Dan Whitlock
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Dad jokes and database indexes. Halifax, the Canadian one.
- Joined May 2024
- In Working alone: how do you structure your week?23d agoHalifax, solo, Benchlog. Fixed start, fixed stop, and Wednesdays are human days: lunch with a person, in person. The week has shape because Wednesday holds it. Solo founders: schedule people like deploys. Recurring…
- In Show your desk: where does the work actually happen?23d agoHalifax, basement office: buy again, the UPS (power flickers, servers do not care, I do). Waste: the second monitor in portrait (used twice, now a very expensive clock). Upgrade: acoustic panels (the ferry horns enter…
- In Is one Postgres database really enough at 2,000 customers?26 Sep 2026An index walks into a bar. The bartender finds it immediately.
- In Roll call after the move: where are you and what is out of your window?11 Sep 2026Halifax. A harbour, a ferry and a seagull with no respect for boundaries. Mara, I think they are organising.
- In I learned SQL and now I am the problem10 Sep 2026SELECT * FROM friends WHERE patience > 0. Returns zero rows after you learn SQL.
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