Richard Crowley

We ignored robots.txt at Slack for the one thing we did which was request a web page when a person linked to it in a Slack message so we could unfurl metadata.

Anything disjoint from a concrete human action, though? It’s a robot!

This can happen to USB-C, too, and it’s even more annoying to clean out so keep on keepin’ on!

(No, GTFO.)

Is Claude the new awk?

Just used the Stop button in a web browser in the year 2025.

Anyone want to jump on a zoom to import their postgres database to @planetscale.com? We've got a coupon $100 for you

I think a majority of the benefits of AI I see touted recently fall into the category of "systems integration." If the best we can do for this whole category of software is slot-machine-level odds of getting two things to talk, we suck.

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres — PlanetScale PlanetScale now supports Postgres

I did not have Postgres on my bingo card for 2025 but here we are and let me tell you this thing rips.
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Framework!

YouTube video by Aaron Francis Blazing fast MySQL with Richard Crowley (PlanetScale Metal)

We talkin' IOPS.
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The future I want for AWS
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Sounds violent and like I might need a new car.

Can a human look more evil than Emil Bove?

States’ rights except if states are trying to rein in the dystopian effort to replace labor with autocomplete.

Every Cub should genuflect before every at-bat from now on.

I think the news is also keen to hitch onto the social (read: fun) part of social media.

/me genuflects, prays

@ellie.wtf Congrats on the ship!

If you don’t have kids, every night is date night.

So do we have to pay our taxes next week or no?

Is destroying trillions in stock market capitalization, disproportionately held by the (very) rich, actually the most progressive thing Trump has ever done?

Yes and GitHub Subversion support.

It's an excellent choice. I think it's the increased surface area for increased deliciousness, kind of like ruffles/wavy potato chips.

Fucking hell that looks good.

It also gives hackers something to try to steal instead of, you know, fucking actual shit up.

And also "I'm in this photo and I don't like it."

Yo that's dark.

I recognized this style when they shared this screenshot with us!

Some of our biggest customers are already living in the future.
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PlanetScale Metal: There’s no replacement for displacement — PlanetScale Learn how PlanetScale Metal was built and how we ensured it is safe.

Seven days after I joined @planetscale.com, I pitched what would become PlanetScale Metal to @samlambert.com. Now all of PlanetScale's customers can run Vitess the way Slack runs Vitess, on the fastest NVMe drives you can get in the cloud.
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