Scattered Thoughts2026-02-17T00:00:00+00:00Jamie Brandonhttps://www.scattered-thoughts.net/atom.xml0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links2026-02-17T00:00:00+00:002026-02-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0057/20252026-02-17T00:00:00+00:002026-02-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2025/0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, books2025-12-06T00:00:00+00:002025-12-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0056/0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff2025-11-01T00:00:00+00:002025-11-01T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0055/SQL needed structure2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:002025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/sql-needed-structure/0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, books2025-09-02T00:00:00+00:002025-09-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0054/Everyone's got one2025-08-05T00:00:00+00:002025-08-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/everyones-got-one/Go allocation probe2025-07-18T00:00:00+00:002025-07-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/go-allocation-probe/Store tags after payloads2025-07-13T00:00:00+00:002025-07-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/store-tags-after-payloads/0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, books2025-05-31T00:00:00+00:002025-05-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0053/A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation2025-04-04T00:00:00+00:002025-04-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/a-rough-survey-of-compilation-recompilation-and-compile-time-evaluation/0052: hytradboi videos and post-mortem, zest repo, no internet, on social media, my product is my garden, datafusion and clickhouse jits, books2025-03-14T00:00:00+00:002025-03-14T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0052/HYTRADBOI 2025 postmortem2025-03-03T00:00:00+00:002025-03-03T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025-postmortem/Other kinds of talks2025-02-24T00:00:00+00:002025-02-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/other-kinds-of-talks/0051: hytradboi program and tickets, query compilers, decorrelation encore, books, misc2025-02-13T00:00:00+00:002025-02-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0051/HYTRADBOI 2025 program and tickets2025-01-31T00:00:00+00:002025-01-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025-program-and-tickets/The missing tier for query compilers2025-01-12T00:00:00+00:002025-01-12T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-missing-tier-for-query-compilers/0050: smolderingly fast b-trees, serious fun, what is the point of an online conference, it's ok to be afraid, HYTRADBOI progress, no other progress, vancouver.systems, not the incentives, llm garbage, books2024-11-25T00:00:00+00:002024-11-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0050/It's ok to be afraid2024-11-16T00:00:00+00:002024-11-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/its-ok-to-be-afraid/What is the point of an online conference?2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:002024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/what-is-the-point-of-an-online-conference/Serious fun2024-10-20T00:00:00+00:002024-10-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/serious-fun/0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, books2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:002024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0049/Smolderingly fast b-trees2024-10-06T00:00:00+00:002024-10-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/smolderingly-fast-btrees/HYTRADBOI 20252024-09-21T00:00:00+00:002024-09-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025/0048: zest progress, zest ordering, wasm alignment, umbra papers, future of fast code, new internet, books, other stuff2024-08-31T00:00:00+00:002024-08-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0048/0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, books2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:002024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0047/Baby's second wasm compiler2024-07-09T00:00:00+00:002024-07-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/babys-second-wasm-compiler/Ruminating about mutable value semantics2024-06-03T00:00:00+00:002024-06-03T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we drive2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:002024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0046/Zest: syntax2024-04-16T00:00:00+00:002024-04-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zest-syntax/0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compiler books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other books2024-03-28T00:00:00+00:002024-03-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0045/Notes on compiler IRs2024-03-27T00:00:00+00:002024-03-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/notes-on-compiler-irs/Miscellaneous ideas2024-03-23T00:00:00+00:002024-03-23T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/miscellaneous-ideas/How to trade software for small money?2024-03-21T00:00:00+00:002024-03-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-to-trade-software-for-small-money/Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebra2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:002024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-is-syntactic-sugar-for-relational-algebra/Unexplanations: relational algebra is math2024-03-11T00:00:00+00:002024-03-11T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-relational-algebra-is-math/0044: zest progress, unexplanations, generic dilemma, bitc retrospective, adversarial memory safety, done list, tiny muffins, anti-anti-spam, happiness, daily rituals, other books2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:002024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0044/Zest: dialects and