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Database Indexing & Query Performance

⚡ TL;DR: Understand why a query instant at 1,000 rows times out at 10 million. Use indexes where they help (and skip them where they hurt), read an EXPLAIN plan to see what the planner chose, and kill…

• Orders table grew from 1,000 to 10 million rows
• Database performed full scan instead of using index
• Query performance degraded from instant to 8 seconds

2026-10-01 ·dev.to

pwasm 0.2a0

Release: pwasm 0.2a0 pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania .

2026-10-01 ·simonwillison.net

PHP Attributes in Laravel 13: goodbye to sparse properties in models

Il problema delle property sparse nei modelli Eloquent Fino a Laravel 12, configurare un modello Eloquent significava definire proprietà come $table , $fillable , $hidden , $casts e $primaryKey sparse…

2026-10-01 ·dev.to

An Icon API Should Be Able to Say “RTL Behavior Unknown

Right-to-left support creates an interesting problem for icon libraries. Some icons clearly depend on reading direction. Others clearly do not.

• Right-to-left support complicates icon libraries, some icons need distinct RTL assets.
• Icon aggregator must handle cases where RTL behavior is undocumented from various sources.
• An API should return directionality metadata indicating source of information, not just direction.

2026-10-01 ·dev.to

The death of web development education

2026-10-01 ·molily.de