~betterdevlink | Issues #278 Mar 31, 2025 (22)

goavatar This package provides a simple way to generate unique, symmetric identicons based on an input string (e.g., an email address or username). It uses an MD5 hash to create a deterministic pattern and color scheme, then mirrors the design for a visually appealing avatar.

30 years of PostgreSQL buffer manager locking design evolution An in-depth exploration of the evolution of PostgreSQL’s buffer manager locking mechanisms over three decades, highlighting key design decisions and their impact on performance and concurrency.

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read A guide offering practical advice on crafting technical blog posts that effectively engage and inform developer audiences, emphasizing clarity, structure, and relevance.

Identity Tokens Explained: Best Practices for Better Access Control An overview of identity tokens, detailing their role in authentication and authorization processes, and providing best practices for implementing secure and efficient access control mechanisms.

Blasting Past Webp: An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit A technical analysis by Google’s Project Zero team on the NSO Group’s BLASTPASS exploit, which targeted Apple’s iMessage using malicious WebP images to achieve zero-click remote code execution.

Visual-Focused Algorithms Cheat Sheet A concise reference guide summarizing key algorithms related to visual data processing, offering quick insights into their applications and implementations.

Train & Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi & E-Ink If you have some old Raspberry Pi hardware lying around, this could be a great hobby project.

MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second An examination of the relationship between MySQL’s transaction throughput and the filesystem’s synchronization operations, discussing how fsync frequency impacts database performance.

Better Shell History Search An article discussing techniques to enhance shell history search functionality, including the integration of tools like fzf for more efficient command retrieval and improved productivity.

Life Altering PostgreSQL Patterns A discussion on transformative PostgreSQL design patterns, such as using UUID primary keys, implementing timestamp fields, enforcing strict foreign key constraints, utilizing schemas for organization, and employing enum tables for data integrity.

A Practical Guide to Taming Postgres Isolation Anomalies A comprehensive guide addressing PostgreSQL’s transaction isolation anomalies, providing practical examples and strategies to understand and mitigate issues like dirty reads, lost updates, and phantom reads.

Cloudflare open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH Single sign-on for SSH is a dream. No longer dealing with keys, editing ~/authorized_keys files, or modifying LDAP or PAM configurations. Easy to revoke and offboard developers.

MCP (Model Context Protocol): Simply explained in 5 minutes An introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), explaining its purpose, functionality, and how it can streamline development processes by providing contextual model information.

shezem-rs A Rust implementation of a fast audio fingerprinting system inspired by Shazam, for audio recognition and identification. It focuses on speed, efficiency and simplicity

star-vector a foundation model for SVG generation that transforms vectorization into a code generation task. Using a vision-language modeling architecture, StarVector processes both visual and textual inputs to produce high-quality SVG code with remarkable precision.

lakekeeper an Apache-Licensed, secure, fast and easy to use Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust. Apache Iceberg is a project that allow us to run SQL query on a set of file(CSV, Parquet, JSON) directly from storage such as S3.

Physix-go A physics engine in Go that makes simulating motion, collisions, and forces as simple as possible.