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turning to the succor of modern computing machines, let us renounce all analytic tools https://buttondown.com/jaffray justinjaffray.com

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I didn't really expect how much of adulthood was going to be about watching other people use websites to keep track of books and movies they've recently seen

30.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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I guess some Core Design development stuff leaked and this screenshot from an Indiana Jones prototype for PSP is absolutely delightful

27.11.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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castle grounds

25.11.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
23.11.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1229    πŸ” 584    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

*first contact with an alien*
me: hey btw can you guys do SAT in polynomial time
<alien jeffπŸ‘½ has sent sat.zip>
me: is this c++
them: yeah just run make
me: it says im missing something called β€œlibyorbo”
them: that’s required for posix here

22.11.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i sent this to a friend and they would like to know if you have more music they can listen to/purchase somewhere

20.11.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Meme image little boy faces two paths, left to bright sunshine house "the attorneys office where my recently deceased eccentric uncle's will is read" vs dark scary house "the haunted house I have to sirens the night in to claim my inheritance"

Meme image little boy faces two paths, left to bright sunshine house "the attorneys office where my recently deceased eccentric uncle's will is read" vs dark scary house "the haunted house I have to sirens the night in to claim my inheritance"

19.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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First Half Life, 3 Screenshots

18.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1016    πŸ” 328    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 14
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

18.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 13017    πŸ” 3943    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 50

ive detached from all my algo feeds and am trying to relearn how to find stuff on my own and it has been really hard, i can't tell if it's me or the landscape. for music and recipes in particular but also everything else

17.11.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New style obsession:

01.09.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 445    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
15.11.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4240    πŸ” 1785    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 15

(when an app asks me to put in an 8-digit code to log in) mister big shot over here. 6 digits ain't good enough for him no more. he wants two whole extra digits, well la dee da (voice gets lower and quieter) you think you're better than everyone else? that what this is? think you're better than me?

14.11.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 420    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1

Teach a man a fancy AI text editor and they can hate it for a day, but teach a man vim and he can hate it for a lifetime.

14.11.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it feels like there is more money in text editors than ever before and i hate all the text editors i use more than ever before

13.11.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

>ask if new browser is real or chromeslop
>”it’s a good browser sir”
>it’s chromeslop

13.11.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

that’s right

12.11.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

presumably this is what mermaid always was if i looked hard enough but it's just annoying

12.11.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it would be nice to like a software project and then 5 years later NOT start getting emails from some PM trying to get me to buy a subscription to some cloud bullshit

12.11.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
the titular table master stands with cue in hand next to an illuminated portrait // Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

the titular table master stands with cue in hand next to an illuminated portrait // Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #retrogaming

12.11.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Understanding Cost Models

last time from here justinjaffray.com/understandin...

10.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to figure out how to get a really high quality rendering of the query plan diagram and I think I succeeded in getting something much nicer than the old rasterization methods:

10.11.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Query Plan Caching Serious NULL BITMAP heads know my love for the Query Plan Diagram. This is a 2D-rendering that represents the selection of plans for a particular shape of...

For NULL BITMAP: I wrote about query plan caching: buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

10.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the highlights on the sugimori drawings always hit me like a truck

07.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there are two wolves inside you. they are unaware of you, in any sense that you would recognize; to them you are the sunrise in the mist in the morning, and the cool moss on the warm earth in the night. the story of your life is the story of these wolves, and how they have run and hunted inside you.

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for such an expensive book there sure do seem to be a lot of them that pop up on ebay

06.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

nice try but i already had a subscription to that

04.11.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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