It's ok to be afraid
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What is the point of an online conference?
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Serious fun
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0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, books
0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, books
Smolderingly fast b-trees
Smolderingly fast b-trees I really didn’t need to go so far down this rabbit-hole…
HYTRADBOI 2025
2025 Feb 28. It’s happening again. HYTRADBOI 2025 All the cool database kids will be there.
0048: zest progress, zest ordering, wasm alignment, umbra papers, future of fast code, new internet, books, other stuff
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0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, books
0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, books
Baby's second wasm compiler
Many rabbit-holes later, I bring you baby's second wasm compiler!
Ruminating about mutable value semantics
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0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we drive
0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we drive
Zest: syntax
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0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compilers books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other books
0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compilers books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other...
Notes on compiler IRs
Notes on compiler IRs I had to read so many c macros to get these notes...
Miscellaneous ideas
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How to trade software for small money?
How to trade software for small money? Fun fact: human babies don't have kneecaps.
Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebra
Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebra Words, words, email providers like words in their emails.
Unexplanations: relational algebra is math
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0044: zest progress, unexplanations, generic dilemma, bitc retrospective, adversarial memory safety, done list, tiny muffins, anti-anti-spam, happiness, daily rituals, other books
0044: zest progress, unexplanations, generic dilemma, bitc retrospective, adversarial memory safety, done list, tiny muffins, anti-anti-spam, happiness,...
Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarative
The first entry in a series untangling bad answers to good questions: Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarative
Zest: notation and representation
How to balance control over memory layout vs allowing data to be interpreted independently of the process lifetime? Zest: notation and representation
0043: 2023, debog, never sort, critique of sql, status game, more fuel you
0043: 2023, debog, never sort, critique of sql, status game, more fuel you
0042: consulting lessons, there are no strings on me, buttondown, focus goof, jsfuck, 1ml
0042: consulting lessons, there are no strings on me, buttondown, focus goof, jsfuck, 1ml