There seems to be a great move going on; you can also find me here

This is incredibly powerful. Even doing just one or two items from the list will improve your codebase immensely. I've yet to experience DST first hand, but I long for the day that I have an excuse to implement it!

Okay.. I had never thought there'd be value in _pretending_ that an index exists. This is a pretty interesting idea!

Negative space in design is one of the most important aspects that you need to take care of. TigerBeetle talks about this explicitly in their TigerStyle document - "The golden rule of assertions is to assert the positive space that you do expect AND to assert the negative space

Need to explain reinforcement learning to non-technical people? Show them this video: youtube.com/watch?v=NUl6Qi… It uses the racing game Trackmania to give an *excellent* intuition for how it works. Such a great video Yosh!

I had a once-in-very-rarely discussion today: blog.vbang.dk/2025/02/17/on-…

in short, there's never been a better time to go really hard down a path, learn difficult things, put in the time and effort required to do exceptional work and in the long run you'll benefit from new tools amplifying your skills

All of this talk about 10x developers; I never realized this is what people meant!

Follow Phil's advice: subscribe The talks are awesome so far!

any database is just a WAL with indexes then it’s down to tradeoffs in guarantees, storage and indexes

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Tired of software relicensing and BSL, but don't know how to navigate it? Joran Dirk Greef has a very interesting take on it. youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kzYl… This is preaching to the choir, but I'm sure there's a great podcast episode here, nudge nudge Bryan Cantrill Adam Leventhal

God, I love Jeff Dickey's mise. I'm reading Thorsten Ball's newsletter which convinced me to try jujutsu (again), and thought to myself "you got me, let's try again" Just `mise use jujutsu` later and it's there, ready for me to play around with. Why isn't more software like this?

I'm hoping to find the time to write a series of posts over the summer on tools that I love. Here's the first one which I fell in love with just 3 months ago: mise blog.vbang.dk/2025/06/29/too…

Okay, this is a first 🙈

Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: dbos.dev/webcast-2025-i…