Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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2025/07/01 [GADM-api]
Hello July! I refactored handler configuration by clearly separating “static” configuration values from parameters provided by the user. The code is now ready to support filtering by gid column.
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2025/06/30 [GADM-api]
My trip to Poland over the weekend put in test my daily habits. Nevertheless I managed to do at leas a small progress every day. Tomorrow I am back to waking up at 6am and focusing on personal development early in the morning. It’s important to make at least a small progress every day, especially…
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2025/06/30 [Learn Postgres]
I wrote down notes about WAL and checkpoints. Tomorrow I hope to complete notes about VACUUM and move on to next chapters – “Extensions”.
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2025/06/29 [GADM-api]
I managed to progress the gadm-api project a bit when I was flying back to Amsterdam today. Otherwise it is very difficult to keep the habit of daily updates when traveling. The progress on the Postgres book had to be paused since traveling with 700 page book is very inconvinient. [GADM-api] I started working on…
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2025/06/28
I had to travel to Poland today therefore I haven’t got time to progress on Postgres book. [GADM-api] – I finalized a rough version of “next url” header. It works only when ordering by fid column which is not great but will do for now. I need to test if it will work when filtering…
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2025/06/27 [Learn Postgres]
I am still writing down notes on “Transactions” chapter.
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2025/06/27 [GADM-api]
I added a structured approach for url creation and did some progress on “next url” feature. Also I unified the wording around pagination.
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2025/06/26 [GADM-api]
Working from the office always interrupts the morning routine nevertheless I still managed to make small progress today. I continue working on “next url” feature. I need to introduce a structured way of building api urls.
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2025/06/26 [Learn Postgres]
Wrapped up sections about WAL and checkpoints. Tomorrow I will finish VACUUM section and I will be ready to write a proper summary about this chapter.
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2025/06/25 [Learn Postgres]
Going deeper into MVCC, WALL and isolation levels definitions and explanations.
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