Databases in 2024: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University
- https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html Focus on Licence Changes. I've watched too. Great changelog interview with ELK Stack Author. Great post by Antirez about his return to Redis (https://antirez.com/news/144)
Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508 Interesting debate on VIM vs IDE. I write Bash in Vim and Python in IDE (VSCode + iPython) and although enamoured by David Baeyzley's mastery, the IDE's just where I'm at with that particular language. To each his own, I think for this.
Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592543 Discussions of one of my favorite papers and favorite podcast episodes (Future of Code)
Bird (2024)
- https://mubi.com/en/de/films/bird A movie I found when listening to Fountains DC's Bug song.
Null device - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_device Learning about black hole register and /dev/null in bash.
Say NO to Venn Diagrams When Explaining JOINs – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
- https://blog.jooq.org/say-no-to-venn-diagrams-when-explaining-joins/ Return to this post as a refresher on SQL JOINs.
Hotel California - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack
- https://benn.substack.com/p/hotel-california?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=23588&post_id=154556809&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=25tz5&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email On chaotic reality crashing into life filled with simulation.
Remembering Mike Maples, Sr.
- https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/remembering-mike-maples-sr All along, Mike created a culture of respect, collaboration, and most of all “promise and deliver”. He instilled in everyone the most basic notion of saying what you’re going to do and doing that well.
Why Greenland Is Of Growing Strategic Significance
- https://www.twz.com/news-features/why-greenland-is-of-growing-strategic-significance Reminds of a book with the title "The Revenge of Geography"
Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery
AI’s Uneven Arrival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- https://stratechery.com/2025/ais-uneven-arrival/ An eye-opener for o3. This is a surprising and important step-function increase in AI capabilities, showing novel task adaptation ability never seen before in the GPT-family models. For context, ARC-AGI-1 took 4 years to go from 0% with GPT-3 in 2020 to 5% in 2024 with GPT-4o. All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3, which performs at 75% for ths test.
The Origins of Wokeness
- https://paulgraham.com/woke.html We should have a conscious bias against defining new forms of heresy. Whenever anyone tries to ban saying something that we'd previously been able to say, our initial assumption should be that they're wrong. Only our initial assumption of course. If they can prove we should stop saying it, then we should. But the burden of proof is on them. In liberal democracies, people trying to prevent something from being said will usually claim they're not merely engaging in censorship, but trying to prevent some form of "harm". And maybe they're right. But once again, the burden of proof is on them. It's not enough to claim harm; they have to prove it.
Heroku and the Twelve-Factor App with Vish Abrams - Software Engineering Daily
- https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/01/14/heroku-and-the-twelve-factor-app-with-vish-abrams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heroku-and-the-twelve-factor-app-with-vish-abrams the manifesto is getting a rewrite, driven by Heroku but being worked on collectivelly as an open-source project, great chat on current state of Heroku as well.
Principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi
- https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/principles?publication_id=107423&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=3o9&utm_medium=email “Aim for Chartres” (Christopher Alexander) — when doing something, aim to be the best there ever was at it. This compensates for your natural bias, which is to do something mediocre. You have to really aim to be as good as the greats.
Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42738656 I am using Mermaid on my client meetings multiple times a week. It's just amazing.
The quiet rebellion of a little life
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769751 Near as I can tell there is a not-insignificant part of the American psychological context that amounts to a threat of utter destitution should you not choose to keep slaving away. By Krom, America needs homeless people to show you just how far you can fall unless you keep serving the man.
AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back
- https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/01/25/AI-Slop-Suspicion-and-Writing-Back/ I do AI slop as well and I own it on my blog.
From open source to acquired with Ashley Jeffs (Changelog Interviews #625)
- https://changelog.com/podcast/625 On Benthos Stream Processing, from OS to being bought by Red Panda. Very funny at times, the humor there seemed like instilled in Benthos itself.
Jinja (template engine) - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinja_(template_engine) Using Jinja for a simpler task as it was a first thing that occured to me. I should have just used a built-in Template module though. I did not need any programming logic in the template just a simple placeholders.
Good Lord - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack
- https://benn.substack.com/p/good-lord Such a brave critique of the politics of current Silicon Valley and catching its own hypocricies. Amazing and inspiring.
Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877709 Vatican's take on AI and many respectful voices on Hacker News. I can still get surprised!
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