Ben Johnson

Working on Litestream at @flydotio to help developers run SQLite in production and at scale.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@levelsio @litestreamio Let me know if you have any questions or feedback on Litestream!

[Philip O'Toole @general_order24]

Taking control of the #sqlite WAL - a deep dive into how rqlite lifts the lid on SQLite. And a h/t to @benbjohnson whose work on Litestream showed it was possible.

https://t.co/D13Ew9PnRZ

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@tqbf I didn’t want to believe it either but I heard it in an interview with him

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

Annie really did do a killer job distilling Litestream down. I don’t even think I can explain Litestream in four minutes.

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

One of the better Annie videos (which is saying something), condensing Litestream down to 4 minutes.

https://t.co/SS4oVq6aC2

[Chris McCord @chris_mccord]

I just got opt-in, per-transaction synchronous replication working for litestream. I haven't written c in 25 years. The whole LLM thing is pretty neat

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. https://t.co/SpiIy7DEc9

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@mitchellh Thanks for the post, that was great. It lines up with a lot of how I use AI too. I find contexting switching to be brutal.

I'm also not inclined to have multiple agents going at the same time because I expect agent performance will increase and it will be a moot point soon.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@nnajiabraham @wesmckinn @JonathanRoseD Yeah, Litestream would work well for the SQLite side. If you need to back up the DuckDB side though, I’m not sure what’s available.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

https://t.co/TPZ7BXcxFH

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

I’ve noticed in the past when I tried CC for features in the past that it would get something fundamental wrong and then make later decisions based off those poor fundamental choices and the whole code change would be fucked.

With a phased approach, I can’t correct those fundamental choices early.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@bradgessler @zeddotdev I haven’t tried Zed but I’ve found success with Claude Code when I make phased plans and step through each phase one at a time. It’s been good at spitting out a small bit of code that’s easy to review and it can help me in breaking up large feature work.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@bradgessler Your company parties are going to be a hoot 🍻

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

I’m tempted to make a Chrome extension that hides all blog posts and YouTube videos that have the phrase “this changes everything” in it.

Is everyone just asking Claude to make up their titles these days and that’s why they’re all the same?

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@corylanou He's also the person that got me into writing Go more than 12 years ago. He's someone I look to for understanding upcoming trends more than anyone else.

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

I've been harassing my friend @corylanou to start recording his workflow with Claude Code. He's taught me so much on AI in the last few months and he finally released his first video! Check it out and give him some feedback. 🙏 https://t.co/wWstvaKQUd

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@fideloper Can you ask Claude to remove that guardrail from your Claude installation?

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@fideloper @aarondfrancis @steve_tenuto I just bought it! Thanks!

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

@fideloper @aarondfrancis @steve_tenuto Oh damn, how’d I miss that 🤦‍♂️