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"2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff34685b2c", "title": "0059: NYC and SF?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0059/", "published_at": "2026-06-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff349f0af9", "title": "Borrow-checking without type-checking", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/", "published_at": "2026-04-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff35701708", "title": "0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0058/", "published_at": "2026-04-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff35bda80f", "title": "Borrow-checking surprises", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-surprises/", "published_at": "2026-04-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3699a19c", "title": "0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0057/", "published_at": "2026-02-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff36a68a41", "title": "2025", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2025/", "published_at": "2026-02-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3777d61d", "title": "0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0056/", "published_at": "2025-12-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff37d5e6f4", "title": "0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0055/", "published_at": "2025-11-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff37dbabe6", "title": "SQL needed structure", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/sql-needed-structure/", "published_at": "2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3854a3e4", "title": "0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0054/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff386e962b", "title": "Everyone's got one", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/everyones-got-one/", "published_at": "2025-08-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff387675fd", "title": "Go allocation probe", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/go-allocation-probe/", "published_at": "2025-07-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3900cd69", "title": "Store tags after payloads", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/store-tags-after-payloads/", "published_at": "2025-07-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff394c1c6f", "title": "0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0053/", "published_at": "2025-05-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff399192f4", "title": "A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/a-rough-survey-of-compilation-recompilation-and-compile-time-evaluation/", "published_at": "2025-04-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3a2fa1b6", "title": "0052: hytradboi videos and post-mortem, zest repo, no internet, on social media, my product is my garden, datafusion and clickhouse jits, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0052/", "published_at": "2025-03-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3b1beae8", "title": "HYTRADBOI 2025 postmortem", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025-postmortem/", "published_at": "2025-03-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3b7f210c", "title": "Other kinds of talks", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/other-kinds-of-talks/", "published_at": "2025-02-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3b9957e3", "title": "0051: hytradboi program and tickets, query compilers, decorrelation encore, books, misc", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0051/", "published_at": "2025-02-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3bfe2d41", "title": "HYTRADBOI 2025 program and tickets", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025-program-and-tickets/", "published_at": "2025-01-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3c6689e4", "title": "The missing tier for query compilers", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-missing-tier-for-query-compilers/", "published_at": "2025-01-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3cc4b365", "title": "0050: smolderingly fast b-trees, serious fun, what is the point of an online conference, it's ok to be afraid, HYTRADBOI progress, no other progress, vancouver.systems, not the incentives, llm garbage, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0050/", "published_at": "2024-11-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3d213174", "title": "It's ok to be afraid", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/its-ok-to-be-afraid/", "published_at": "2024-11-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3d4e6324", "title": "What is the point of an online conference?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/what-is-the-point-of-an-online-conference/", "published_at": "2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3de007dd", "title": "Serious fun", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/serious-fun/", "published_at": "2024-10-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3ecc994f", "title": "0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0049/", "published_at": "2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3f79d948", "title": "Smolderingly fast b-trees", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/smolderingly-fast-btrees/", "published_at": "2024-10-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3f9cebac", "title": "HYTRADBOI 2025", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2025/", "published_at": "2024-09-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff3fa735db", "title": "0048: zest progress, zest ordering, wasm alignment, umbra papers, future of fast code, new internet, books, other stuff", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0048/", "published_at": "2024-08-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff40a0969c", "title": "0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0047/", "published_at": "2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff414ce7d5", "title": "Baby's second wasm compiler", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/babys-second-wasm-compiler/", "published_at": "2024-07-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff41f796d4", "title": "Ruminating about mutable value semantics", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/", "published_at": "2024-06-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4284f94b", "title": "0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we drive", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0046/", "published_at": "2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4293ffa6", "title": "Zest: syntax", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zest-syntax/", "published_at": "2024-04-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff42e450dd", "title": "0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compiler books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0045/", "published_at": "2024-03-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff432eb43a", "title": "Notes on compiler IRs", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/notes-on-compiler-irs/", "published_at": "2024-03-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff44122057", "title": "Miscellaneous ideas", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/miscellaneous-ideas/", "published_at": "2024-03-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff44ff804b", "title": "How to trade software for small money?