# queries (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 114 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover queries. Page: Feed: --- ## ["My spine pressed into my throat." Please stop writing emotion this way.](https://parkerpeevyhouse.substack.com/p/describing-emotion) _2026-08-22 · Parker Peevyhouse · The Writer's Attic_ Emotions shouldn't turn bodies into houses of horror ## [An animated FAQ accordion in pure HTML](https://markodenic.tech/an-animated-faq-accordion-in-pure-html/) _2026-08-22 · Marko · Marko Denic Tech_ Delete every line of accordion JavaScript. Three lines of CSS replace it. ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: local\_preload\_libraries](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-local_preload_libraries/) _2026-08-22 · the build_ Load shared libraries per-session from a single curated directory, no superuser needed. ## [The JasperFx / CritterStack AI and Event Modeling Strategy](https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/08/21/the-jasperfx-critterstack-ai-and-event-modeling-strategy/) _2026-08-21 · jeremydmiller · The Shade Tree Developer_ Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that topics related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) are pretty well dominating most conversations about software development right now. I’d like to lay out the Critter Stack community and JasperFx‘s strategy is for AI assisted software development at this moment and talk about all the … Continue reading The JasperFx /… ## [The AGPL: Radioactive by Design](https://thebuild.com/blog/the-agpl-radioactive-by-design/) _2026-08-21 · the build_ Google maintains a public web page whose entire purpose is to tell Google engineers not to use one specific open source license. Not a general licensing policy (they have one of those too); a dedicated page, for one license, that opens with “MUST NOT” in capital letters and goes on to prohibit in… ## [✨The Modern Guide to Querying Literary Agents. Plus, Mapping Out Your Revisions✨](https://theshitaboutwriting.substack.com/p/an-excerpt-from-the-modern-guide) _2026-08-21 · The Shit No One Tells You About Writing_ Also, we have three incredible author interviews this week! ## [✨Q&A with rising literary agent Tali Shammas!✨](https://carolinemadden.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-rising-literary-agent-88b) _2026-08-21 · Caroline Madden · Rising Tide Writers_ Plus: a special query link! ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: lock\_timeout](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-lock_timeout/) _2026-08-21 · the build_ Prevent your migration from starving behind long-running queries. ## [Go 1.27's Runtime and Compiler: A Buffer Removed, Labels Added, Allocation Sped Up](https://ajitem.com/blog/go-1-27-runtime-and-compiler/) _2026-08-21 · Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer_ go1.27rc1 removes the last escape hatch back to buffered timer channels, puts pprof labels in crash tracebacks by default, and speeds up small allocations by up to 39%. I benchmarked all three and ranked them by how badly each one can surprise you. ## [CritterWatch 1.0 is live!](https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/08/20/critterwatch-1-0-is-live/) _2026-08-20 · jeremydmiller · The Shade Tree Developer_ CritterWatch 1.0 dropped yesterday, and you can read the official release on the JasperFx Software site. This blog post is just me being thankful for all the folks who helped build CritterWatch or test it along the way: And to Oskar Dudycz for all his contributions across the Critter Stack as much of CritterWatch are … Continue reading CritterWatch 1.0 is live! → ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q5N7BmCdX1hK) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: krb\_caseins\_users and krb\_server\_keyfile](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-krb_caseins_users-and-krb_server_keyfile/) _2026-08-20 · the build_ PostgreSQL's GSSAPI authentication relies on two server-wide settings: \`krb\_server\_keyfile\` points to a dedicated keytab file (never share the system one), and… ## [What Actually Happens on \`git push\`](https://ajitem.com/blog/beneath-the-porcelain-part-2-what-actually-happens-on-git-push/) _2026-08-20 · Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer_ Ref negotiation and packfile transfer, traced with \`GIT\_TRACE\_PACKET\`, and the CI failure modes they quietly explain: force-push races, corrupted refs, and "Everything up-to-date" surprises. ## [Local-only Voice Dictation](https://jaketrent.com/post/local-only-voice-dictation) _2026-08-20 · Jake Trent · jaketrent.com_ Local-only Voice Dictation ## [CritterWatch 1.0 Live Stream Today](https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/08/19/critterwatch-1-0-live-stream-today/) _2026-08-19 · jeremydmiller · The Shade Tree Developer_ We’re doing a live stream today on the CritterWatch 1.0 release — but it’s maybe a little dicy whether the official release happens before or after the live stream:-) ## [Query Club](https://parkerpeevyhouse.substack.com/p/query-club-12) _2026-08-19 · Parker Peevyhouse · The Writer's Attic_ In which I critique your query letters ## [Agent Alert: 11 New Openings](https://agentalert.substack.com/p/agent-alert-11-new-openings-d87) _2026-08-19 · Agent Alert_ Agents who have newly opened to queries (August 12 - 18) ## [A real chart in 15 lines of SVG, no library](https://markodenic.tech/a-real-chart-in-15-lines-of-svg-no-library/) _2026-08-19 · Marko · Marko Denic Tech_ No chart library needed. Inline SVG plots your data in 15 lines, scales to any container, and styles with the same CSS as everything else. ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: join\_collapse\_limit](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-joincollapselimit/) _2026-08-19 · the build_ PostgreSQL famously does not implement query hints. This is about 95% true, and join\_collapse\_limit is the other 5%: set it to 1, and the planner joins your tables in exactly the order you wrote them. This is not an exploit or an accident of implementation; it is documented, and according to Tom … ## [The go1.27 Goroutine Leak Profile: What Reachability Can and Cannot See](https://ajitem.com/blog/go-1-27-goroutine-leak-profile/) _2026-08-19 · Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer_ go1.27 adds a goroutineleak profile to runtime/pprof that finds goroutines blocked on unreachable primitives. I built three fixtures: two it catches, and one identical leak it cannot see, because a package-level map still holds the channel. ## [CritterWatch RC.10 — the final one!](https://jeremydmiller.com/2026/08/18/critterwatch-rc-10-the-final-one/) _2026-08-18 · jeremydmiller · The Shade Tree Developer_ CritterWatch will have its 1.0 release tomorrow (Wednesday, August 19th) just in time for a live stream on YouTube to show just the user interface part of CritterWatch. Today though, we finally got one last RC.10 release out for some much delayed feedback. We made a large amount of changes to optimize performance based on … Continue reading CritterWatch RC.10 — the final one! → ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qZ0u5pvex2dv) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [SB 1000: Everyone Is a Covered Provider Now](https://thebuild.com/blog/sb-1000-everyone-is-a-covered-provider-now/) _2026-08-18 · the build_ California SB 1000 is sitting on Assembly third reading right now, and the Legislature has until midnight on 31 August to pass it. It amends the California AI Transparency Act, which has only been operative since 2 August. If you ship model weights, or host anyone else’s, you should read it befor… ## [✨Query Critiques Inside! Plus, Writing for Today's Audience; Not Giving Up; & Meeting Your Dream Agent✨](https://theshitaboutwriting.substack.com/p/query-critiques-inside-plus-knowing) _2026-08-18 · The Shit No One Tells You About Writing_ Also, what do birdhouses have to do with creative writing? ## [AI Overviews just launched in France, and they already appear on more than 52% of searches](https://seranking.com/blog/ai-overviews-france-study/) _2026-08-18 · Yulia Deda · SE Ranking Blog_ Our analysis of 100,000 French searches found that AI Overviews appear on 1 in 2 queries, with YouTube and Facebook among the top cited sources. ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: jit\_debugging\_support, jit\_dump\_bitcode, and jit\_profiling\_support](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-jit_debugging_support-jit_dump_bitcode-and-jit_profiling_support/) _2026-08-18 · the build_ Inspect the LLVM bitcode PostgreSQL generates with \`jit\_dump\_bitcode\`, or wire JIT-compiled functions into GDB and perf with \`jit\_debugging\_support\` and… ## [Sixteen Locks Ought to Be Enough for Anybody](https://thebuild.com/blog/sixteen-locks-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/) _2026-08-17 · the build_ Every query locks every index on a table, even ones it doesn't use. ## [Deciphering Date Differences with DATEDIFF](https://connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/17/deciphering-date-differences-with-datediff/) _2026-08-17 · Connor McDonald · Learning is not a spectator sport_ (Try saying that 5 times quickly in a row) 🙂 There’s an old saying that’s gone around for years in IT circles which is “If you have a text parsing problem you can use a regular expression…now you have two problems“. I’d like to steal that phrase and manipulate it for the sake of today’s \[…\] ## [Kernel Modules](https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/linux-kernel-module-system/) _2026-08-17 · Internals for Interns_ At the end of the previous article we handed a request to "the driver" and let it disappear into the hardware. That's been the pattern for a while now: the VFS hands off to a filesystem, the block layer hands off to a driver, the network stack hands off to a NIC driver. Every one of those handoffs ends at some code that wasn't in the kernel image when the machine booted. ## [All Your GUCs in a Row: jit\_above\_cost, jit\_inline\_above\_cost, and jit\_optimize\_above\_cost](https://thebuild.com/blog/all-your-gucs-in-a-row-jit_above_cost-jit_inline_above_cost-and-jit_optimize_above_cost/) _2026-08-17 · the build_ PostgreSQL's JIT compiler fires based on estimated query cost, but that estimate measures data volume, not expression complexity. ## [Parallel Branches Without Stashing: \`git worktree\`](https://ajitem.com/blog/git-quick-hits-part-2-parallel-branches-without-stashing-git-worktree/) _2026-08-17 · Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer_ Reviewing a PR while you're mid-feature usually means stash, checkout, review, checkout, stash pop, and hope nothing got left behind. git worktree checks out a second branch into its own folder instead. ## [Go 1.27 and encoding/json/v2: The Engine Changed, the Contract Didn't](https://ajitem.com/blog/go-1-27-json-v2/) _2026-08-17 · Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | Lead Technology Consultant & Full-Stack Engineer_ go1.27rc1 replaces the engine under encoding/json with encoding/json/v2 internals, and existing callers will not notice: the v1 shims restore every v1 semantic, including two the v2 docs call security relevant. What moved is performance, split by payload shape and direction, and what moved is opt-in, behind an explicit import. ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QwHHF5rUd1By) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [My HTML boilerplate in 2026](https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/html-boilerplate) _2026-08-17 · Manuel Matuzović - Blog_ Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why. Five years ago, I shared the HTML boilerplate I use for most of my projects. Since then, a lot has happened in HTML. It's time to give it an update. My boilerplate This is the final document. Scroll down for details. \ \ \ \ \