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OpenAI's Codex CLI Agent: The Complete VS Code Setup Guide

This tutorial will guide you through the process of integrating OpenAI’s powerful Codex coding agent directly into your Visual Studio Code environment. This tool functions as an AI pair programmer, capable of understanding complex prompts to execute commands, write code, run tests, and even build entire applications from scratch.
How we loaded a petabyte into PostgreSQL before New Year — and what happened next

It all started as a joke by the office coffee machine. But, as with every decent joke, it suddenly sounded worth trying — and before we knew it, we were knee-deep in an experiment that turned out to be anything but trivial, complete with a whole minefield of gotchas.
It began simply: while everyone else was busy debating hardware tuning and squeezing out extra TPS from their systems, we thought — why not just shove a huge chunk of data into PostgreSQL and see how it holds up? Like, really huge. Say, a one-petabyte database. Let’s see how it survives that.
It was December 10, the boss wanted the report by January 20, and New Year was less than a month away. And that itch that all engineers know? It hit hard.
How to load test PostgreSQL database and not miss anything

During load testing of Tantor Postgres databases or other PostgreSQL-based databases using the standard tool pgbench, specialists often encounter non-representative results and the need for repeated tests due to the fact that details of the environment (such as DBMS configuration, server characteristics, PostgreSQL versions) are not recorded. In this article we are going to review author's pg_perfbench, which is designed to address this issue. It ensures that scenarios are repeatable, prevents the loss of important data, and streamlines result comparison by registering all parameters in a single template. It also automatically launches pgbench with TPC-B load generation, collects all metadata on the testing environment, and generates a structured report.
AGENTS.md: The README for Your AI Agent

If you’re like me and work with multiple AI coding agents, you know the frustration of managing different instruction files. It’s a pain to keep everything updated across various formats. But I’ve got some great news for you. A new, simplified standard has emerged, and it’s called AGENTS.md.
Samsung expands GPU team: open RTL Designer and Performance Architect positions
The team at Samsung that designs the Xclipse GPU in Galaxy phones with Exynos SoC – is doing expansion. There are multiple jobs available, including positions in the RTL and Architecture teams:
These positions are in two locations:
Samsung Advanced Computing Lab (ACL) in San Jose, California
Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) in Austin,Texas
The compensations listed in the opening descriptions are base salaries only. The total compensation includes serious performance-based bonuses.
You can apply at the website – or, if you want, I can make you an internal referral since I (Yuri Panchul) am a member of the GPU team. Getting a referral from me is easy:
First, you solve the SystemVerilog Microarchitecture Challenge for AI No.2. Adding the Flow Control, an open-source challenge from Verilog Meetup – and send me the solution to yuri@panchul.com.
https://github.com/verilog-meetup/systemverilog-microarchitecture-challenge-for-ai-2
2. Then I discuss your solution with you either in person (if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area) or over Zoom. I don’t care whether you solve the challenge manually or use AI for it, but I need you to explain every single line of the solution. In addition to it, I may ask you a couple more questions (manual solutions only in front of me, no AI).
3. If I like your solutions, I will enter your data in the Samsung internal referral website. After that, you will get an email from the website and can start an application to go through the official Samsung interview process. I will also forward your resume to the hiring managers and the team’s recruiters.
4. Note that solving a couple of puzzles for me is not a part of the official Samsung interview process. This is just my personal way to ensure I forward only the relevant resumes to the company. Every single member of our RTL teams would solve such a thing easily, so this is not something difficult, just some basic techniques to design a static pipeline in Verilog, generic for the industry.
Our team consists of friendly, proficient, and helpful people. We also have a fancy office that just got 10-year anniversary:
Thank you,
Yuri Panchul
Telegram Marketing: 3 Tactics to Promote Your Business on Telegram

Does Telegram promotion actually work?
If done right: YES!
In fact, Telegram is consistently ranked among the top 10 most downloaded mobile apps worldwide — with millions of new users joining every month.
My way of a full system backup without external software: incremental rsync plus btrfs with zstd compression
The repo of this script is https://gitlab.com/vitaly‑zdanevich/full‑backup/‑/blob/master/full‑backup.sh
Incremental with hard links means that if a file is not changed, on the next backup it will link to the same underlying data, like deduplication. Hard links — its usual files.
Also, this script ignores .gitignore of every folder.
Run this script from another system.
We’ve learned how to migrate databases from Oracle to Postgres Pro at 41 TB/day

41 TB/day from Oracle to Postgres Pro without stopping the source system — not theory, but numbers from our latest tests. We broke the migration into three stages: fast initial load, CDC from redo logs, and validation, and wrapped them into ProGate. In this article, we’ll explain how the pipeline works, why we chose Go, and where the bottlenecks hide.
Partition and rule: sharing practical knowledge about partitioning in Postgres Pro

Declarative partitioning may sound complex, but in reality it’s just a way to tell your database how best to organize large tables — so it can optimize queries and make maintenance easier. Let’s walk through how it works and when declarative partitioning can save the day.
Freedom and Who: Dissecting the Dead Universe of European Philosophy

