From XAMPP to Ephemeral Postgres: Where “Works on My Machine” Has Led Us

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 27 Feb 2025, 00:51 UTC

“It works on my machine” is now a trope—a horror story to tell young developers (or AI coding models) about what it was like to build without today’s stack. Like all clichés, it was once true. Hodgepodge local installs, no containers, and massive environment drift were challenges...

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• T1From XAMPP to Ephemeral Postgres: Where “Works on My Machine” Has Led UsDatabricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale27 Feb 2025, 00:51