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Thoughts on software engineering, web development, technology, books, personal growth, and more.

27 articles·1.2k reads·14 tags

Artificial Intelligence (2)

PostgreSQL (11)

Productivity (1)

Series

PostgreSQL Internals

A series on understanding what is really happening under the hood of postgreSQL

Monthly Books Summary

A series on monthly summary of the books I read in that month

Book Review

A few reviews on Books I really loved

Rust Basics

A series to learn the Rust Basics

June 2026

1

Reading PostgreSQL · Part 2

June 22, 2026·7 min readNew

PostgreSQL Table Statistics: When, Where, and How They're Calculated

Understand and Learn about the PostgreSQL Table's Statistics and in-depth code walkthrough

2

June 17, 2026·3 min read

Will I Ever Go Out?

Yes, I go out. But there's a catch.

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Reading PostgreSQL · Part 1

June 13, 2026·6 min read

TableAmRoutine - your way of integrating a custom storage engine into PostgreSQL

Learn how TableAmRoutine works under the hood and use it to plug your custom storage engine into PostgreSQL without touching the core.

4

June 5, 2026·9 min readPopular

Building a Local PostgreSQL Internals Assistant - Zero API Costs

Local PostgreSQL internals assistant - semantic search over PG source via pgvector + Ollama, exposed as MCP tools in Zed and VSCode. Free, offline, zero API costs.

Artificial Intelligence

May 2026

5

Monthly Books Summary · Part 3

May 31, 2026·2 min read

What I read in May 2026

Summary about the books I read in the month of May 2026

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Projects · Part 1

May 29, 2026·7 min read

pg_ext_memcheck - The memory bug detector that speaks PostgreSQL

A PostgreSQL extension that catches MemoryContext leaks, wrong-context allocations, and shmem overruns — from inside the backend.

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PostgreSQL Internals · Part 8

May 25, 2026·14 min read

PostgreSQL Internals - Module 8: Concurrency & Locking

PostgreSQL locking deep dive: lock hierarchy, row-level locks in xmax, MultiXactId, deadlock detection, advisory locks, SKIP LOCKED queue, and pg_locks queries.

8

May 24, 2026·2 min read

Underline Less!!

Turns out the secret to studying, gymming, and life was always the same - underline less.

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Rust Basics · Part 5

May 19, 2026·9 min read

Rust Basics - Module 5: Generics and Traits

Learn Rust traits, generics, trait bounds, and static vs dynamic dispatch. Understand how Rust achieves polymorphism without runtime cost using monomorphisation.

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May 13, 2026·2 min read

Summer is not Summering

Summers used to mean cricket, cousins, clay pots, and ice apple cart races. Now? Just heat. A trip down memory lane to the summers that actually summered.

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Reading PostgreSQL

Walking through PostgreSQL concepts directly from the source code