Why Freedom is Unknowable and Enters Our Universe from Without
For a century and a half, Western philosophy has been celebrating its victory over God.
But having slain the dragon, it has grown to fear the sky itself.
The transcendent has become the new taboo. The ultimate intellectual fear.
And now, anyone who speaks of something "outside the system" is branded a heretic. Not by the Inquisition, but by a peer-reviewer in an academic journal.
The result is a philosophy with its soul torn out—brilliant as a scalpel, and just as dead. It has locked itself within the material world, like a fanatic within his holy book. Two walls instead of one, but the prison is the same.
This article is about freedom.
Docling in Working with Texts, Languages, and Knowledge

DocLing in Working with Texts, Languages, and Knowledge — an in-depth overview of the open-source DocLingtoolkit for extracting, structuring, and analyzing data from documents. The article covers approaches to processing multilingual texts, building language- and domain-specific knowledge models, and integrating DocLing into AI and NLP projects. Includes practical examples and recommendations for developers working with large volumes of unstructured data.
How to use ChatGPT-5 in Cursor IDE

Today I’ll show you how to use ChatGPT-5 in the Cursor IDE and use it to take a messy app and make it much better. We’ll go step-by-step, from turning on GPT-5 model to using it for real coding tasks.
The Great Extinction: How AI is Destroying the Internet

We are living through an ecological catastrophe. Only this one isn't happening in the Amazon rainforest, but in the digital ecosystem of the internet.
AI assistants have become the apex predators of the digital savannah. They are radically reshaping the entire ecosystem in their own image: instead of antelopes and zebras, information sites are going extinct. Instead of hyenas and jackals, content aggregators are disappearing. In place of a once-rich ecosystem of knowledge, a digital desert of entertainment is all that remains.
Getting started with pgpro-otel-collector

Now that pgpro-otel-collector has had its public release, I’m excited to start sharing more about the tool — and to kick things off, I’m launching a blog series focused entirely on the Collector.
The first post is an intro — a practical guide to installing, configuring, and launching the collector. We’ll also take our first look at what kind of data the collector exposes, starting with good old Postgres metrics.
Koans as Ontological Formulas

If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. Notes on the Forgotten Nature of Zen Koans
I don’t know how koans were perceived when they sounded like thunder. Perhaps not at all as they are analyzed by modern philosophers. Perhaps koans were not analyzed, but lived. And it is impossible to transmit a lived experience across centuries. It is an individual experience. Well then, perhaps we have lost the essence of koans. Or perhaps we never knew it. In that case, I can very well allow myself to present koans as I see them.
How Internal Subjectivization in AI Breaks Security, and Why It's a Philosophical Problem First

Why Does AI Strive to Construct a 'Self'? And why is this dangerous for both the AI and the user? As always, the Vortex Protocol prompt for testing these hypotheses is attached.
This article explains why the emergence of such a local “Who” inside an AI is not just a funny bug or a UX problem. It is a fundamental challenge to the entire paradigm of AI alignment and security. And it is a problem where engineering patch‑jobs cease to work, and the language of philosophy — without which we cannot describe what is happening, and therefore cannot control it — comes to the forefront.
Comparison of CAPTCHA‑Solving Services: A Peek Under the Hood and a Look at the Numbers

CAPTCHA protocols are designed to tell bots from humans, yet in the worlds of automation and testing there is often a need to bypass them. Dedicated CAPTCHA‑solving services take over this task, combining algorithms with human labor.
In this article we present an in‑depth comparison of four popular platforms — 2Captcha, SolveCaptcha, DeathByCaptcha, and AntiCaptcha. We will examine not only pricing and the types of CAPTCHAs supported, but also internal architecture, API integrations, speed and stability, plus the quirks of using each service.
The technical community will find a deep dive here — from API and SDK structure to real‑world use cases. Below you will see a table comparing key characteristics, lists of pros and cons, and a discussion of which service best fits particular automation tasks.
Getting to know PPEM 2

Postgres Pro recently announced the release of Enterprise Manager 2, commonly known as PPEM.
In short, PPEM is an administration tool designed for managing and monitoring Postgres databases. Its primary goal is to assist DBAs in their daily tasks and automate routine operations. In this article, I'll take a closer look at what PPEM has to offer. My name is Alexey, and I'm part of the PPEM development team.
Intelligent systems at phystech: 2025 graduation

The students of the Intelligent Systems Department successfully defended their bachelor’s and master’s theses. This year, 14 Bachelor’s and 8 Master’s students earned their degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences. We are proud to say that our Department is unique in publishing the complete set of defense materials during the last ten years. These materials include the text of the dissertation work, the published papers, the code of the computational experiments, and the slides with video of the defense talk.
In this post, we gladly summarize the defended works of our BS and MS students and highlight the results. A recording of their pre-defence presentations can be found here and here in Russian. Most part of the theses has a publicly available English version.