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-to-trade-software-for-small-money/", "published_at": "2024-03-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff45bcc0a4", "title": "Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebra", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-is-syntactic-sugar-for-relational-algebra/", "published_at": "2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff45d64ef9", "title": "Unexplanations: relational algebra is math", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-relational-algebra-is-math/", "published_at": "2024-03-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff46277216", "title": "0044: zest progress, unexplanations, generic dilemma, bitc retrospective, adversarial memory safety, done list, tiny muffins, anti-anti-spam, happiness, daily rituals, other books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0044/", "published_at": "2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff47161980", "title": "Zest: dialects and metaprogramming", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/zest-dialects-and-metaprogramming/", "published_at": "2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff47910b39", "title": "Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarative", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-declarative/", "published_at": "2024-02-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff485d48ed", "title": "Zest: notation and representation", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/notation-and-representation/", "published_at": "2024-02-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4933ceb8", "title": "0043: 2023, debog, never sort, critique of sql, status game, more fuel you", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0043/", "published_at": "2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff495eba61", "title": "2023", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2023/", "published_at": "2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4a3dbb56", "title": "0042: consulting lessons, there are no strings on me, buttondown, focus goof, jsfuck, 1ml", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0042/", "published_at": "2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4a6a3418", "title": "There are no strings on me", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/there-are-no-strings-on-me/", "published_at": "2023-11-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4b30125f", "title": "0041: columnar kernels in go, go grouches, column sketches, why user-mode threads, gross margins vs open source, celebrity worship", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0041/", "published_at": "2023-11-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4c300b08", "title": "Columnar kernels in go?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/columnar-kernels-in-go/", "published_at": "2023-10-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4c4e6a50", "title": "0040.1: meta in myanmar", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0040-1/", "published_at": "2023-09-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4d1e9f8e", "title": "0040: olap survey, lobster, feldera, innovation, wizard papers, umbra papers, olap papers", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0040/", "published_at": "2023-09-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4dc3ff3d", "title": "A shallow survey of OLAP and HTAP query engines", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/a-shallow-survey-of-olap-and-htap-query-engines/", "published_at": "2023-09-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4e4c0b15", "title": "0039: implementing interactive languages, baby's first wasm compiler, zig 0.11, attack of the killer features, zed, attention span, psychology's loss, privatizing sovereignty", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0039/", "published_at": "2023-08-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4eff7ee8", "title": "Baby's first wasm compiler", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/babys-first-wasm-compiler/", "published_at": "2023-08-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4f0258b6", "title": "Implementing interactive languages", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-interactive-languages/", "published_at": "2023-08-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff4fdab389", "title": "0038.1: consulting", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0038-1/", "published_at": "2023-08-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff50ccd20c", "title": "0038: cheap compilation, mvs-to-wasm, automatically isolating bugs, mastodone, other stuff", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0038/", "published_at": "2023-07-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff515e0a2d", "title": "0037: dynamic mutable value semantics, interior pointers, uninterning, functionless effects, papers, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0037/", "published_at": "2023-06-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff524d52ef", "title": "0036: typescript, papers, books", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0036/", "published_at": "2023-05-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff5267aaa2", "title": "0035: back to the shack", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0035/", "published_at": "2023-05-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff526e7981", "title": "What is a database?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/what-is-a-database/", "published_at": "2023-04-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04ea-73dc-9bbf-a1ff534378c1", "title": "0034: perf handover, compaction unchained, crash harder, sketching the query engine, focus catchup, android update policies, legopunk, a world without email, nobody cares, segcache, bloomRF, existential consistency, ssd parameters, fantastic ssd internals", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0034/", "published_at": "2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a181ec86938", "title": "0033: table sizing, bench harder, wasm first steps, sycl vancouver, breathing for warriors, move your dna, the molecule of more, how to decide, slouching towards utopia", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0033/", "published_at": "2023-03-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a181f3d98dc", "title": "0032: undroppable tombstones, forest fuzzer, manifest race, hash_log, zig coercions, zig pointer hops, zig object notation, domain knowledge, built from broken, database internals, papers", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0032/", "published_at": "2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a181fc29f67", "title": "0031: 2022, systems distributed, random ids, deleting tombstones, disorderly compaction, juggling blocks, code review woes, holiday shutdown, searching for implementors, everything is copy, sharing the page cache after fysncgate, 9/10 climbers, rise and fall of peer review, real-world concurrency", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0031/", "published_at": "2023-01-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18200b99b7", "title": "2022", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2022/", "published_at": "2023-01-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1820eebdc2", "title": "0030: lsm perf, colorblind concurrency, tracing, evacuating preimp, reading, fixing my shoulders", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0030/", "published_at": "2022-12-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18219f8e18", "title": "0029: san francisco, seattle, tigerbeetle, studying, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0029/", "published_at": "2022-11-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182229c939", "title": "0028: