Haha fair enough. ClickHouse is really good, but columnar databases are quite a different beast. DuckDB is a much gentler approach to learning it if you want to get into analytical workloads, but honestly Postgres is really great and can do a lot of this stuff well.

And to throw another spanner in there... 😃 If you're curious about trying an OLAP database like ClickHouse, DuckDB is to SQLite as ClickHouse is to Postgres (i.e. in-process, single file vs running a server).

Just wait until you see the eBPF-based tooling then 😃

Our work Slack even has a dedicated channel called #salmon for posting diff stats where lots of code is deleted

Another Pocket Casts user here. I remember being unhappy with Apple's Podcasts app, but I can't remember what bothered me about it now, but PC solved all my problems. I like the customisable skip forward/back times, and being able to have some podcasts skip the first N seconds to avoid intros/ads.

It's a weird world when a friend from college randomly quotes a post from an ex's ex.

TL;DR interviewing is a tough thing, but be prepared to give people a chance, try and tease out their reasoning skills even if they don't know everything you're looking for.

And agreed re: databases! SQLite first, Postgres when I need more.

I ended up choosing proto even though it's only for config to get ease of validation. With protovalidate I can load YAML or JSON and reject invalid config really easily. There didn't seem too many things that could do it as easily.

Buf.build makes it a lot less painful to work with.

This was the first laptop I bought after getting my first proper job. It was a great laptop! But wow was it a bit of a brick to lug around 😄

Loved the ability to swap the battery and carry a spare around. I miss the little button that made the battery level light up.

🙋🏼‍♂️ Although only 8 cores 😄

Oh, thanks for the reminder about this project. I remember starring it a very long time ago but had forgotten about it.

In a recent project I've been using protobuf for configuration which has been *fine* but I don't love it. Wish I'd tested out ent at the time.

This is really helping me test how quiet the Noctua fan in my ASRock DeskMini is 😄

Here is how For You works: it finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.

We even rewatched Firefly recently and I didn't notice!

Proboscis monkey vibes on the 12...

Happy new year, Andy!