metaprogramming2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:002024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zest-dialects-and-metaprogramming/Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarative2024-02-21T00:00:00+00:002024-02-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-declarative/Zest: notation and representation2024-02-04T00:00:00+00:002024-02-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/notation-and-representation/0043: 2023, debog, never sort, critique of sql, status game, more fuel you2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:002024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0043/20232024-01-15T00:00:00+00:002024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2023/0042: consulting lessons, there are no strings on me, buttondown, focus goof, jsfuck, 1ml2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:002023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0042/There are no strings on me2023-11-22T00:00:00+00:002023-11-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/there-are-no-strings-on-me/0041: columnar kernels in go, go grouches, column sketches, why user-mode threads, gross margins vs open source, celebrity worship2023-11-04T00:00:00+00:002023-11-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0041/Columnar kernels in go?2023-10-20T00:00:00+00:002023-10-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/columnar-kernels-in-go/0040.1: meta in myanmar2023-09-29T00:00:00+00:002023-09-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0040-1/0040: olap survey, lobster, feldera, innovation, wizard papers, umbra papers, olap papers2023-09-29T00:00:00+00:002023-09-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0040/A shallow survey of OLAP and HTAP query engines2023-09-28T00:00:00+00:002023-09-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/a-shallow-survey-of-olap-and-htap-query-engines/0039: implementing interactive languages, baby's first wasm compiler, zig 0.11, attack of the killer features, zed, attention span, psychology's loss, privatizing sovereignty2023-08-29T00:00:00+00:002023-08-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0039/Baby's first wasm compiler2023-08-28T00:00:00+00:002023-08-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/babys-first-wasm-compiler/Implementing interactive languages2023-08-24T00:00:00+00:002023-08-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-interactive-languages/0038.1: consulting2023-08-10T00:00:00+00:002023-08-10T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0038-1/0038: cheap compilation, mvs-to-wasm, automatically isolating bugs, mastodone, other stuff2023-07-28T00:00:00+00:002023-07-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0038/0037: dynamic mutable value semantics, interior pointers, uninterning, functionless effects, papers, books2023-06-27T00:00:00+00:002023-06-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0037/0036: typescript, papers, books2023-05-29T00:00:00+00:002023-05-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0036/0035: back to the shack2023-05-04T00:00:00+00:002023-05-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0035/What is a database?2023-04-19T00:00:00+00:002023-04-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/what-is-a-database/0034: perf handover, compaction unchained, crash harder, sketching the query engine, focus catchup, android update policies, legopunk, a world without email, nobody cares, segcache, bloomRF, existential consistency, ssd parameters, fantastic ssd internals2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:002023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0034/0033: table sizing, bench harder, wasm first steps, sycl vancouver, breathing for warriors, move your dna, the molecule of more, how to decide, slouching towards utopia2023-03-05T00:00:00+00:002023-03-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0033/0032: undroppable tombstones, forest fuzzer, manifest race, hash_log, zig coercions, zig pointer hops, zig object notation, domain knowledge, built from broken, database internals, papers2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:002023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0032/0031: 2022, systems distributed, random ids, deleting tombstones, disorderly compaction, juggling blocks, code review woes, holiday shutdown, searching for implementors, everything is copy, sharing the page cache after fysncgate, 9/10 climbers, rise and fall of peer review, real-world concurrency2023-01-05T00:00:00+00:002023-01-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0031/20222023-01-05T00:00:00+00:002023-01-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2022/0030: lsm perf, colorblind concurrency, tracing, evacuating preimp, reading, fixing my shoulders2022-12-05T00:00:00+00:002022-12-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0030/0029: san francisco, seattle, tigerbeetle, studying, links2022-11-04T00:00:00+00:002022-11-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0029/0028: HYTRADBOI jam, sqllogictest in a week, how safe is zig again, rr on alder lake, google maps jank, links2022-10-05T00:00:00+00:002022-10-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0028/0027.1: hytradboi jam2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:002022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0027-1/0027: preimp, framework, dotfiles and backups, links2022-08-28T00:00:00+00:002022-08-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0027/0026: break, preimp essay, focus + clojure, zed experiments, decorrelation and nested relations, bunny, sqlite mode, reading, links2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:002022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0026/0025: preimp, focus + mach, emergent ventures, clockwork labs, success, hytradboi ideas, zig debugging tips, dev-setup.sh, clojurescript blues, analogies for end-user programming, half-arsed workflows, javascript vs serialization, links2022-06-24T00:00:00+00:002022-06-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0025/0024: