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Re:Fefe is back by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @03:27PM (#46176347)
"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"

He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd the blog is probably served from (gatling/0.17)

https://www.fefe.de

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Re:Fefe is back by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @04:21PM (#46176697)
"djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...

Re:Fefe is back by happytoexplain on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:49PM (#46177300)
Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.
Re:Fefe is back by freidenker on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:42PM (#46199858)
There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog
Re:Fefe is back by happytoexplain on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:04PM (#46200795)
Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.
Re:Fefe is back by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:31PM (#46201242)
Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap

https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...

Hence the comment about not using Postgres