Bob Bass

👨🏻‍💻 Software Engineer
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[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@LayerbaseDB @denicmarko DuckDB? Clickhouse?

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@alexbass @AndraVomir @jonbarmby @vitorviesi I remember what I was explaining in that photo, indexing app slugs to prevent slow lookups

[Andra Vomir @AndraVomir]

We relaunched https://t.co/Bhc5mAlJ3Q! Huge shout out to the team @bobDotJS, @jonbarmby, @vitorviesi and of course @alexbass for making it possible 🚀

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@housecor Definitely its own repo. If it's the same language, maybe you can make an argument for type sharing but otherwise you're complicating CI/CD and exposing each app to the other apps problems. Name collisions, environment bleed, it's not really defensible.

[Alex Bass (efficient.app) @alexbass]

You search Google or ChatGPT for the "best software"

and get back what looks like a recommendation.

But those recommendations are shaped by incentives you never see.

Here's how it actually works:

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@adarshsojitra @TTrimoreau Where do you host them?

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@manojdotdev C#. Nothing wrong with it except .NET

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@alexbass @steventey @dubdotco @mintlify @upstash @aisdk @claudeai I'm talking about the search/chat stack

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@alexbass @steventey @dubdotco @mintlify @upstash @aisdk @claudeai We need to take some inspiration

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@alexbass It's actually crazy how many resources have gone into making this happen, I'm thrilled to see positive feedback!

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@AaronPeddle In the time it takes to drive to the office you could close out 2 linear tickets while you brew your coffee

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@realWokeism @TeamCherryGames This comment isn't going to age well 30 years from now

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@iyoushetwt npx spindb gives you your choice of 16 different databases and counting but nobody has discovered it what

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@trikcode You can even use Postgres as a MongoDB database with FerretDB

(soon to be added to `pnpx spindb`)

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

You can now run @qdrant_engine locally without Docker on any OS (macOS, Linux, Windows) and
architecture (x64, ARM):

pnpx spindb create mydb -e qdrant

or the interactive CLI:
pnpx spindb@latest

No containers. No compose files. No drama. Just vectors. 🧭

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@tonychang430 @vivoplt @insforge You forgot to add SpinDB (npx spindb)

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@pigskinpetey @MbarkCherguia I'm a buffalonian myself, I don't understand the need to add "go bills" into everything

I literally have 716 tattooed on me

I love Buffalo, but what is this impulse?

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@jfbrly The Postgres MCP server with Claude code has been nothing short of incredible in my experience

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

@Star_Knight12 @antigravity Windsurf plus Claude Code Max. $130/mo has been the right combo for me for many months now

[Bob Bass @bobDotJS]

Every engineer I know is back to building passion projects again