Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blurays in 2024. Physical media is strictly worse, but I still miss it.

A good blog post on why aggregating aggregates doesn’t work, and using histograms to do the job instead.

On the use of words like “simple”, “elegant”, and “elegant” in the sense of software.

How to optimize field order in a row to avoid padding (for when tables are expected to be really big) and a useful query to help.

Most EXIF metadata is benign, and occasionally of nominal interest to somebody. Try leaving it in.