Oskar Wickström

@electric-sql.com is doing good stuff in this area too. Not quite a sync engine iiuc, but streaming read layer from PostgreSQL.

Current status: sunshine, dusty mandolin, and arpeggios

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On our introduction of generative end-to-end testing of the TigerBeetle database.

Definitely concerning, but I don't know really. For something as rigid as the thing I'm doing it's probably not a problem. But where validation is harder, that is a lot more problematic.

Right, I agree. I'm mostly looking at those abstract ideas, not so much Cursor in itself. Not the right vehicle for what I'm trying right now, at least.

I'm trying out scour.ing by @emschwartz.me

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You are using Cursor AI incorrectly... I'm hesitant to give this advice away for free, but I'm gonna push past it and share it anyway. You're using Cursor incorrectly. Over the last few weeks I've been doing /zooms with software engineers...

Agreed! I find Geoffrey's blog on Cursor inspiring in that regard: ghuntley.com/stdlib/

I haven't done anything like that yet though.

New blog post on a new topic (for my blog): "Machine: Learning; Human: Unlearning;"

wickstrom.tech/2025-02-11-m...

I like your current style btw.

+1

Shelving done! Some oil finish remaining, then it's time to fill up.

Office upgrade project in progress! The bookshelf is taking shape, just need to mount it next to the IVAR cabinets and cut out the remaining shelves.

Probably finishing it with linseed oil for now. Maybe paint later, but I like the fur against the olive green wall.

Browsing Ikea on Daylight tablet.

Sketch of bookshelves and storage system on a Daylight tablet.

Sketching out my new office storage system. I love using the Daylight for these projects.

TOC and content parsing of avi.im/blag/about/ finally getting there.

I just discovered this charting lib that is pure css and semantic html. Write a <table>, slap on some classes... holy shit you have charts 🤯

One of the most inspiring cases of "use the platform" I've seen in a long time: chartscss.org

Yeah definitely! Next level is probably the "in anger" one, which entails more frustrations related to size and time, as you say.

I've spent the last two months writing rust on evenings/weekends, so when I got to choose language it suddenly felt like the lost reasonable choice.

Forgetting the details and muscle memory goes very fast for me. 5 years of Kotlin and 6 months later it feels weird. 😅

Surviving two Rust live coding interviews in one day definitely feels like a milestone. From dabbler to rookie, perhaps.

bsky.app/profile/wick... sums it up briefly.

No no, I think it's fine. The crawler is the problem!

It's a problem the crawler currently has with many sites; that the TOC is sort of "spread out" or duplicated. It's not just a single big list of links. But I'm making progress on that front... :)

It's a tricky one :)

Thanks!

Anyone who can give permission to have their blog or site used as a test case? I need moar. Please reply with urls.

Same.

Also, no use in pretending you get to choose when you sleep. :)

Pinning one central parenting unit to handle a batch of child jobs, yeah, that makes sense!

Unicode success, finally. (Pandoc is doing the heavy lifting.)

Nice! Turns out duckduckgo has prefixes too.

Also: taking name suggestions for this thing. `site2doc` is the working name, but I'd like something less techy and more catchy, something for the inevitable domain purchase.