Today Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Rose. She’s a dev and teacher who’s worked on open data projects at Mozilla and lots of open source projects. We talk about: How the whole world is hard, and how embracing that difficulty rather than avoiding it can make you a better thinker The Bad Website club, a free […]
Daily Archives: April 18, 2026
A quiet shift is happening inside modern companies. It’s not visible in dashboards. It’s not tracked in logs. It’s not approved by IT or security teams. Yet it’s everywhere. Employees are using AI tools on their own. They paste code into chatbots to debug faster. They upload documents to summarise reports. They generate emails, analyse […]
Enormous amounts of data are constantly generated on the open web. Product prices change, job listings go live and get taken down, news articles are published, and company information gets updated. For developers and teams that rely on this kind of data, the question has never been whether to scrape the web, but how to […]
Every developer eventually runs into a slow query. The table has grown from a few hundred rows to a few million, and what used to take milliseconds now takes seconds — or worse. The fix, more often than not, is an index. A database index is a data structure that helps the database find rows […]
They say data is the new gold. But navigating through a large dataset to meet the demands of consumers in record time still gives backend devs a headache. Conventional database queries often aren’t totally reliable in getting accurate search results fast. But fortunately, Elasticsearch comes to the rescue. In this article, I’ll walk you through […]