HYTRADBOI postmortem, HYTWACFI?, preimp, emergent ventures, data and reality, merkle search trees, readyset, julia compilation times2022-05-28T00:00:00+00:002022-05-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0024/HYTRADBOI 2022 postmortem2022-05-02T00:00:00+00:002022-05-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2022-postmortem/0023: HYTRADBOI teaser, dida vs datalogui, preimp cruft, dbsp, links etc2022-04-24T00:00:00+00:002022-04-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0023/The shape of data2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:002022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-shape-of-data/0022: preimp, shape of data, hytradboi progress, office hours, in nyc, riffle, cue, technical dimensions, js compound keys, hop2022-03-28T00:00:00+00:002022-03-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0022/0021: hytradboi schedule + tickets, imp v3 ideas, real world of technology, changing minds, essence of software, typed image-based programming with structure editing, fosdem 2022, introspecting async2022-02-21T00:00:00+00:002022-02-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0021/0020: hytradboi, milestones, data soup, airtable, self-hosting2022-02-03T00:00:00+00:002022-02-03T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0020/0019: Refactor2022-01-26T00:00:00+00:002022-01-26T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0019/0018: last reflections, why start a new database conference, 2021 retrospective, imp schemaless db + crdt, office hours, internal inconsistency in the wild, rss feeds, salsa needs finite collections, tiddlywiki vs unigraph, multidimensional indexes, arrow, just don't fsync, testing distributeds systems, tigerbeetle perf demos, web3, explicit formal structure, zig doctests, rust arenas, semidirect products of crdts, single-program distributed systems, sqlite qpsg, valhalla, mundanity of excellence, to mmap or not to mmap, libgavran, relational e-matching2022-01-17T00:00:00+00:002022-01-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0018/Imp: heterogenous types2022-01-10T00:00:00+00:002022-01-10T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-heterogenous-types/20212021-12-30T00:00:00+00:002021-12-30T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2021/Coding2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:002021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/coding/Why start a new database conference?2021-12-17T00:00:00+00:002021-12-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-start-a-new-database-conference/0017: hytradboi updates, imp stonks, misparaphrasing oracle, technical books, rum, creator economy, friend groups, ub, omg design principles, zig build, fossil and indexes, flatpak, skiplang, convex, fuzzing beyond testing, tigerbeetle dev videos, wafl2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:002021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0017/Testing2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:002021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/testing/Writing2021-11-25T00:00:00+00:002021-11-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/writing/0016: dida validator and debugger, focus selector perf and async children, emotional management, speed matters, moving faster, have you tried rubbing a database on it, handmade highlights, airtable scripts, bank python, napa, pollen, against markdown, zig-snapshots, exhaustive test inputs, gf, nixos debug symbols, duckdb blog2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:002021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0016/Emotional management2021-11-01T00:00:00+00:002021-11-01T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/emotional-management/Moving faster2021-10-23T00:00:00+00:002021-10-23T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/moving-faster/Speed matters2021-10-14T00:00:00+00:002021-10-14T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/speed-matters/0015: imp internals, reflections, precedence, make mode, mutant, q3, error recovery, tonsky ui, subtext 10, factfulness, benchmarking advice, dependency hubs, independent research, zig wayland, retool, observable dependencies, ugly buildings, without scihub, wasm virtual memory, huawei breakdown, infrastructure langauges, stencil vectors, chiX2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:002021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0015/2021 Q3 roundup2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:002021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2021-q3-roundup/Better operator precedence2021-10-09T00:00:00+00:002021-10-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/better-operator-precedence/Setting goals2021-10-06T00:00:00+00:002021-10-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/setting-goals/Things unlearned2021-09-29T00:00:00+00:002021-09-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/On bad advice2021-09-22T00:00:00+00:002021-09-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/on-bad-advice/Reflections on a decade of coding2021-09-22T00:00:00+00:002021-09-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/reflections-on-a-decade-of-coding/0014: imp live repl + syntax + errors, focus highlighting + squigglies, dida nop, web woes, undrafting, rel, oracle encore, chidb, pinebook touchpad, toplev, use of a life, imgui accessibility, wheel reinvention jam, chibicc, files vs web silos, handwritten parsers, perf ninja2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0014/Focus: intro2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/focus-intro/Focus: rendering2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/focus-rendering/Focus: text2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/focus-text/Thoughts on benchmarking streaming systems2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/thoughts-on-benchmarking-streaming-systems/Imp: live repl2021-09-04T00:00:00+00:002021-09-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-live-repl/0013: till death