Ryan Williams @ryanwi

Software development, sports, startups, podcasts, cars. Building Car Curious. I enjoy a nice API and a shiny object. #goducks ryanwilliams.dev Portland, OR Joined April 2008

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

13 hours ago

Honda Recalls 1M+ Accord Hybrids and CR-Vs Over a Tire Repair Kit That Has Injured 8 People suspension.news/p/honda-recall…

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If we want to build software factories (still an if for me), how can we build good ones? I think that’s the biggest gap in how people use LLMs right now. And I don’t know about you, but I think it all comes down to verification. 👇 germanvelasco.com/blog/draw-the-…

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

2 days ago

The BMW M3 going electric is why 21 outlets covered the reveal in one morning. M built its reputation on character: inline-six sound, sharp steering, pure mechanical engagement. Does an electric M still feel like an M without the engine?

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2 days ago

BMW's Quad-Motor Electric M3 Concept Is a 100 kWh Sedan Built to Silence the Skeptics suspension.news/p/bmw-s-quad-m…

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2 days ago

BMW's Quad-Motor Electric M3 Concept Is a 100 kWh Sedan Built to Silence the Skeptics suspension.news/p/bmw-s-quad-m…

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

3 days ago

Claude migrating a prod (personal project) db from SQLite to PostgreSQL live?! What could go wrong?

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

Portland's first PDX Recovers 5K is July 11, 8:30 AM on the waterfront. Run or walk alongside the men and women of Union Gospel Mission recovery programs, who've spent months training for it. #PDXRecovers #PortlandRunning

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

Frustrating that LinkedIn broke cmd+click to open in tab on external links?! But I guess one less tab to process is probably a good thing in the end anyway.

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

fable code review running general-purpose Angle A: line-by-line scan " Angle B: removed-behavior audit " Angle C: cross-file tracer " Angle: reuse finder " Angle: simplification finder " Angle: efficiency finder " Angle: altitude finder

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

First Fable run through, let's see what it can do on /simplify first

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

Caught a live R2 on release day #rivianr2 #rivian

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

5 days ago

Five reviewers called it "annoyingly good." suspension.news/p/rivian-s-r2-…

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

5 days ago

Today: Rivian delivers a $45K EV it spent years building toward. Also today: 1.3 million Jeeps recalled for catching fire while parked and off. Wrangler owners thinking about that R2 now?

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

4 days ago

@dswiese If you or people you know or Car enthusiasts, this is my new project suspension.news

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Craig Kerstiens @craigkerstiens

4 days ago

Postgres 19 is in beta, and whew is it a doozy of a release. Each Postgres release is a bit different. Sometimes there is a single marque feature, sometimes there is a bunch of small quality of life improvements, often there is something around performance. Postgres 19 seems like it has really some of everything in it including marque areas. I'm going to spend some time over the coming weeks highlighting some of whats coming. And today I want to start off with a bang, built in REPACK! If you have operated Postgres for long enough, you have probably had a moment where you wanted to reclaim table bloat, rewrite a table, or reorganize data, but you very much did not want to take the lock that came with VACUUM FULL. There has long been an extension ecosystem around this problem, most notably pg_repack. That alone tells you something: users had a real need, and the ecosystem filled the gap. And even then pg_repack came with a few caveats in running it. Postgres 19 brings a new REPACK command into core, including support for REPACK CONCURRENTLY. That's right, not just REPACK in core, but being able to run it CONCURRENTLY just like we do for index creation! This is the sort of feature that may not excite someone building a toy app locally, but it matters a lot once your database is large, busy, and important. The difference between "yes, we can clean this up online" and "we need to schedule a maintenance window" is not a small difference. It is the difference between routine maintenance and a project plan. I expect REPACK CONCURRENTLY to be one of those features that production Postgres users care about more than the average release-note reader might expect.

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

5 days ago

@dswiese They consider it obsolete, crazy to me too. I don’t think they can win this one

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Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo

5 days ago

I have a nice routine to share: We commonly communicate technical architecture/proposals in docs. Each night, I load new ones in either a notebookLM or prepare to play the doc in audio. In the morning I go for a walk & listen. Walking and thinking is cathartic. It’s nice to be in nature.

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

6 days ago

So: loops when the work repeats and the world can push back. One-off judgment calls? Just prompt. Recurring checkable work? Build the thing that runs the prompts for you.

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

6 days ago

One question settles it: can anything in the loop say "no"? A test. A typecheck. A browser error. A failed query. A diff that won't apply. If the model only grades its own homework, that's not a workflow. It's a confidence machine.

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Ryan Williams @ryanwi

6 days ago

The "loops vs prompts" debate is mostly people arguing past each other. Loops earn their cost when the task repeats and something can check the output. Otherwise you're just paying more to prompt.