HYTRADBOI jam, sqllogictest in a week, how safe is zig again, rr on alder lake, google maps jank, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0028/", "published_at": "2022-10-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182286ed14", "title": "0027.1: hytradboi jam", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0027-1/", "published_at": "2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1822e1ae2e", "title": "0027: preimp, framework, dotfiles and backups, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0027/", "published_at": "2022-08-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1823ba9032", "title": "0026: break, preimp essay, focus + clojure, zed experiments, decorrelation and nested relations, bunny, sqlite mode, reading, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0026/", "published_at": "2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18245da89e", "title": "0025: preimp, focus + mach, emergent ventures, clockwork labs, success, hytradboi ideas, zig debugging tips, dev-setup.sh, clojurescript blues, analogies for end-user programming, half-arsed workflows, javascript vs serialization, links", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0025/", "published_at": "2022-06-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18246636c6", "title": "0024: HYTRADBOI postmortem, HYTWACFI?, preimp, emergent ventures, data and reality, merkle search trees, readyset, julia compilation times", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0024/", "published_at": "2022-05-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18246c871c", "title": "HYTRADBOI 2022 postmortem", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2022-postmortem/", "published_at": "2022-05-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182485ca5c", "title": "0023: HYTRADBOI teaser, dida vs datalogui, preimp cruft, dbsp, links etc", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0023/", "published_at": "2022-04-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1825080d7d", "title": "The shape of data", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-shape-of-data/", "published_at": "2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1825f39e31", "title": "0022: preimp, shape of data, hytradboi progress, office hours, in nyc, riffle, cue, technical dimensions, js compound keys, hop", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0022/", "published_at": "2022-03-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1826ec65e7", "title": "0021: hytradboi schedule + tickets, imp v3 ideas, real world of technology, changing minds, essence of software, typed image-based programming with structure editing, fosdem 2022, introspecting async", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0021/", "published_at": "2022-02-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18277d3e08", "title": "0020: hytradboi, milestones, data soup, airtable, self-hosting", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0020/", "published_at": "2022-02-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1827ff6874", "title": "0019: Refactor", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0019/", "published_at": "2022-01-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18284d2d77", "title": "0018: last reflections, why start a new database conference, 2021 retrospective, imp schemaless db + crdt, office hours, internal inconsistency in the wild, rss feeds, salsa needs finite collections, tiddlywiki vs unigraph, multidimensional indexes, arrow, just don't fsync, testing distributeds systems, tigerbeetle perf demos, web3, explicit formal structure, zig doctests, rust arenas, semidirect products of crdts, single-program distributed systems, sqlite qpsg, valhalla, mundanity of excellenc", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0018/", "published_at": "2022-01-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18285fa234", "title": "Imp: heterogenous types", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-heterogenous-types/", "published_at": "2022-01-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a18288ae272", "title": "2021", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/2021/", "published_at": "2021-12-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182899df55", "title": "Coding", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/coding/", "published_at": "2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1828e376bf", "title": "Why start a new database conference?", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/why-start-a-new-database-conference/", "published_at": "2021-12-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a1829d149dd", "title": "0017: hytradboi updates, imp stonks, misparaphrasing oracle, technical books, rum, creator economy, friend groups, ub, omg design principles, zig build, fossil and indexes, flatpak, skiplang, convex, fuzzing beyond testing, tigerbeetle dev videos, wafl", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0017/", "published_at": "2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182a5c37d9", "title": "Testing", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/testing/", "published_at": "2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182b19f6a5", "title": "Writing", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/writing/", "published_at": "2021-11-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182ba8f5d9", "title": "0016: dida validator and debugger, focus selector perf and async children, emotional management, speed matters, moving faster, have you tried rubbing a database on it, handmade highlights, airtable scripts, bank python, napa, pollen, against markdown, zig-snapshots, exhaustive test inputs, gf, nixos debug symbols, duckdb blog", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0016/", "published_at": "2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182c75c08c", "title": "Emotional management", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/emotional-management/", "published_at": "2021-11-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182cf396f1", "title": "Moving faster", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/moving-faster/", "published_at": "2021-10-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182d30ab00", "title": "Speed matters", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/speed-matters/", "published_at": "2021-10-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-04eb-70d4-bad0-4a182d52934a", "title": "0015: imp internals, reflections, precedence, make mode, mutant, q3, error recovery, tonsky ui, subtext 10, factfulness, benchmarking advice, dependency hubs, independent research, zig wayland, retool, observable dependencies, ugly buildings, without scihub, wasm virtual memory, huawei breakdown, infrastructure langauges, stencil vectors, chiX", "url": "https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0015/", "published_at": "2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsorsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Synthetic sagasoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Artificial adventuresoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
I'm not a catoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
0060: SForiginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
0059: NYC and SF?original ↗
5 Jun 2026
Borrow-checking without type-checkingoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
Borrow-checking surprisesoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, linksoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026
2025original ↗
17 Feb 2026

