Reading List

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

Prepared statements for psql operations

Using prepared statements with operational queries to make it easy to replace parameters and save time.

Thoughts on ONCE + Campfire

ONCE’s $299 self-hosted Campfire. Is a web app for chat fine nowadays?

Hard media

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

Discovering histograms, kicking off metric rollups

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

The peanut gallery

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