Engineering @ Stripe. Ex-Heroku. Occasional writer. Themes: web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.

San Francisco
Joined March 2009
After a lengthy battle, my SEO’s been usurped by an IKEA hangar rail for the garage. (Looks pretty nice actually, might get one.) Do I have any chance of taking it back, or is this the end.
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Finally finishing S4 Mr. Robot. Felt less anxiety from the culminating plot than from the idea of hacking via smartphone. Between autocorrect, no tab button, and half your shell symbols buried in keyboard menus two layers deep, this is the show’s most dystopian concept, by far.
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Happy 2021! A few pretty photos of the Rockies from the other day. Just gorgeous — lots of green, but now with a light layer of snow.
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Big Sur a few weeks in: Some things are worse (contrast, Finder), many things are different (fonts, menus), but nothing is _better_. Imagine if a big new macOS version introduced new keyboard shortcuts, better multi-tasking, or the like. Innovation in desktop OSes isn’t done.
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Go 1.16 beta1 for ARM-based Macs is a life saver so far. Ran into all kinds of problems with failures and zombie processes with 1.15 under Rosetta. golang.org/dl/
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My closet is indexed on `(season, apparel_type, style, color) WHERE defunct IS FALSE`. (And given half of those are `(summer, t-shirt, v-neck, black)`, de-duped on the backend ... ;)
Tell me you’re a Postgres fan without telling me you’re a Postgres fan
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Going through old tweets, found this 10yo ad for The Camera Store in Calgary. One minute long, no spoken words, pure inspiration. Best enjoyed by photography nerds. (The ease/art of videography has advanced since then, but this is da Vinci for its time.) invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=awq90APE…
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Life on WaniKani: wake up, underwater, to inbox(hundreds) every morning. 270 kanji in. Last week, from first principles, found that "ichiban" (一番) literally means "number one". Learned that word when I was five, and for the last 30 years thought it meant “noodles”.
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After local businesses spent $10,000s they didn't have on outdoor infrastructure, city and state will now force a new, indefinite closure. It’s been a long time coming, but that’s it — the death knell. Ten years from now, I’ll be able to describe the final days of San Francisco.
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On the reasons why RDMSes trend toward glorified key/value stores at scale, and ideas to stop it —
Brandur Leach (@brandur): Feature Casualties of Large Databases postgr.es/p/4Zc
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