5. The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y (neon.com)

There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of magnitude quicker. Maybe there’s some reason the results are no longer needed. Or maybe you, or your LLM buddy, […]

9. Dataframe 1.0.0.0 (discourse.haskell.org)

It’s been roughly two years of work on this and I think things are in a good enough state that it’s worth calling this v1. Features Typed dataframes We got there eventually and I think we got there in a way that still looks nice. There is now a DataFrame.Typed API that tracks the entire schema of the dataframe - column names, misapplied operations etc are now compile time failures and you can easily move between exploratory and pipeline work. This is in large part thanks to maxigit and mcoady (...

21. A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption (jtsylve.blog)

PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP and prevent reuse in third-party SPICE simulators. The encryption scheme is proprietary and undocumented.

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