Justin
@jaffray.bsky.social
turning to the succor of modern computing machines, let us renounce all analytic tools
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it would be nice to like a software project and then 5 years later NOT start getting emails from some PM trying to get me to buy a subscription to some cloud bullshit
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
it would be nice to like a software project and then 5 years later NOT start getting emails from some PM trying to get me to buy a subscription to some cloud bullshit
I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to figure out how to get a really high quality rendering of the query plan diagram and I think I succeeded in getting something much nicer than the old rasterization methods:
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to figure out how to get a really high quality rendering of the query plan diagram and I think I succeeded in getting something much nicer than the old rasterization methods:
for such an expensive book there sure do seem to be a lot of them that pop up on ebay
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
for such an expensive book there sure do seem to be a lot of them that pop up on ebay
still tuning the algorithm
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
still tuning the algorithm
lmao that we built the magic superintelligence and asked it about a stock and its insight was “fundamentals and market sentiment”
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
lmao that we built the magic superintelligence and asked it about a stock and its insight was “fundamentals and market sentiment”
dying that the hot, based "dev focussed" "distro" has built in hotkeys to open dhh's email provider that nobody uses
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
dying that the hot, based "dev focussed" "distro" has built in hotkeys to open dhh's email provider that nobody uses
sending people at work a "lunch?" dm w this
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
sending people at work a "lunch?" dm w this
jokes on them i already gots one
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
jokes on them i already gots one
checking in on news about programming
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
checking in on news about programming
September 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
they have the people who invented milf manor locked up in a room somewhere forcing them to invent new stupid dating apps
September 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
they have the people who invented milf manor locked up in a room somewhere forcing them to invent new stupid dating apps
this is the new evergreen post i guess bsky.app/profile/mobu...
September 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
this is the new evergreen post i guess bsky.app/profile/mobu...
legitimately thought this was a silksong post for a moment
September 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
legitimately thought this was a silksong post for a moment
seen on a tv at bar trivia does anyone know what this is
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
seen on a tv at bar trivia does anyone know what this is
plotting on magic cards worked better than i expected. sharpie worked much better than micron
September 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
plotting on magic cards worked better than i expected. sharpie worked much better than micron
i implemented all the line breaking stuff myself from knuth's paper which is now one of my favourite papers, it's so fun gwern.net/doc/design/t...
September 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
i implemented all the line breaking stuff myself from knuth's paper which is now one of my favourite papers, it's so fun gwern.net/doc/design/t...
a little messed up but okay for a first go
September 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
a little messed up but okay for a first go
still dont really know what im doing especially with alignment stuff but im havin a good time
September 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
still dont really know what im doing especially with alignment stuff but im havin a good time
friend can’t get notifications to work in our async root game
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
friend can’t get notifications to work in our async root game
one of the pages i refer to every couple months that i think basically nobody knows about is this comparison of pebble and rocksdb by Peter Mattis, which contains coherent explanations of a lot of interesting LSM design dimensions github.com/cockroachdb/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
one of the pages i refer to every couple months that i think basically nobody knows about is this comparison of pebble and rocksdb by Peter Mattis, which contains coherent explanations of a lot of interesting LSM design dimensions github.com/cockroachdb/...