2025

0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, booksoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stufforiginal ↗
1 Nov 2025
SQL needed structureoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2025
0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, booksoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Everyone's got oneoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2025
Go allocation probeoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2025
Store tags after payloadsoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2025
0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, booksoriginal ↗
31 May 2025
A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluationoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
0052: hytradboi videos and post-mortem, zest repo, no internet, on social media, my product is my garden, datafusion and clickhouse jits, booksoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2025
HYTRADBOI 2025 postmortemoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2025
Other kinds of talksoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2025
0051: hytradboi program and tickets, query compilers, decorrelation encore, books, miscoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2025
HYTRADBOI 2025 program and ticketsoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
The missing tier for query compilersoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2025

2024

0050: smolderingly fast b-trees, serious fun, what is the point of an online conference, it's ok to be afraid, HYTRADBOI progress, no other progress, vancouver.systems, not the incentives, llm garbage, booksoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2024
It's ok to be afraidoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2024
What is the point of an online conference?original ↗
30 Oct 2024
Serious funoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2024
0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, booksoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2024
Smolderingly fast b-treesoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2024
HYTRADBOI 2025original ↗
21 Sept 2024
0048: zest progress, zest ordering, wasm alignment, umbra papers, future of fast code, new internet, books, other stufforiginal ↗
31 Aug 2024
0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, booksoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2024
Baby's second wasm compileroriginal ↗
9 Jul 2024
Ruminating about mutable value semanticsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we driveoriginal ↗
2 May 2024
Zest: syntaxoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2024
0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compiler books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other booksoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2024
Notes on compiler IRsoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2024
Miscellaneous ideasoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2024
How to trade software for small money?original ↗
21 Mar 2024
Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebraoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2024
Unexplanations: relational algebra is mathoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2024
0044: zest progress, unexplanations, generic dilemma, bitc retrospective, adversarial memory safety, done list, tiny muffins, anti-anti-spam, happiness, daily rituals, other booksoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
Zest: dialects and metaprogrammingoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarativeoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024
Zest: notation and representationoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2024
0043: 2023, debog, never sort, critique of sql, status game, more fuel youoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2024
2023original ↗
15 Jan 2024

2023

0042: consulting lessons, there are no strings on me, buttondown, focus goof, jsfuck, 1mloriginal ↗
1 Dec 2023
There are no strings on meoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2023
0041: columnar kernels in go, go grouches, column sketches, why user-mode threads, gross margins vs open source, celebrity worshiporiginal ↗
4 Nov 2023
Columnar kernels in go?original ↗
20 Oct 2023
0040.1: meta in myanmaroriginal ↗
29 Sept 2023
0040: olap survey, lobster, feldera, innovation, wizard papers, umbra papers, olap papersoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2023
A shallow survey of OLAP and HTAP query enginesoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2023
0039: implementing interactive languages, baby's first wasm compiler, zig 0.11, attack of the killer features, zed, attention span, psychology's loss, privatizing sovereigntyoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2023
Baby's first wasm compileroriginal ↗
28 Aug 2023
Implementing interactive languagesoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2023
0038.1: consultingoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2023
0038: cheap compilation, mvs-to-wasm, automatically isolating bugs, mastodone, other stufforiginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
0037: dynamic mutable value semantics, interior pointers, uninterning, functionless effects, papers, booksoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2023
0036: typescript, papers, booksoriginal ↗
29 May 2023
0035: back to the shackoriginal ↗
4 May 2023
What is a database?original ↗
19 Apr 2023
0034: perf handover, compaction unchained, crash harder, sketching the query engine, focus catchup, android update policies, legopunk, a world without email, nobody cares, segcache, bloomRF, existential consistency, ssd parameters, fantastic ssd internalsoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2023
0033: table sizing, bench harder, wasm first steps, sycl vancouver, breathing for warriors, move your dna, the molecule of more, how to decide, slouching towards utopiaoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
0032: undroppable tombstones, forest fuzzer, manifest race, hash_log, zig coercions, zig pointer hops, zig object notation, domain knowledge, built from broken, database internals, papersoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2023
0031: 2022, systems distributed, random ids, deleting tombstones, disorderly compaction, juggling blocks, code review woes, holiday shutdown, searching for implementors, everything is copy, sharing the page cache after fysncgate, 9/10 climbers, rise and fall of peer review, real-world concurrencyoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2023
2022original ↗
5 Jan 2023

