Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Rich, fully attributed context timeout errors in Go

Making Go’s generic context deadline exceeded errors traceable with small helpers that attribute the operation that timed out and indicate how long the timeout was.

SQLite bulk insert with sqlc

Using json_each and json_extract to get bulk inserts in SQLite with sqlc.

Generating words? Keep them short.

It’s not possible to stop the torrent of LLM-generated content, but how about this as a simple ask: when generating content, keep it short.

Turns out, competition works

Gigabit fiber for less money using this one weird trick: move to Austin.

Caveman

In 1980, Michael Crichton characters in Congo spoke like cavemen to save satellite bandwidth. It was absurd. Ridiculous! Forty-five years later, we’re doing the same thing with LLMs to save tokens.