🔖 How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner
Come for the pun in the title, stay for the look at how database systems structure data on disks.
Come for the pun in the title, stay for the look at how database systems structure data on disks.
Dead hang exercise, using body weight to improve upper body strength
How this one family improved some land through light touch techniques to rejuvenate the soil.
Some tips on communication. Basically, be concise, get to the point, create structure.
Basically "Choose Boring Technology" (cited and linked in the first couple of paragraphs) and then expanded with "and these are the choices I made"
Walkthrough of setting up a Kubernetes cluster on a set of Orange Pi 0s
I mean...quoting Paul Graham right at the top. oof. But the thrust of the piece is generally good. Basically a paean to the essay and forced to structure thoughts in order to examine them
A learning guide to web components
A learning guide to web components
I can't decide if this is arch-capitalism or not. I am still brainworkmed by Kim Stanley Robinson's economic models from the Mars trilogy, and fell in love with the idea of joint ownership co-operatives. I loathe stock options offered to employees, which grant no actual ownership, just asking staff to give the company a loan and in return by on puppet strings
Call to action to explore building your own programming language
Guides for doing web development with just HTML, CSS, and Javascript. No Frameworks, just using the increasingly advanced tools in the W3C offerings.
Small workouts that can be done in the midst of the working day
Discussing beginning and intro concepts of Kubernetes
A walkthrough for building your own database
Primer on BTrees and how they are used in database indexing
A small manifesto/set of directions on mindfulness and calm in the face of the modern world
It’s a damn shame Lost never had any Vincent flashbacks.
A small manifesto/set of directions on mindfulness and calm in the face of the modern world
https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger
It’s increasingly obvious my To Read stack is basically “I wish I’d been less of a doofus and tried harder in my CS degree.”