You can animate an .svg and it will play even with an `` or `background-image`, making it a viable GIF replacement if you can pull it off!

There are usually multiple ways to do the same thing on the web. Sometimes… a lot of ways. Which is “better” can be a matter of taste or which abstraction buys the most value. Check out this CSS example and see which you prefer.

Cursor has an “auto” mode, “but if you care about cost or predictability, it’s worth picking models manually.” says Steve Kinney.

Cursor is an AI-focused VS Code fork. Here’s Steve Kinney with a nice overview of what it offers and how to start getting help out of it right away.

Postgres creates an execution plan for how to retrieve the data you’re asking for in a query. The execution plan is based in part on statistics from your data and indexes it has available. Just the right index and a bit of query tuning can have a huge payoff in performance gains that your users will notice.

This Part 1 (of a 2-part series) is a practical, hands-on, applicable approach to database indexes. We’ll cover what B Trees are with a focus on deeply understanding, and internalizing how they store data on disk, and how your database uses them to speed up queries. This will set us up nicely for part 2, […]