Articles by tosh
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Superfund (wikipedia.org)

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High Throughput Compression of Double-Precision Floating-Point Data (2007) [pdf] (txstate.edu)

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ClickHouse: Specialized Codecs (clickhouse.com)

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VS Code: Broken rendering on macOS after app resumed from idle state (github.com/microsoft)

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Apple is burying the Time Capsule, but how to replace it? (sixcolors.com)

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Picking up the missing pieces of Apple's Creator Studio (sixcolors.com)

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Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like (macstories.net)

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macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view (lapcatsoftware.com)

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TranslateGemma: A new family of open translation models (blog.google)

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Enable Smoother 120Hz Browsing in Safari (macrumors.com)

1

Dyalog and AI [video] (youtube.com)

1

ngn/k (codeberg.org/ngn)

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Raising An Agent (Episode 9) [video] (youtube.com)

3

In addition to Clojure, what other 2 languages are worth learning (2021) (clojureverse.org)

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Garbage Collection Can Be Faster Than Stack Allocation (1986) [pdf] (princeton.edu)

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In Praise of APL (1977) (jsoftware.com)

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Farmer to Banker (twitter.com/alfred_lin)

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illumos (illumos.org)

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VS Code extension for Claude Code is now generally available (twitter.com/claudeai)

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Debug example build failures with Git bisect (ampcode.com)

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Transit: A Data Interchange Format (github.com/cognitect)

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Cloudflare Sandbox SDK (cloudflare.com)

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Blake (wikipedia.org)

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Stargate Community (openai.com)

1

A mountain tour of kdb+ and q (kx.com)

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k crash course (github.com/kparc)

1

Optimizing ClickHouse with Schemas and Codecs (2022) (clickhouse.com)

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Flet: Build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python (github.com/flet-dev)

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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism (2017) (brandur.org)

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Unsloth: GLM-4.7-Flash (unsloth.ai)

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Amazon Ion (amazon-ion.github.io)

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OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code (2024) (jeremymorrell.dev)

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If the future of e-readers is getting weird, I'm here for it (sixcolors.com)

2

The Lost Art of Structure Packing (catb.org)

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Going Founder Mode on Cancer (centuryofbio.com)

2

Fast Static Symbol Table (FSST): efficient random-access string compression (github.com/cwida)

2

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

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Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store (2021) (honeycomb.io)

1

Choropleth Map (wikipedia.org)

2

qsv: Fast Data-Wrangling Toolkit (github.com/dathere)

2

Fallacies of Distributed Computing (wikipedia.org)

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Kdb+ (Time Series Database Lectures #4 Fintan Quill 2017) [video] (youtube.com)

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Frawk: An efficient Awk-like language in Rust (github.com/ezrosent)

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Nushell: Dataframes (nushell.sh)

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Speed up the loop operation in R (2010) (stackoverflow.com)

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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (Over Time) (colin-scott.github.io)

3

Why Use Make (2013) (ocks.org)

2

Data Science at the Command Line (jeroenjanssens.com)

3

Taco Bell Programming (2010) (widgetsandshit.com)

2

The Lost Art of Structure Packing (catb.org)

1

Making Time for Cron Triggers (2020) (cloudflare.com)

1

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio (daringfireball.net)

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Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data (2024) (motherduck.com)

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Scalability But at what COST? (2015) [pdf] (usenix.org)

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ClickHouse vs. StarRocks vs. Presto vs. Trino vs. Apache Spark (onehouse.ai)

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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com)

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Amazon EC2 U7i instances (up to 32 TiB RAM) (amazon.com)

2

Indirection (wikipedia.org)

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The Web's Grain (2015) (frankchimero.com)

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Beyond the Machine (frankchimero.com)

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DuckDB: Larger-Than-Memory Workloads (duckdb.org)

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Darwin Core (wikipedia.org)

2

I Used Claude to Build a Transcription Bot That Learns from Its Mistakes (macstories.net)

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BAML is a domain-specific language to generate structured outputs from LLMs (boundaryml.com)

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Dramatiq: A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3 (github.com/bogdanp)

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LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review (wired.com)

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Brazil's Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books (theguardian.com)

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clickhouse-local (clickhouse.com)

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Kusto Query Language (github.com/microsoft)

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DuckDB's CSV Reader and the Pollock Robustness Benchmark (duckdb.org)

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Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly (thenewstack.io)

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ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide (openai.com)

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Writes in DuckDB-Iceberg (duckdb.org)

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Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store (2021) (honeycomb.io)

3

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 – 2026 (emojipedia.org)

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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)

1

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)

1

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)

1

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)