread
Fine-tuning OpenAI models (gajus.com)
L 1 pts 1 comments by gajus Apr 24, 2024 ai AI / Machine Learning thread
Integrating Slonik with Express.js (contra.com)
L 1 pts 1 comments by gajus Sep 29, 2023 databasesnodejs Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Ask HN: Why do cars use turning wheels instead of independent motor control?
HN 1 pts 4 comments by gajus Oct 17, 2024 thread
I was watching a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/6jzG-BMannc?si=GcuFJ0MvVKH-rDgL&t=189) showing an RC car with 4 electric motors, each individually controlled. The car turns left or right by speeding up or slowing down the motors on one side, instead of using traditional turning w...
teemux: Zero-config log multiplexer with built-in MCP server (github.com)
L -1 pts 0 comments by gajus Jan 23, 2026 aishowvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Slack Video Chat Roulette (producthunt.com)
L -1 pts 0 comments by gajus Apr 20, 2020 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Twitter (most likely) regrets adding Follow (contra.com)
L -3 pts 3 comments by gajus Nov 14, 2024 philosophy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread