Pet peeve: "I value correctness over performance".

Pet peeve: "I value correctness over performance". It sounds kinda true (FKs, ACID, and writing to something other than /dev/null can be slower). But when the type of system you are building is known (e.g. Postgres), the tradeoff is bo

Ranked #62 on backlist 2026-05-24 (24 May 2026 UTC) · by @gwenshap (Gwen (Chen) Shapira) · view on X ↗

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