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Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:19:12 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en https://i.imgur.com/3OWnvTa.png https://spacetimepost.com/articles All rights reserved 2026, Spacetime Publishing Ltd https://spacetimepost.com/articles/semantic-deduplication-with-openai-embeddings-and-pgvector https://spacetimepost.com/articles/semantic-deduplication-with-openai-embeddings-and-pgvector Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:22:22 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/how-kafka-achieves-high-performance-even-on-hard-disks https://spacetimepost.com/articles/how-kafka-achieves-high-performance-even-on-hard-disks Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:06:23 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/golang-crash-course-part-10-observability-and-distributed-tracing https://spacetimepost.com/articles/golang-crash-course-part-10-observability-and-distributed-tracing Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:02:36 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) 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17:09:18 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/understanding-change-data-capture-cdc-the-backbone-of-real-time-data-systems https://spacetimepost.com/articles/understanding-change-data-capture-cdc-the-backbone-of-real-time-data-systems Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:14:35 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/golang-crash-course-part-9-pub-sub-and-reliable-http-callbacks https://spacetimepost.com/articles/golang-crash-course-part-9-pub-sub-and-reliable-http-callbacks Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:08:58 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/javascript-objects-prototypes-and-constructor-functions-from-surface-to-heap https://spacetimepost.com/articles/javascript-objects-prototypes-and-constructor-functions-from-surface-to-heap Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:02:30 GMT benmeehan3@gmail.com (Ben Meehan) https://spacetimepost.com/articles/simulating-used-car-ownership-cost-with-monte-carlo-estimation-in-go 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