If I Had a Nickel...

Sat, 23 May 2026 23:53:30 +0200

… for every time I wrote a blog whose reason for existence was invalidated within weeks of publication, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

First,

I put some effort into writing down exactly how to run FerretDB, an open-source document database. While large parts of it are still useful to show how to setup a self-recovering database with CloudNativePG, FerretDB has been slowly disappearing since after legal issues and the Linux Foundation adopting a different open source document database project. I cannot claim to know the how or why, but of course I regret this, as they were a community-focused small company taking on a huge corporation and fighting for an open standard. That open standard is there now: unfortunately, FerretDB isn’t anymore.

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If I Had a Nickel...

… for every time I wrote a blog whose reason for existence was invalidated within weeks of publication, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

First,