CathalMullan
Re:Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:36PM (#46166227)
There are plans to experiment with language level comptime support too: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148820
Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book
on Sunday November 16, 2025 @04:31PM (#45948590)
Pretty clear it's all AI. The @zigbook account only has 1 activity prior to publishing this repo, and that's an issue where they mention "ai has made me too lazy": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272725
Re:Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use?
on Friday May 30, 2025 @10:02AM (#44136336)
There's an experimental feature which separates storage and compute.
Re:Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:55AM (#42182900)
There's also 'poop', which is a nice middle-ground between 'hyperfine' and 'perf'.
https://github.com/andrewrk/poop
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Foreign Key Constraints Support
Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust
Axum 0.7.0
Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (Oct 2023)
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Re:Why you should probably be using SQLite
on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:44AM (#38038344)
Feels like NewSQL DBs (CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, TiDB, etc.) may hit the sweet spot in regards to ease of deployment, and scalability.
Relatively easy to get started with a 'production-grade' cluster.
And they typically don't require any external load balancers, connection poolers, etc.
I'd like to think once NewSQL DBs mature, we'll see a shift away from using/abusing SQLite for these kinds of use cases.
Re:Why you should probably be using SQLite
on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:01AM (#38037853)
Related article from the same author: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/i-migrated-from-a-postgres-clust...
Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do a...
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:54PM (#38028351)
A word of warning when it comes to Vultr. While they are listed as a member of the "Bandwidth Alliance", they don't discount egress automatically. You need to request the discount from support.
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Re:The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt(2021)
on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:40PM (#37537973)
> These are expensive servers, crossing into six digits, but not $200k.
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Re:Review of Hetzner ARM64 Servers and Experience of WebP Cloud Servic...
on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:02PM (#36373371)
CAX11 looks like a great deal, especially with IPv4 disabled.
Re:Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (2006)
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:20AM (#36308479)
You can avoid creating .DS_Store files on network and USB volumes like so.
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
Re:Cases where full scans are better than indexes
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @02:00PM (#36073914)
Lately, I've been investigating 'serverless' databases (PlanetScale, Turso) that charge based on the number of rows read/scanned.
As a result, instead of just relying on the perceived performance of a query, I've started monitoring the number of rows scanned, which has emphasized the importance of indexes to me.
Granted, the cost per rows read is minuscule (PlanetScale charges $1 per billion!), but it's still something I keep in mind.
Re:The Twitter Algorithm
on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:10PM (#35391896)
Only used for metrics, apparently. [0]
/**
* These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are
* serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users.
* This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes
* that negatively impacts one group over others.
*/
[0]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
Re:Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust
on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:49PM (#35025677)
The Rust re-write is being worked on in a separate repo: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core
Re:yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
on Saturday February 04, 2023 @03:11PM (#34657724)
Another tool in this space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files.
Re:Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language
on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:14AM (#34053766)
Since Wing compiles to Terraform, you should be able to manually run Infracost (https://www.infracost.io) to get an idea of costs.
Having that capability baked into the language/compiler would be a great addition.