Justin

one of the pages i refer to every couple months that i think basically nobody knows about is this comparison of pebble and rocksdb by Peter Mattis, which contains coherent explanations of a lot of interesting LSM design dimensions github.com/cockroachdb/...

Interviewer, People Magazine but for Food:
Tell us about the Asiago Bacon Ranch.
Wendy Thomas: It is so delicious that most of the earth's surface will be dedicated to making it.
Interviewer: Incredible.
Wendy: Humanity will build a space station to harness sandwich rays from the sun to make more.

it’s such a cool algorithm, and his writeup is so good

NULL BITMAP: Using Huffman Coding for Sampling Discrete Distributions: buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Here's a power grid simulator (mostly vibecoded), showing two generators being dispatched to satisfy load changing over time. The cheaper generator (blue region) is dispatched first; the more expensive one (pink region) only when needed.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.

are you a creator or not? answer with your word or else your blood, dog

CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

it’s dance of the dead

i’ve acquired the join

mr vape smoke and bongs

vaperizz

vapezilla

vapester

smokers r us

vacation photos

would love to but had to fit too much stuff in this visit already :( next time definitely!

yeah! just for two days to visit some friends

they wouldn’t let me near the orca this time

Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Naoyuki Kato, 1987

Naoyuki Kato, 1987

oh also: if you print it out please send me a picture 👍👍👍

the whole thing was lots of work from everyone involved and i hope you enjoy it! now i am going back on vacation 🫡

featuring writing from @alexmillerdb.bsky.social, @forteshinko.bsky.social, @maxwellforbes.com, Evan Vigil-McClanahan, and Arthur Pointsman on database adjacent topics

Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Hiro Isono

Hiro Isono

Mage Arena's accents menu; particularly of note is that the British setting has been removed with the explanation: "British has been disabled, It did not work for anyone"

Also this is one of the funniest screens I have ever seen in a video game

i’m reading the book for the first time and it’s a lot weirder than i expected

completing quests is the best way to earn gold.

wind up link, green headwear, red shield with a cross, sword, walks off the edge of a desk.

illustration, excerpt, family computer magazine (1986) archive.org/details/fami...

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people