Articles by tosh
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Just Use Postgres for Everything (amazingcto.com)

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BigQuery: Partition and cluster your data for optimal performance (2020) (cloud.google.com)

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AnyBlox (github.com/anyblox)

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What Goes Around Comes Around and Around (2024) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

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Apache Celeborn: elastic high-performance service for shuffle and spilled data (github.com/apache)

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GoogleSQL (cloud.google.com)

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Bucketing optimization in SQL to deal with skewed data (BigQuery example) (smallbigdata.substack.com)

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DuckDB: UI Extension (duckdb.org)

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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)

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Apache Paimon is a lake format that enables building a Realtime Lakehouse (github.com/apache)

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Pi: There are many coding agents, but this one is mine (buildwithpi.ai)

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Thumby, a Tiny Playable Keychain (thumby.us)

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JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 (github.com/juicedata)

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Gas Town (github.com/steveyegge)

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Vector Similarity Search in DuckDB (2024) (duckdb.org)

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Cardputer uLisp Machine (2024) (ulisp.com)

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Napa: Powering Scalable Data Warehousing with Robust Query Performance at Google (research.google)

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LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library (github.com/google)

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The Mature Optimization Handbook (bueno.org)

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Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets (2010) (research.google)

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Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com)

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Building an Observability Solution with ClickHouse – Part 1 – Logs (2023) (clickhouse.com)

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GTFOBins (gtfobins.github.io)

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GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in the Responses API (twitter.com/openaidevs)

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Firebase Data Connect: Build secure, scalable apps on PostgreSQL (firebase.google.com)

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Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade (theverge.com)

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Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine (github.com/apache)

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3x-9x Faster Apache Parquet Footer Metadata Using a Custom Thrift Parser in Rust (apache.org)

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Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (2019) (stripe.com)

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All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" (2024) (isburmistrov.substack.com)

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Debunking the 'Three Pillars of Observability' Myth (2021) (softwareengineeringdaily.com)

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Me and the Machine (mitsuhiko.github.io)

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Using Canonical Log Lines for Online Visibility (2016) (brandur.org)

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logfmt (2013) (brandur.org)

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Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility (amazon.com)

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The Day You Became a Better Writer (The Dilbert Blog 2007) (archive.org)

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Circular Buffer (wikipedia.org)

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We Saved 70% CPU and 60% Memory in Refinery's Go Code (honeycomb.io)

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Observability cost drivers and levers of control (honeycomb.io)

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ClickHouse on Kubernetes: Anthropic on Air-Gapped Deployment [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple Says 'Pixelmator' App on iOS Will No Longer Receive Updates (macrumors.com)

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MiniJinja is a powerful but minimal dependency template engine for Rust (github.com/mitsuhiko)

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Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline (github.com/vectordotdev)

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Protocol, libraries for sending, receiving OpenTelemetry data using Apache Arrow (github.com/open-telemetry)

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Dilbert Principle (wikipedia.org)

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Apple Introduces New 'Creator Studio' Bundle of Apps for $129 per Year (macrumors.com)

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How dangerous are high-cardinality labels in Prometheus? (stackoverflow.com)

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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions (opentelemetry.io)

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Lightweight Compression in DuckDB (2022) (duckdb.org)

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Modern OLAP Database System Design with FDAP [video] (youtube.com)

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Tokenized Tokens (fly.io)

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Google Gemini Partnership with Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp (macrumors.com)

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Framework: Memory and Storage Pricing Updates (frame.work)

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Borg or Restic? (stickleback.dk)

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I replaced my Raspberry Pi 5 with a no-name Amazon mini desktop (arstechnica.com)

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Apple Opposes India's Plan to Access iOS Source Code (macrumors.com)

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Rustic: fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust (github.com/rustic-rs)

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Comparison of incremental backup apps (Borg, Kopia, Restic,) (archlinux.org)

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Borg 2.x: Important Notes (borgbackup.readthedocs.io)

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Cuckoo Hashing (wikipedia.org)

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Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas (PyCon 2017) [video] (youtube.com)

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Wcurl: A simple wrapper around curl to easily download files (github.com/curl)

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Uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (github.com/uutils)

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Observability with ClickHouse (2023) (boristane.com)

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MSBuildStructuredLog: A Logger for MSBuild (github.com/kirillosenkov)

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Observability wide events 101 (2024) (boristane.com)

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Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management (github.com/logseq)

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Loki: Like Prometheus, but for Logs (github.com/grafana)

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My iPad's Raspberry Pi Sidecar (schwarztech.net)

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Turbodbc: Python module to access relational databases via ODBC (github.com/blue-yonder)

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Opus 4.5 is now free in Amp, up to $10 in credits per day, ad-supported (twitter.com/beyang)

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htmx Preload Extension (htmx.org)

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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075 (2024) (jepsen.io)

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Orient Express Routes (wikipedia.org)

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Apple's John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook's Successor as CEO (nytimes.com)

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Cloudflare: /cdn-cgi/ Endpoint (cloudflare.com)

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EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks (politico.eu)

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Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure (2010) (research.google)

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Operational Historian (wikipedia.org)

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Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup (2024) (boristane.com)

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Sieve: An Efficient Turn-Key Eviction Algorithm for Web Caches (cachemon.github.io)

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lru-rs: An implementation of a LRU cache (github.com/jeromefroe)

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iOS 26 Shows Unusually Slow Adoption Months After Release (macrumors.com)

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Dave Cutler: Windows Longhorn and the Worst Code I've Ever Seen [video] (youtube.com)

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Teach Yourself Computer Science (teachyourselfcs.com)

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Visual Studio Code: December 2025 (version 1.108) (visualstudio.com)

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Watlings: Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs (github.com/emnudge)

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A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent (ampcode.com)

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The Frontier Is Now Free (ampcode.com)

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Apple Loses Safari Lead Designer to the Browser Company (macrumors.com)

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Adam's Morning Walk: We had six months left (transistor.fm)

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The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible (2021) (world.hey.com)

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Twinkle Star Sprites (hardcoregaming101.net)

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Zed: Dev Containers (zed.dev)

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Hetzner: Measuring the performance of the new gen server types (reddit.com)

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Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML (github.com/bigskysoftware)

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No Backup, No Cry (world.hey.com)

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The O'Saasy License (world.hey.com)

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The Ruff Linter (astral.sh)

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Zed: How Worktree Trust Works (zed.dev)