Scaling Postgres has been attempted by many engineering teams. Each pushed Postgres scalability forward. Each came with compromises. Neki addresses these shortcomings. Learn how we got here in this brief history of Postgres sharding:
Tomorrow at 12pm ET: a live build from prompt to production. Colin Wren (Stripe) will provision a backend from the CLI by prompting, and Seán Mc Ternan (Netlify) will ship it. It's beginner-friendly, and you'll leave with the repo.
Register: luma.com/qjhck1ql Dave had already built his app with AI. The next challenge was getting it online without spending hours on setup. He shares how he discovered Netlify while looking for a fast way to deploy his proof of concept, and why seeing it live changed the way he thinks about building and sharing ideas.
Consecutive runs in Netlify Agent Runners are faster now. Netlify keeps the infrastructure from your run warm and ready for the next request, so the gap between asking for a change and seeing a new preview got shorter.
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Since this is a major release, pin your Prisma dependencies to `7.9.1` if you’d prefer to upgrade later. 
We’ve been working on a major upgrade to the Prisma CLI, and tomorrow it’ll be available through `prisma@latest` alongside a few other things. 
this is good, if you have that kind of upstream focus-splintering in your life, it's the best you're going to get. but if the problem is distraction (which is mostly my case lately) i think there's value in both avoiding those tools and toughing through it trying to stay heads-down on something.
llm use while caring for a baby/dog is the most emblematic example of the latter that i keep encountering - it's a technology that's great if you have 10 minutes at a time to work on something and want a computer to be chugging along (focusing?) in the meantime
blocked out an hour for my 'focused free time somewhat hard engineering' side project. makes me think about focus & distraction: real focus imho only comes downstream of both effort & quality-of-life stuff like uninterrupted free time. lots of tech either breaks focus or caters to unfocused work.
the device in question (inspired by @cwervo.bsky.social) excited to carry this thing on runs/rides when i don't bring my phone) 
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Binge code this weekend with free "Ox Alpha" 🐐 
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railway.com/changelog/2026-08-20-railway-anon Congratulations to this week's winners! Want your build here next Friday? Ship something that teaches one idea and submit it to the wall. Browse everything shipped so far: ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app/showcase
5k credits winner: "MIDI & site music" by David Kimball.
The newest plate in his field guide to the old web covers the era when a personal page came with its own soundtrack.
yahew.com/plates/midi/ 5k credits winner: "Do You Speak AI?" by Mark Bowley.
It's a glossary of 50 key AI terms, from FLOPs to scaling laws, with flashcards and a quiz to make them stick.
doyouspeakai.netlify.app The 10k credits winner: "Memory Room" by Waela Felnert. Study the rooms, remember the details, and test your memory in a playful visual memory game. memory-room.netlify.app
Week three of #NetlifyBackToSchool is done, and three more builders are splitting 20,000 credits. Each of them shipped an app that made us want to stay and learn. Let's hear it for this week's three: 
You don't have to wait until something feels finished before sharing it. KP and Tania talk about getting ideas into people's hands earlier, learning from real feedback, and deciding what to keep building.
and the answer that i've gotten from friends and inferred from these experiences is something like collective power, communities, co-ops, etc. and i saw this a bit - nodding toward collectively-owned ai or training data. i find this very vague/frustrating/hand-wavy personally.
the rorty theory (from achieving our country) tells of a 1960s shift from big-tent socialism to a narrow radical marxism that is pretty uninterested in our current government. that really plays out imho, in the disinterest in using policy to achieve ends. and it begs the question of "where power is"
- the level of discourse was sometimes frustratingly thin, on economics / zoning / copyright / etc - i will avoid generalizing from this event, because dsa != people who show up != leftists != voters != socialist-aligned politicians
brief notes: - most panelists and the audience were focused on abolishing ai and datacenters - the tax policy (which i love) got a lot of probing questions, which were expertly answered - rorty's theory that post-1960s socialism is an anti-government libertarian movement continues to be correct
Netlify Source brings version control protections to every project without requiring a separate repo or a GitHub account. Dana Lawson explains the thinking behind it and what the platform picks up next.
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