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If you're running Postgres in production, a new tool called Safe Not Safe is trying to answer one of the most nerve-wracking questions in database management: will this migration quietly break something? The site walks engineers through common migration patterns and flags which ones carry real risk — a practical resource for teams who've learned the hard way that a missing index can take down a service at the worst possible moment.
On a related note in the database world, developer Peter Steinberger shared a candid post-mortem about moving his app OpenClaw to SQLite. The core mistake? Running database operations synchronously on the main thread. It sounds like a small architectural decision, but it cascades quickly into frozen interfaces and frustrated users — a reminder that SQLite's simplicity can lull you into skipping the discipline that any database still demands.
And in the foldables space, Apple has officially entered with the iPhone Duo, bringing the total number of folding smartphones available to American consumers to seven. But as one analysis points out, the laptop side of the foldable story remains almost entirely stalled — just a handful of devices across four manufacturers, with no sign of the momentum that phones have found.
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