Bookmarks
Celebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin's Aesthetics
https://collegetowns.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-ofHow to do distributed locking — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.htmlThe Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.htmlAn Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/engineers-checklist-logging-best-practicesReverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)
https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860769Simultaneously save+copy screenshots on the Mac
https://justin.searls.co/posts/simultaneously-save-and-copy-screenshots-on-the-mac/The Far Side Comic Strip by Gary Larson - Official Website | TheFarSide.com
https://www.thefarside.com/How to hit “reset” when in a slump – Chuck's Notes
https://notes.cagrimmett.com/how-to-hit-reset-when-in-a-slump/Mars After Midnight
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/261758/mars-after-midnightGoogle DeepMind Introduces AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-Level Artificial Intelligence System for Geometry
https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/01/21/google-deepmind-introduces-alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-artificial-intelligence-system-for-geometry/Free open source icons, illustrations, emojis and graphics - Iconduck
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://iconduck.com/New in PostgreSQL 16: Bi-Directional Logical Replication - Highgo Software Inc.
https://www.highgo.ca/2023/12/18/new-in-postgresql-16-bi-directional-logical-replication/Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship | Hacker News
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666340"Lessons from building Github code search" by Luke Francl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqZA_KmygKwGitHub - jdx/rtx: Runtime Executor (asdf-plugin compatible)
https://github.com/jdx/rtxI've been using RTX for a couple of personal projects recently — it's looking pretty promising and I might give it a go with some work prjects, given that it can drop in in place of asdf
My Twitch Live Coding Setup – Suz Hinton – Medium
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2516672fb21Lessons Learned from Running Debezium with PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
https://debezium.io/blog/2020/02/25/lessons-learned-running-debezium-with-postgresql-on-rds/Ways to capture changes in Postgres | Hacker News
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610899Bottleneck #04: Cost Efficiency
https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/04-costs.html#ReducePhaseMy Approach to Building Large Technical Projects
https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projectsRelational Database Migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - Canva Engineering Blog
https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/dms-aws-rds-migration/The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://kottke.org/23/05/the-fastest-maze-solving-competition-on-earththis was a pretty enthralling watch
How I write this blog on my iPhone, from a train - Alin Panaitiu
https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog%20on%20my%20iPhone%20in%20a%20trainZen and the Art of Cable Management
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://techandcoffee.com/zen-and-the-art-of-cable-managementLaying the Cultural and Technical Foundation for Big Rails by Alex Evanczuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9S0qiGkAQYAs applications built on Rails get larger and larger, and more and more engineers work in the same monolith, our community needs to think more about what sort of tooling and architectural changes will help us continue to scale. This talk shares ideas around a toolchain, and more importantly, the social and cultural programs needed to support that toolchain, that can be used to help engineers in an ever-growing Rails codebase continue to have high velocity, manage their complexity, and claim ownership over their own business subdomains.
Chronophoto
http://chronophoto.app/Guess the year a photo was taken. A contender for 1-more-round-itis right up there with Civilisation
Polycount | Long running lowpoly thread
https://polycount.com/discussion/41232/lowpoly-or-the-optimisation-appreciation-organisationThere's something about this charicature-like artform that keeps me coming back to this almost 2-decade long thread.