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Even More Batteries Included with Emacs
Where I collect notes. Sometimes you have to write to be able to think.
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SQL to ER Diagram — Free Online ERD Generator from SQL
SQL to ER diagram: paste your SQL schema (CREATE TABLE statements) and instantly generate a clean, interactive ER diagram (ERD) online. Convert SQL to a diagram free — open source, runs entirely in your browser, no signup, nothing uploaded.
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No, everyone is not using AI for everything.
People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether.
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Deconstructing Datalog
In September 2022, after two rounds of revisions, I submitted the final version of my PhD dissertation, Deconstructing Datalog. Datalog is a logic programming language from the ’80s that augments relational algebra with recursive queries. It has both simple...
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Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL
This has results for modern Postgres and MySQL using write-heavy tests from sysbench and a large server. I think there are regressions in Po...
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Simplifying Weak Reference Processing in ZGC - Inside.java
What are GC barriers and how do they relate to ahead-of-time compilation? This blog post explores the intersection of HotSpot's GCs and compilers through the lense of implementing GC-agnostic load barriers at the assembly level, and gives key insights on...
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Point Cloud Sound for irregular shaped audio sources
In video game development, we’re used to sound coming from single positions in space, but how do we handle sound coming from an irregular sh...
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Introducing pkgcli: A nicer command-line interface for PackageKit – Ximions Blog
For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for...
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Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered