0031: 2022, systems distributed, random ids, deleting tombstones, disorderly compaction, juggling blocks, code review woes, holiday shutdown, searching for implementors, everything is copy, sharing the page cache after fysncgate, 9/10 climbers, rise and fall of peer review, real- … | Continue reading
0030: lsm perf, colorblind concurrency, tracing, evacuating preimp, reading, fixing my shoulders Published 2022-12-05 Things I've been doing in November: handmade seattle! at tigerbeetle hunting performance bugs in the lsm tree adding tracing evacuating preimp musing colorblind c … | Continue reading
0029: san francisco, seattle, tigerbeetle, studying, links Published 2022-11-04 I'll be in San Francisco Nov 6-11, and in Seattle for Handmade Nov 15-19. tigerbeetle In October I joined the database team at TigerBeetle. Like most of my major life decisions, this was made somewhat … | Continue reading
0028: HYTRADBOI jam, sqllogictest in a week, how safe is zig again, rr on alder lake, google maps jank, links Published 2022-10-05 HYTRADBOI jam The jam results are now up at hytradboi.com/jam. I haven't had a chance to read through all of them yet but it looks like there were so … | Continue reading
0027.1: hytradboi jam Published 2022-08-31 A minor update that can't wait until the end of the month: Have you tried rubbing a database on it: The Jam An upcoming coding jam with the same theme as the HYTRADBOI conference: Turning a data-centric lens onto familiar problems to yie … | Continue reading
0027: preimp, framework, dotfiles and backups, links Published 2022-08-28 I got back to work Aug 8. The rest of the month has been blessedly uneventful. preimp I got as far as I could with the clj version. The main obstacle is provenance. The main feedback from the essay was that … | Continue reading
0026: break, preimp essay, focus + clojure, zed experiments, decorrelation and nested relations, bunny, sqlite mode, reading, links Published 2022-07-26 break Nobody could come to our covid-era wedding, so instead we have a wave of family and friends visiting for our first annive … | Continue reading
0025: preimp, focus + mach, emergent ventures, clockwork labs, success, hytradboi ideas, zig debugging tips, dev-setup.sh, clojurescript blues, analogies for end-user programming, half-arsed workflows, javascript vs serialization, links Published 2022-06-24 Preimp I've made a lot … | Continue reading