Prasenjeet Dutta

Software engineer in London. Tweets are personal. RTs ≠ Endorsements.

[Prasenjeet Dutta @pdutta]

@madmanweb I’ve not experienced this, but I’ve only had an account for a year+. Also seems pretty easy to reset the MPIN — card details / account number + OTP.

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@BagrodiaS @madmanweb IDFC’s netbanking works well with password managers.

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@madmanweb I can’t actually recollect if they actually blocked paste while *setting up* the password, but Don’t F with Paste is a useful extension here. And their netbanking login is password-manager friendly.

[Prasenjeet Dutta @pdutta]

@madmanweb IDFC First Bank seems to be pretty decent from a good UX perspective. Nothing flashy, but that’s a plus in my eyes. Onboarding was pretty decent too.

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@NeedForTheta @saketh1998 Airports with newer CT scanners (eg LHR) allow liquids up to 2L and laptops that don’t have to be taken out from bags. https://t.co/5upAPRLSUm

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@RobR44133618 @RIPDexterAlm Interestingly, at one point the SNP said they’d vote against reforms to Sunday trading laws in England.

https://t.co/fJGMVM3uRL

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@Goothr3nMusic @JenMsft I loved PowerToys when they came out, and I agree — if the goal is to build excitement for Windows, it’s time to evolve the PowerToys ‘brand’ and move the best features into Windows. The ones that didn’t make it can always be on the Microsoft Store.

[Nik Samokhvalov @samokhvalov]

PgQue v0.1.0 is out.

PgQ -- the Postgres queue system built at Skype 20 years ago for 1B-user-scale workloads -- repackaged for the managed-Postgres era. One SQL file. No C extension. No external daemon. pg_cron to tick.

Why bother reviving a 2007 architecture?

Every major Postgres queue in production today uses some flavor of SKIP LOCKED + UPDATE/DELETE. It works under light load. When you have more data and higher load, it degrades predictably. Then you get posts like these:
- Brandur at Heroku, 2015: 60k job backlog in one hour from a single open transaction
- PlanetScale, 2026: death spiral at 800 jobs/sec
- River issue #59, awa issue #169 and so on, Oban's partitioning work, PGMQ's autovacuum tuning guide and duct-taping with pg_partman

The core issue is how Postgres MVCC is implemented and how we deal with it. Dead tuples in the hot path, xmin horizon pinned, vacuum falling behind, query performance quickly degrades. This happens every time you run pg_dump, execute an analytical query, or have a lagging/unused logical replication slot.

PgQ solved this in 2007 with snapshot-based batching and TRUNCATE rotation -- zero dead tuples in the event
path, by design.

But PgQ needed a C extension and an external daemon. Which means it doesn't run on RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Supabase, or Neon -- i.e., where most
Postgres lives now.

PgQue closes that gap.

💎 Pure SQL + PL/pgSQL (PgQ engine)
👩‍💻 \i sql/pgque.sql -- you're done
🕑 pg_cron replaces pgqd (optional, recommended)
💻 Python, Go, TypeScript client examples shipped
💙 Apache 2.0

Trade-off: end-to-end event delivery latency is up to a second, it depends on ticking frequency. If you need sub-3ms job dispatch, use River, Oban, or graphile-worker (and avoid anything that blocks xmin horizon). If you need high-throughput event streaming with fan-out inside Postgres -- Kafka-shaped, without Kafka and dealing with transactional outbox implementation -- this is the right shape of tool.

Kudos to Marko Kreen and Skype engineers who implemented this decades ago, for the original PgQ, and to Alexander Kukushkin whose recent "Rediscovering PgQ" talk brought this quiet corner of the Postgres ecosystem back into view.

Stars, issues, PRs, and honest criticism all welcome.

Link 👇

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

10 terminal tools that make you 10x faster in 2026:

1. zoxide
A smarter cd that learns your habits. Type "z proj" and it jumps to the directory you actually meant.
Repo → https://t.co/pZCH3ZQt9F

2. fzf
The fuzzy finder that powers half the terminal world. Search files, processes, git branches, shell history, anything.
Repo → https://t.co/nWEAbBMTm6

3. ripgrep
10x faster than grep. Respects .gitignore by default. Once you use it, you can never go back.
Repo → https://t.co/kb1OcCH9NQ

4. lazygit
Every git command you hate, now one keypress away. Interactive rebase feels like cheating.
Repo → https://t.co/f9fDuU6VKT

5. starship
A shell prompt that shows git status, language versions, and cloud context. Works on every shell. Renders in under 10ms.
Repo → https://t.co/Snotb0pW5B

6. atuin
Replaces your shell history with a searchable SQLite database. Syncs encrypted across every machine you own.
Repo → https://t.co/j0tedZ18wi

7. bat
cat with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and git integration. Your terminal will never look the same.
Repo → https://t.co/omdUbpX14E

8. eza
A modern ls with colors, icons, and git status built in. Makes every directory readable at a glance.
Repo → https://t.co/MxRtY8Jipo

9. yazi
A blazing fast file manager that runs in your terminal. Image previews, async I/O, vim keybindings.
Repo → https://t.co/egfS6pkLfx

10. delta
Turns git diff into something you actually want to read. Side-by-side view, syntax highlighting, line numbers.
Repo → https://t.co/GHJCrGMMm9

[Prasenjeet Dutta @pdutta]

@edandersen Enterprise Mac use has exploded even among very traditional Windows-heavy enterprises. Assuming enterprises don’t have options re OS is like saying they’re wedded to IE. We know how that movie turned out.

[Prasenjeet Dutta @pdutta]

@madmanweb If your workplace insists on this, it might be worth getting a 2nd number you can disable. WhatsApp rolled out a multiple account feature in India a while back. https://t.co/YYgzjyEMOJ

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@prasenx Building a small-scale video sharing site (< 500k users) can actually be a fun learning experience.

[Prasenjeet Dutta @pdutta]

@prasenx Instagram, Facebook Videos, TikTok, X … a number of video sites operate at massive scale. And arguably Youtube lags in short-form video. There’s also niche platforms like Vimeo and MS’s Stream. I suspect the blocker to building an alternative isn’t technical.

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@fxshaw @yuusharo Microsoft can take on 3 regulators to buy Activision, but not engage with EU regulators to make Windows safer? Is that what you’re really saying?

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@suschatgpt Reminds me of the old saying, “ghranena ardhabhojanam”. In this case it’s “Press Release-ena ardha implementationam”.

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@vyavaharkar @beastoftraal Completely agree. Germany has a ~40% fail rate in their famously tough driving test. The UK first-attempt *pass rate* is ~52%. You’ll still have idiots on roads (and the insurance system takes care of them) but there’s no substitute for well-trained drivers.

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@ianbremmer I am shocked, shocked, that people aren’t enjoying the sunlit uplands that the Brexiteers worked so hard to bring about.

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@connctSreekanth @madmanweb Worth noting: this is effectively a 3-year license, because Office 2021’s “lifetime” ends October 2026. After that, no fixes/security updates.

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@amber_ghaddar @alsheik93 @Hieraaetus TIL the etymology of the Rabi and Kharif crops in India https://t.co/2DPmIJZhUK

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@madmanweb I think most Conservatives would welcome a return to the old ways, when barbers could, and would, pull teeth. Down with gatekeeping and credentialism and all that.

(More seriously, hygienists exist and play a valuable role. But this was an avoidable gaffe by Sunak.)