Another blog bites the dust

Last Wednesday (Sep 10), I had the chance to attend a hackathon at Cursor’s offices - huge thanks to the Cursor team for hosting such a great event! 🙌 The focus was on Cursor CLI and their new Background Agents API.

When I started brainstorming ideas, I came across Eric’s post about running various rules during CI/CD to automate checks and actions. It got me thinking — setting up those rules often involves a lot of repetitive work: crafting similar prompt setups and then defining the actions themselves.

Command line interfaces used to be the domain of automation experts who knew how to wield the tool with precision. They scripted pipelines, chained commands, and bent systems to their will from a blinking cursor. That hasn’t gone away, but something new is happening. Large language models are now picking up these tools and wielding them just as effectively.

The key is design. If a CLI has clear help text and well described flags, an LLM can step in like an apprentice who suddenly knows the whole manual by heart. Add the ability to output JSON or another structured format, and the tool becomes not just usable but consumable. The LLM can run the command, parse the result, and carry the output forward into the next step.

Lately, I’ve been working on something I probably wouldn’t have pursued if not for the rise of AI coding agents.

It’s called pgsqlite - a Postgres wire protocol v3 compatible server, written in Rust, that runs on top of the standard SQLite library.

On the surface, it might sound like a niche tool. But it solves a very real and increasingly relevant problem. Why This Could Be Useful

As more developers integrate autonomous coding agents into their workflows, the need for lightweight, sandboxed environments grows. These environments often need a database - usually for tests, schema validation, or other backend tasks.

If you are using VSCode or any other non-integrated editor (even vim or emacs), chances are you are already using a language server. These servers power features that are specific to the language or framework you are working with. They provide documentation, autocomplete, code navigation, warnings, and more.

When you click on a function and jump to its definition, a language server is likely behind the scenes making that possible.

Fixing NVMe Drive Detection on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 with Ubuntu

I recently got a used ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 off eBay. It came without a storage drive, probably because it used to belong to some company and they pulled the disk before selling it.

I picked up a Samsung 980 NVMe at a good price and installed it. The BIOS saw it right away, so I figured I was good to go. But when I booted the Ubuntu installer, it couldn’t see the drive.

In the picture above is a late-2009 iMac GPU (graphics card) after being baked at 200°C (392°F). Baking it solves a problem that makes the computer unusable and manifests itself as vertical pink lines during boot that gets the computer stuck.

My friends’ iMac suffered from this problem and after googling it I found out that its a rather common issue afflicting a lot of iMacs. It happens when an internal solder crack or break. Baking the card fixes the bad solder.

It’s time to move my blog to version 3. This time we are going back in time and into the future at the same time.

Before we begin, here is a little history of my blog:

Version 1 - Blogger

Version 1 ran on Blogger - which was essentially a static site generation platform. It gave you an editor, you would write your posts and then it would generate your complete site in HTML and even allowed you to publish it on your own server by uploading the result via FTP.

Ever since Redis Modules were released into the wild, I wanted to write something nice and short and see how easy and fun it is to significantly extend Redis.

It also helps that Dvirsky, my friend, works at Redis Labs and wrote RediSearch - a kick ass full text indexing and search engine that kicks all the other search engines’ performance ass (you should definitly try it out).

For a while now, to try out new languages/frameworks/whatever I’ve been using Twitter’s Snowflake. This case was no different as everyone needs unique ids at some point.

TL;DR – this is why (and how) I created the electronic version of EFF’s Dice.

I love the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and believe in their just cause. I support it as much as I can and try to educate as many people as I can about their rights, privileges online and how to correctly behave in this new found jungle.

So, you’ve decided you want to blog or write on Medium – where all the cool kids hang out. Great. Remember there are other similar platforms to write and blog and at some point Medium (like everything else on the Internet) might lose its appeal or even, god forbid, shutdown.

When that happens, what will happen to your posts? How can you and the rest of the internet reach it?