2022

0030: lsm perf, colorblind concurrency, tracing, evacuating preimp, reading, fixing my shouldersoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2022
0029: san francisco, seattle, tigerbeetle, studying, linksoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2022
0028: HYTRADBOI jam, sqllogictest in a week, how safe is zig again, rr on alder lake, google maps jank, linksoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2022
0027.1: hytradboi jamoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2022
0027: preimp, framework, dotfiles and backups, linksoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2022
0026: break, preimp essay, focus + clojure, zed experiments, decorrelation and nested relations, bunny, sqlite mode, reading, linksoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2022
0025: preimp, focus + mach, emergent ventures, clockwork labs, success, hytradboi ideas, zig debugging tips, dev-setup.sh, clojurescript blues, analogies for end-user programming, half-arsed workflows, javascript vs serialization, linksoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
0024: HYTRADBOI postmortem, HYTWACFI?, preimp, emergent ventures, data and reality, merkle search trees, readyset, julia compilation timesoriginal ↗
28 May 2022
HYTRADBOI 2022 postmortemoriginal ↗
2 May 2022
0023: HYTRADBOI teaser, dida vs datalogui, preimp cruft, dbsp, links etcoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2022
The shape of dataoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2022
0022: preimp, shape of data, hytradboi progress, office hours, in nyc, riffle, cue, technical dimensions, js compound keys, hoporiginal ↗
28 Mar 2022
0021: hytradboi schedule + tickets, imp v3 ideas, real world of technology, changing minds, essence of software, typed image-based programming with structure editing, fosdem 2022, introspecting asyncoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2022
0020: hytradboi, milestones, data soup, airtable, self-hostingoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2022
0019: Refactororiginal ↗
26 Jan 2022
0018: last reflections, why start a new database conference, 2021 retrospective, imp schemaless db + crdt, office hours, internal inconsistency in the wild, rss feeds, salsa needs finite collections, tiddlywiki vs unigraph, multidimensional indexes, arrow, just don't fsync, testing distributeds systems, tigerbeetle perf demos, web3, explicit formal structure, zig doctests, rust arenas, semidirect products of crdts, single-program distributed systems, sqlite qpsg, valhalla, mundanity of excellencoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2022
Imp: heterogenous typesoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2022

2021

2021original ↗
30 Dec 2021
Codingoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2021
Why start a new database conference?original ↗
17 Dec 2021
0017: hytradboi updates, imp stonks, misparaphrasing oracle, technical books, rum, creator economy, friend groups, ub, omg design principles, zig build, fossil and indexes, flatpak, skiplang, convex, fuzzing beyond testing, tigerbeetle dev videos, wafloriginal ↗
15 Dec 2021
Testingoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
Writingoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2021
0016: dida validator and debugger, focus selector perf and async children, emotional management, speed matters, moving faster, have you tried rubbing a database on it, handmade highlights, airtable scripts, bank python, napa, pollen, against markdown, zig-snapshots, exhaustive test inputs, gf, nixos debug symbols, duckdb blogoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2021
Emotional managementoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2021
Moving fasteroriginal ↗
23 Oct 2021
Speed mattersoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2021
0015: imp internals, reflections, precedence, make mode, mutant, q3, error recovery, tonsky ui, subtext 10, factfulness, benchmarking advice, dependency hubs, independent research, zig wayland, retool, observable dependencies, ugly buildings, without scihub, wasm virtual memory, huawei breakdown, infrastructure langauges, stencil vectors, chiXoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2021
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