Monday, Oct 25
Speed matters
made by jamii, submitted by nicholasbs
A thoughtful case for the benefits of learning how to do things faster.
~jamii
jamii’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: Feral man-ape
Monday, Sep 13
Imp: live repl
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie made a video introducing the live REPL for Imp, his relational programming language. The live REPL is embedded in Focus, his text editor (!!). Video is quiet, so crank your volume.
Monday, Aug 16
Implicit ordering in relational languages
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie continues exploring the bounds of relational programming by implementing a CRDT in both SQL and Imp, a language of his design.
Thursday, Aug 12
Implicit ordering in relational languages
Jamie walks through his process implementing a text CRDT in SQL and in his programming environment, imp.
Wednesday, Jul 14
Against SQL
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie makes a clear, compelling case for SQL’s shortcomings and what we could replace it with.
Monday, Mar 29
How safe is zig?
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie asks "How safe is zig, on a scale from c to rust?"
Thursday, Mar 11
An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems
An introductory exploration of different approaches to incremental systems, to be analyzed further in future posts.
Tuesday, Feb 23
How Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries
A great blog post about taking advantage of SQL's subqueries feature without sacrificing performance.
Tuesday, Jan 12
Looking for debugger
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie is searching for a good debugging experience for C and Zig. He tried a bunch of debuggers and wrote up what he found.
Wednesday, Sep 16
SELECT wat FROM sql
made by jamii, submitted by davidbalbert
Jamie was writing a SQL query compiler. Writing a compiler is a great way to get acquainted with all the weird nooks and crannies of a language. He has documented some for our reading pleasure.