Articles by stopachka
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Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)

2

Counter-Strike Bench: GPT 5.3 Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6 (instantdb.com)

1

What Is ChatGPT Doing? (vibediary.dev)

3

GPT 5.2 on the Counter-Strike Benchmark (instantdb.com)

1

I miss the old Qasar, not the new Qasar (qy.co)

40

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike (instantdb.com)

7

How count-min sketches work – frequencies, but without the actual data (instantdb.com)

1

Building a CMS without programming experience (vibediary.dev)

21

Core.async and Virtual Threads (clojure.org)

1

Founding Firebase with James Tamplin [video] (instantdb.com)

37

Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database (manyminiapps.com)

1

High Variance Management (2023) (sbensu.com)

3

iPhone Dumbphone (stopa.io)

1

Resist – Open-Source extension that lets you control your Twitter Feed (bipinsuresh.info)

1

Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror (2017) (danwang.co)

14

GPT 5 vs. Opus 4.1 for Vibe-Coded Apps (instantdb.com)

60

How and where will agents ship software? (instantdb.com)

2

The Psychological Significance of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi (abesorock.substack.com)

2

What if useState was your back end? (expo.dev)

2

Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong (2024) (zdimension.fr)

1

When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro (tonsky.me)

4

The Inner Ring – C.S Lewis [pdf] (noorsiddiqui.com)

3

Sync Engines Are the Future (instantdb.com)

2

Sync Engines Are the Future (instantdb.com)

1

What Are Sync Engines? (adamnyberg.se)

58

A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime (instantdb.com)

2

Suchir Balaji: In the long run, only the fundamentals matter (docs.google.com)

16

Building a Sync Engine in Clojure [video] (youtube.com)

1

Building a Sync Engine in Clojure [video] (youtube.com)

3

Mediocrity can be a sign of excellence, and other stories (predr.ag)

1

A Managerial View of the Multics System Development (1979) (multicians.org)

1

Timeline of Computer History (computerhistory.org)

145

We need visual programming. No, not like that (sbensu.com)

1

Graph-Based Ceramics (alexreichert.com)

2

Fugue: A Basic List CRDT (mattweidner.com)

1

Designing for Support Teams (sbensu.com)

1

Humble Chronicles: Managing State with VDOM (tonsky.me)

13

Datalog in 100 lines of JavaScript (2022) (instantdb.com)

3

Timeouts and Cancellation for Humans (2018) (vorpus.org)

1

The Error Model (2016) (joeduffyblog.com)

2

Adobe Systems – The Founders' Perspective (2002) [video] (youtube.com)

3

Apple: My Key to Success (2014) (mitchellh.com)

13

Structured Procrastination (structuredprocrastination.com)

1

B+ Trees Visualization (dichchankinh.com)

1

Database-agnostic querying is unavoidable at scale (kensho.com)

1

Toward Fearless Cargo Update

47

A Graph-Based Firebase

37

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]