
Member of database staff @PlanetScale
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined December 2009
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Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
if someone says ‘well let’s think about this from first principles’ at work more often than not you are about to hear some bullshit. do you think you’re Descartes? second or even third order principles should be totally fine to draft this slide deck
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
Such garbage on the internet.
I find inaccurate description of my business.
I email company, as described in their "editorial process"
I get back automated sales pitch for their info-product stuff.
I say "no thanks, just appreciate you looking into the article."
them:
That I can send an agent off to QA code in prod for me. It's JUST SO GOOD. EVERYTHING IS SO EASY NOW.
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
Welp... Got laid off from Podia today. Kinda a lot to process for a Thursday. I'll have something more coherent to say eventually. For now, send Ruby/Rails leads. Or dog pictures.... Both are good.
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
dude the @PlanetScale MCP is so good in terms of the customization it gives you wtf
Supabase MCP forces me to enable write access to the prod DB...
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
I feel seen. This quote explains my life now... "skilled engineers needed to steer Claude away from over-engineering parts of the system in response to hypothetical concerns".
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
🚢 You can now debug your image rendering process.
docs.htmlcsstoimage.com/guid…
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
oops it looks like we rained on someone's parade
TIN is the fastest text search for Postgres.
Again.
planetscale.com/blog/tin-v10…
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
We spent five years trying search engines. Every one of them wanted to own the experience and be the destination. We needed a foundation.
New blog: how @PlanetScale TIN became a building block in Layers search
layers.engineering/how-plane…
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This morning I played hockey. Tonight I'll watch hockey.
Tomorrow morning I'm playing hockey. Tomorrow night, watching hockey.
Sunday night, playing hockey again. Peak weekend.
Mike Coutermarsh retweeted
This summer we upgraded our 56TB Postgres database with (almost) no downtime.
And we moved all new runs to @planetscale Metal.
This post covers everything we did and everything we learned along the way.
tgr.dev/LuKQYce






















