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Double-Entry Ledgers: The Missing Primitive in Modern Software I think ledgers are underutilized in software development today. Specifically, double-entry ledger modeling would be a better fit in a lot of systems than the ad-hoc ledger-ish things they currently h...

New blog post: pgrs.net/2025/06/17/d...

17.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Visualizing Financial Data with DuckDB And Plotly I like to keep a pretty close eye on my finances, such as my spending habits and net worth. Over the years, I’ve used a lot of different tools, such as YNAB, Mint and Quicken.

New blog post about @tiller.com, @duckdb.org and @plotly.com pgrs.net/2025/05/22/v...

22.05.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Ledger In PostgreSQL Is Fast! I’ve been working on a ledger implementation in pure PostgreSQL called pgledger. For the backstory, please read my previous blog post: Ledger Implementation in PostgreSQL.

New blog post: pgrs.net/2025/05/16/p...

16.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm eager to bring this experience to a new challenge – I’m currently seeking a new opportunity.
- Role: Front-end Engineer, Design Engineer, or Product Engineer (TypeScript, React)
- Location: Fully Remote (EMEA / asynchronous work)
- Company: Product-led business with a strong engineering culture

05.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

Mainly because it gets expensive to sum up all of the entries once you have a lot of them.

Agree that there's a lot of complexity in modeling, but that part is less portable across projects/companies in my experience.

24.03.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ledger Implementation in PostgreSQL First, the tl;dr: I am working on a financial ledger implementation implemented entirely in PostgreSQL called pgledger.

New blog post and project: pgrs.net/2025/03/24/p...

24.03.2025 18:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a map of China's high speed rail network rotated and superimposed on a map of western North America

CAHSR if we were a real country
wbholland.github.io/trainspose/

21.02.2025 02:52 — 👍 45 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

My lab group is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey we'd love to hear from you. Or please feel free to share or repost for other cargo bike users. Many thanks! pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

18.02.2025 15:11 — 👍 115 🔁 121 💬 17 📌 10

Personal Notes Tooling I love keeping notes. Everything from meeting summaries to packing lists to books I’ve read and more. And these days, I tend to favor digital notes. I’m faster at typing than writing, and I love being...

New blog post: Personal Notes Tooling www.pgrs.net/2025/01/29/p...

29.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Betterment Metric - Angie Jones A simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

angiejones.tech/the-betterme...

22.11.2024 16:54 — 👍 289 🔁 99 💬 51 📌 40

Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.

Electricity map showing live CO₂ emissions of different countries. Fascinating to see the differences and flows

💡🔌

app.electricitymaps.com/zone/GB

12.11.2024 18:03 — 👍 38 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

Go Turns 15 - The Go Programming Language Happy 15th birthday, Go!

Happy birthday, Go! 🎂
go.dev/blog/15years

12.11.2024 17:21 — 👍 547 🔁 111 💬 4 📌 18

All these new people! A great time to repost this Venn diagram.

10.11.2024 23:04 — 👍 155 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 3

Apache Iceberg logo

I published a new post on the Sympathetic.Ink blog: "The advent of the Open Data Lake".
You are correct! this is talking about the rise of Apache Iceberg. 📊 #dataBS
sympathetic.ink/2024/11/07/T...

07.11.2024 18:44 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

DuckDB over Pandas/Polars Since my previous post on DuckDB (DuckDB as the New jq), I’ve been continuing to use and enjoy DuckDB.

New blog post: DuckDB over Pandas/Polars pgrs.net/2024/11/01/d...

01.11.2024 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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