do us part, minimum wage, dida free, implicit ordering in relational languages, ultralearning, responses to against sql, oracle decorrelation, gede improvements, antisponsoring, convivial design heuristics, knowledge transfer, crafting databases, rust complexity, antitrust, gelly, shakti, lumosql, anti-marketing, NAAL, ledger of harms, tonsky icfp, debugging stories2021-08-07T00:00:00+00:002021-08-07T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0013/Implicit ordering in relational languages2021-08-05T00:00:00+00:002021-08-05T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implicit-ordering-in-relational-languages/Ultralearning2021-07-27T00:00:00+00:002021-07-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/ultralearning/0012: dida wasm api + indexes + reduce, food and carbon emissions, async rust, handmade seattle, ideas matter, tools for thought and dida animations, redpanda wasm, live 2021, opportunity costs of twitter, work vs jobs, sourcehut simplicity, writing tools faster, ec2 trends, the state of academia2021-07-09T00:00:00+00:002021-07-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0012/2021 Q2 roundup2021-07-09T00:00:00+00:002021-07-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2021-q2-roundup/Against SQL2021-07-09T00:00:00+00:002021-07-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/0011: dida release, DD reading, antirez and small tech, reactive ui, how to test, doom vs memory safety, state of academia, wasm-bindgen, apl compilers, relational.ai and salsa.jl2021-06-14T00:00:00+00:002021-06-14T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0011/0010: dida, live repls, query planning for streaming, rust allocators, more zig goto, database resources, guix on mac, criticising people's work, pay what you want2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:002021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0010/Making live repls behave2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:002021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/making-live-repls-behave/Why query planning for streaming systems is hard2021-05-08T00:00:00+00:002021-05-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-query-planning-for-streaming-systems-is-hard/0009: 2021 Q1 roundup, updates to internal consistency, garden of forking paths, push vs pull, beca, cambria2021-04-24T00:00:00+00:002021-04-24T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0009/2021 Q1 roundup2021-04-22T00:00:00+00:002021-04-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2021-q1-roundup/0008: the last internal consistency, geoffrey litt's new newsletter, business structure vs quality, aws throttling, papoc, our machinery, on twitter, injuries2021-04-17T00:00:00+00:002021-04-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0008/Internal consistency in streaming systems2021-04-17T00:00:00+00:002021-04-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consistency-in-streaming-systems/0007: yet more internal consistency, re: how safe is zig, async performance, local-first software, fuzzers and emulators, deterministic hardware counters, zig goto2021-04-03T00:00:00+00:002021-04-03T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0007/0006: more internal consistency, how safe is zig, bullshit jobs, debt, utopia of rules, kevin's zig adventure, pinebook pro, trio2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:002021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0006/Bullshit jobs2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:002021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/bullshit-jobs/Debt2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:002021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/debt/Utopia of rules2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:002021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/utopia-of-rules/How (memory) safe is zig?2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:002022-09-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/Memory-mapped IO registers in zig2021-03-08T00:00:00+00:002021-03-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mmio-in-zig/0005: internal consistency in streaming systems, MMIO in zig, a small matter of programming, rxi, martin kleppmann's new patreon, redpanda benchmarks2021-02-27T00:00:00+00:002021-02-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0005/An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems2021-02-27T00:00:00+00:002021-04-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/an-opinionated-map-of-incremental-and-streaming-systems/A small matter of programming2021-02-25T00:00:00+00:002021-02-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/a-small-matter-of-programming/0004: map of incremental/streaming systems, draft of thoughts on benchmarking streaming systems, the mature optimization handbook, various dataflow and database talks2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:002021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0004/The mature optimization handbook2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:002021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/the-mature-optimization-handbook/How Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:002021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/materialize-decorrelation/0003: optimizing correlated subqueries, digital minimalism, data-oriented design2021-02-06T00:00:00+00:002021-02-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0003/Digital minimalism2021-02-06T00:00:00+00:002021-02-06T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/digital-minimalism/0002: correlated subqueries intro, text editor data-structures, working in public, thoughts on independent research2021-01-30T00:00:00+00:002021-01-30T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0002/Working in public2021-01-26T00:00:00+00:002021-01-26T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/notes/working-in-public/0001: welcome, text editor intro + rendering2021-01-25T00:00:00+00:002021-01-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0001/Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:002021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-isnt-differential-dataflow-more-popular/2020 spending2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:002021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2020-spending/Looking for more debugger2020-12-13T00:00:00+00:002020-12-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/looking-for-debugger-2/Looking for debugger2020-12-13T00:00:00+00:002020-12-13T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/looking-for-debugger/Canada's Express Entry program2020-10-26T00:00:00+00:002020-10-26T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/canadas-express-entry-program/Assorted thoughts on zig (and rust)2020-10-19T00:00:00+00:002020-10-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/Small tech2020-09-07T00:00:00+00:002020-09-07T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/small-tech/Imp: iteration2020-06-17T00:00:00+00:002020-06-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-iteration/Imp: boxes2020-06-02T00:00:00+00:002020-06-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-boxes/Imp: solving functions2020-04-29T00:00:00+00:002020-04-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-solving-functions/Open multiple dispatch in zig2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:002020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/open-multiple-dispatch-in-zig/Pinephone first steps2020-04-27T00:00:00+00:002020-04-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/pinephone-first-steps/SELECT wat FROM sql2020-04-16T00:00:00+00:002020-04-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/Imp: decorrelation2020-02-02T00:00:00+00:002020-02-02T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-decorrelation/2019 spending2020-01-04T00:00:00+00:002020-01-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2019-spending/Imp: simple interpreter2019-10-18T00:00:00+00:002019-10-18T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-simple-interpreter/Imp: types2019-10-14T00:00:00+00:002019-10-14T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-types/Imp: denotational semantics2019-10-01T00:00:00+00:002019-10-01T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-denotational-semantics/Imp: core language2019-09-30T00:00:00+00:002019-09-30T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-sets-and-funs/Imp: intro2019-09-27T00:00:00+00:002019-09-27T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-intro/Frugality is non-linear2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:002019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/frugality-is-non-linear/Zero-copy deserialization in Julia2018-08-28T00:00:00+00:002018-08-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zero-copy-deserialization-in-julia/Julia as a platform for language development2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:002018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/julia-as-a-platform-for-language-development/Psychology vs the graphics pipeline2017-12-11T00:00:00+00:002017-12-11T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/psychology-vs-the-graphics-pipeline/Staged interpreters in rust2017-11-22T00:00:00+00:002017-11-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/staged-interpreters-in-rust/Contrast codes are an implementation detail2017-11-21T00:00:00+00:002017-11-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/contrast-coding-is-an-implementation-detail/A UI library for a relational language2017-07-28T00:00:00+00:002017-07-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/relational-ui/Decision points and utility2017-07-08T00:00:00+00:002017-07-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/decision-points-and-utility/Monolog2017-03-16T00:00:00+00:002017-03-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/monolog/Quick and dirty review of Psychology of Programming Interest Group 1989-20152016-11-17T00:00:00+00:002016-11-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/qnd-review-of-ppig-1989-2015/Vive experiments2016-10-28T00:00:00+00:002016-10-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/vive-experiments/A practical relational query compiler in 500 lines of code2016-10-11T00:00:00+00:002016-10-11T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/a-practical-relational-query-compiler-in-500-lines/Complexity budgets2015-10-25T00:00:00+00:002015-10-25T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/complexity-budgets/Three months of rust2015-06-04T00:00:00+00:002015-06-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/three-months-of-rust/Scaling down2015-02-09T00:00:00+00:002015-02-09T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/scaling-down/Imperative thinking and the making of sandwiches2014-07-21T00:00:00+00:002014-07-21T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imperative-thinking-and-the-making-of-sandwiches/Pain we forgot2014-05-17T00:00:00+00:002014-05-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/pain-we-forgot/Local state is harmful2014-02-17T00:00:00+00:002014-02-17T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/local-state-is-harmful/Search trees and core.logic2012-12-19T00:00:00+00:002012-12-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/search-trees-and-core-dot-logic/Strucjure: motivation2012-12-04T00:00:00+00:002012-12-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/strucjure-motivation/Causal ordering2012-08-16T00:00:00+00:002012-08-16T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/causal-ordering/Optimising texsearch2010-12-08T00:00:00+00:002010-12-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/optimising-texsearch/Design and analysis of a gossip algorithm2010-09-04T00:00:00+00:002010-09-04T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/design-and-analysis-of-a-gossip-algorithm/Examining scampy2010-05-19T00:00:00+00:002010-05-19T00:00:00+00:00https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/examining-scampy/