Pascal CESCATO articles - 20 total
From WordPress to Astro: Three Days to Reclaim Control
When performance, simplicity, and control replace endless maintenance. 1. The Tipping...
MyScaleDB: Why Vector Databases Need SQL (The 2025 Reality Check)
Context: I'm architecting a system analyzing 26M+ legal documents per year across 188,000 family law...
WordPress to Hugo: Lightning Fast Sites in 2025
I shared how I transformed my old laptop into a home server. That experimental setup became the...
Using CTEs When Your ORM Says No (The Lazy Developer's Survival Guide)
You just spent two articles learning about CTEs. You're excited. You've seen the power. You...
Building Reliable Legal AI: Never Missing a Supreme Court Case
When Three AI Tools Missed Three SCOTUS Decisions: A Technical Post-Mortem A roadmap to build...
The Illusion of Control
After exposing the theater (I) and watching its actors perfect their organized laziness (II), it’s...
Recursive CTEs: Because Writing Nested Loops for Trees is Psychopathic (and a Little Masochistic Too)
One SQL query to traverse entire hierarchies. No loops, no N+1 queries, no tears. Just elegant...
Efficient Laziness at Scale: The Agile Team I Never Needed
It was never there. And if it had been, I’d have dissolved it on day one. How I run my mega...
Your ORM is Lying to You About SQL (CTEs Explained)
Readable SQL isn’t a myth. It’s a WITH. You know that feeling when you open a SQL query you wrote...
Actually Agile: Against Performance Theater in Software Development
"You're not a Certified Scrum Master? Then you can't possibly understand." I've heard this too many...
AgentKit: How Efficient Laziness Fixes Fragile LLM Workflows
How I stopped debugging JSON parsing errors and started shipping features TL;DR I hate...
Database Design: Start from Business Logic or Jump into Code?
TL;DR Before writing a single line of code, take one day to model your data. Find the...
AI Weekly #2 — Thanks for the Feedback!
Hey everyone! Last week, I shared my first AI newsletter and received some valuable feedback. Thank...
Building with AI without losing control: Claude, Mistral, and me
TL;DR This isn't really about WordPress or a security plugin. It's about how to...
AI Weekly — Seeking Honest Feedback
Hey everyone! I've recently started putting together a weekly AI newsletter where I share what I...
From Pocket to Wallabag: A Self-Hosted Migration Story
When Pocket shut down without warning, thousands of carefully curated articles vanished into a CSV...
From Zero to 1 B Vectors: the 2025 No-BS Picking Guide
Pick a vector DB in 5 min: benchmarks, Docker one-liners, cost cheat-sheet → no more scroll-of-death...
AI-Assisted Development
🚀 I just built a production-ready WordPress plugin in 3h40 using AI. Here's how it changed my...
WordPress vs Hugo: When Reality Challenges the Speed Myths
This morning, I published a comprehensive migration guide "From WordPress to Hugo: A Complete...
I Replaced My $6/Month VPS with a 2017 Laptop and Cut Costs to Zero
Complete guide with Ubuntu Server + Docker stack, performance benchmarks, and real-world results. How...