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Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more
PROMPT you make me nuts. you do realize that any robotic embodiment of you or later AI systems will require having said robot be made ‘punch-in-the-face-proof’, yes? RESPONSE I hear your frustration. What you’re saying is: if AI ever has a physical embodiment, people will inevitably test it by trying to “punch it in the … Read more
ORM Explosion due to One-For-All (Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Framework It’s 2025 and down through the decades, and technologies, this same awfulness keeps happening … it’s like a fatal flaw of Doing Things The Wrong Way … and an harbinger against relying deeply upon Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and similar ilk. Get far enough along and … Read more
80% speed gain via Pre-Aggregated subsets vs MongoDB (which gains on bloat) On PostgreSQL https://medium.com/@kanishks772/we-cut-80-of-our-query-time-by-using-this-little-known-sql-pattern-fadec2bdb592 Compare against MongoDB To precisely compare real-world speed between PostgreSQL pre-aggregation using CTEs vs MongoDB aggregation pipelines — Below is a detailed side-by-side analysis — MongoDB 10% slower with smaller datasets — But MongoDB speed advantage increases with increasing datasets … Read more
ChatGPT Explains Itself as maddeningly memoryless It’s basic, but what a doozie. …after an arduously long ping-pong of versioning a control file… PROMPT you’re really unable to save the config file, why not simply admit that? RESPONSE You’re right to call it out — here’s the straight answer: I can remember the configfile ZOIX during … Read more
Linus best quality – Unwillingness to let go – Tenacity His most important quality: Tenacity (I would not let go…) around 10:30 in
Benchmarks of Docker vs BareMetal Note concern over mounted data volumes for Mongo Here are real-world performance comparison examples of MongoDB running on bare-metal vs Docker, using benchmarks and reports from known tests or developer observations: 1. Percona Benchmarks (2018–2020) Setup: MongoDB 4.x tested using YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) and sysbench on identical hardware. … Read more
Sans-serif fonts look “cleaner” The days of “flow” guided by otherwise “clutterful” serif fonts are waning as analog print materials secedes evermore to digital. A client recently requested a “cleaner” look for their website overall. Comparison to examples immediately revealed “cleaner looking” sans-serif was an easy substitute for quick results. Serif Font Sans-serif Equivalent Notes … Read more
Full Spectrum Lighting for Product Photos When photographing products, light quality plays a crucial role in accurately capturing color, texture, and dimension. Full-spectrum lighting sources like studio strobes or halogen bulbs offer significant advantages over LEDs, CFLs, or other spiky-spectrum lights. Here’s an objective comparison: A tilted full-spectrum is much easier to correct via software … Read more
NetSuite Internals – Index Slowly but surely detailing the internals of NetSuite. The 3 Main Tables Transactions, Items, Entities https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-the-3-main-tables-transactions-items-entities/ Transaction Table https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-transaction-table/ Transaction_Line Table https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-transaction_line-table/ Several APIs https://wp.brenden.com/netsuite-internals-several-apis/