Ben Burwell

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I occasionally write about things like welding , DHCP , and the Dewey Decimal Classification .

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Don't Make Visitors Make Accounts

2015143 points83 comments Web & Frontend details

Few things bother me more than when I am forced to make an account to have some basic interaction with a website.

Transactions Are Not Locks (2022)

2023128 points50 comments Databases & Data details

One thing I wish I had understood better earlier on in my experience with PostgreSQL is how transactions and locks can be used together to provide serializable logic.