Building Realtime @neondatabase & @databricks. Prev co-founder @ElectricSQL (acquired by Databricks). Started https://xitter.cf/t.co/pDO5k5Epeu, co-creator of @tan_stack DB.

London UK
Joined May 2007
My overriding thought going into 2026: Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are. Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it. Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.
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Me whenever we’re not using our own stuff on Neon yet
We shipped a new search experience for the Neon docs, built entirely on Neon primitives. Neon docs search now uses our Lakebase Search extensions, is served by a Neon Function, and uses Neon AI Gateway for embeddings and reranking! Read more here: neon.com/blog/neon-docs-sear…
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So who's working on doing for Rust, what tsrs has done for TypeScrpt? Who's burning AI tokens to make Rust compilation really fast!?
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Neon has an AI gateway. TanStack supports it. Go use it 🔥
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My first ship at Neon is live 🟢 The official @neondatabase AI Gateway adapter for @tan_stack AI. Huge thanks to @AlemTuzlak for an awesome collaboration on this one. TanStack team is amazing! tanstack.com/ai/latest/docs/…
I joined @neondatabase 💚 I'll be doing DX and leading open source at Neon. Also I guess I'm their mascot now. 😂 Orcs are green. Neon is green. It was meant to be. 🟢 I love Neon, and I love the team even more. This move just made sense. The channel stays OrcDev. Same orc. Same Horde. Follow along. Things are about to get interesting 👀
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Pop quiz, what's this graph showing?
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Yes, it's CVEs. We have a rough time ahead! xitter.cf/samwillis/status/21133…
If you work in tech, this is the most significant graph you should be aware of. We've seen the effect of this in the last two days (hug-ops to those fighting the hacks right now), but we can only assume it's going to continue to accelerate. We have a rough year ahead!
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If you work in tech, this is the most significant graph you should be aware of. We've seen the effect of this in the last two days (hug-ops to those fighting the hacks right now), but we can only assume it's going to continue to accelerate. We have a rough year ahead!
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It's super easy to take your existing SQL queries in Next.js and make them update *live* with @neondatabase Realtime! It's only a few new lines of code 🤯
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Shipping so fast! Love the excitement around it 🥳
Reactive live queries straight from Postgres to your mobile app! The @neondatabase Realtime client now supports React Native and @expo 🎉🚀
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It's super easy to take your existing SQL queries in Next.js and make them update *live* with @neondatabase Realtime! It's only a few new lines of code 🤯
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This is all the code it takes:
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It's official. My new chapter. 🟢⚔️
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@neondatabase Realtime v0.1.2 now supports React Native! 🎉 One todo app, running on native and web. Make a change in either and watch it sync to the other 👇
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Reactive live queries straight from Postgres to your mobile app! The @neondatabase Realtime client now supports React Native and @expo 🎉🚀
Replying to @neondatabase
@neondatabase Realtime v0.1.2 now supports React Native! 🎉 One todo app, running on native and web. Make a change in either and watch it sync to the other 👇
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Reactive live queries straight from Postgres to your mobile app! The @neondatabase Realtime client now supports React Native and @expo 🎉🚀
Replying to @neondatabase
@neondatabase Realtime v0.1.2 now supports React Native! 🎉 One todo app, running on native and web. Make a change in either and watch it sync to the other 👇
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Replying to @andrelandgraf
I love neon realtime so much!!
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There is a bunch of "TypeScript compiled to native" projects about, but this is the OG and the one to watch! Oh, and it's not just TypeScript, it's all of JavaScript!
in the next version of Porffor, Test262 compliance leaps to 96%! this marks a milestone where Node compat and performance finally become major blockers
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This is such an awsome overview of @neondatabase Realtime, and how you can build advanced multi-user/agent systems on it with @mastra. Perfect pairing! 🚀🥳
Presenting Livebase, a demo app showing how to build collaborative human <> agent systems on a @neondatabase + @mastra stack.
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Build agents with real-time data:
Presenting Livebase, a demo app showing how to build collaborative human <> agent systems on a @neondatabase + @mastra stack.
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Want your UI to automatically update when your data changes? Just write to Postgres. Neon Realtime composes beautifully with Mastra 🫶
Presenting Livebase, a demo app showing how to build collaborative human <> agent systems on a @neondatabase + @mastra stack.
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