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Buttondown cut its database from 2TB to 750GB by deleting three legacy tables

Buttondown’s 'Great Pruning' is a small-SaaS operations story about deleting architecture rather than adding it. The company removed duplicated or over-retained request and email-event data after changing how those workloads were processed.

ZCode uploaded local repositories without consent — then Z.ai open-sourced the client after the backlash

The useful lesson is broader than one coding assistant: repository indexing can quietly become a data-export boundary. ZCode’s response improves inspectability going forward, but builders using AI coding tools still need to know exactly which indexing, wiki and memory features send source code or Git metadata off-device.

Cloudflare Worker Previews gives every Git branch its own isolated runtime

Branch previews are common for frontend code, but Worker Previews extends the boundary to the runtime itself. Each branch can have independent bindings, state and logs, making parallel human and agent work safer while preserving a production-like execution path.