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Matt Blewitt

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2025 3

  1. Over-Engineering Sleep
  2. Lament
  3. Embodiment

2024 15

  1. Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics
  2. 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
  3. 7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025
  4. rise in fall
  5. What Is a Senior Engineer, Anyway?
  6. Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually
  7. On That Okta LDAP Bug
  8. Sensibly Default
  9. Long Distance Relationships
  10. Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers
  11. Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line
  12. Logical Replication Guardrails
  13. A Love Letter to Giant Robots
  14. Shunn
  15. matrimony

2023 17

  1. interruption
  2. Movement for Engineers
  3. date night
  4. passage
  5. taqueria
  6. werewolves of london
  7. gucci model
  8. fathers day
  9. springsteen
  10. personal best
  11. night sweats
  12. passing storm
  13. cloudless
  14. hot breakfast
  15. Lua: The Little Language That Could
  16. So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits
  17. So, You Want To Build A DBaaS

2022 1

  1. Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers

2021 4

  1. Control Loops and Rice Cookers
  2. pumpkins and fireworks
  3. Tools for a Culture of Writing
  4. Point and Call

2020 11

  1. Unreasonably Effective Patterns
  2. a rye smile
  3. wanted rain
  4. chilli crab
  5. fading bloom
  6. high noon
  7. summer days
  8. summer nights
  9. Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111
  10. Riding the Risk Railway
  11. Software Sprezzatura

2019 3

  1. Table Stakes
  2. Thoughts on User Safety: 2
  3. Thoughts on User Safety

2016 1

  1. Service Objects in Rails