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• http_status_codes table

  February 23rd, 2026

  I've been doing a lot of web scraping for various AI tools. This includes model training, and search functionality. One thing I find myself doing is generating lots of prototypes.

  Each prototype requires me to write a new db schema and one thing they share in common is the need for a http_status_codes table to record the final status response of a web page. You could store the value as an int, or string, or even as json to make it queryable. But I feel taking the time to create and populate a table of the status codes is much more advantageous for querying and indexing. So to help future Brian I have pasted the code used to generate this table below.

• Add generics to MariaDB Node Connector

  February 17th, 2026

  When working with an instance of a MariaDB database I noticed that the npm package used to connect did not support Typescript generics. This was something I felt I could fix, so I sent in a PR.

• Modeling Tags in a Postgres schema

  February 16th, 2026

  When working on a db schema to model the OpenGraph protocol I made an initial mistake with how I modelled tags within the database.

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• 17/02 Add generics to MariaDB Node Connector
• 16/02 Modeling Tags in a Postgres schema
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• 14/02 GameDev in C Part 4: A Snake Clone
• 01/02 I'm off social media
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• 04/01 I joined social media
• 02/01 2025 new year's resolutions

• 2024 - 19 posts

• 31/12 Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
• 05/12 Rust, the Cunning Wizard
• 25/11 Partial function implementation
• 18/11 Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
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• 31/10 Using the form attribute on buttons
• 21/10 I wrote a test framework in Julia
• 17/10 Sensible SQLite defaults
• 15/10 Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
• 09/10 Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
• 06/10 Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
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• 30/09 Writing a DB migrator in Go
• 22/09 Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
• 15/09 Bit shifting to increase performance
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