This article is part of my notes from Chapter 7 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. You can read other chapter notes as well. Chapter 1: Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability in Distributed Applications Chapter 2: Data Models and Query Languages Chapter 3: Data Storage and Retrieval...

I don’t have much to say about this bike other than, boy, what an interesting life it must have had. The ceramic wheels can’t have been part of the original equipment, and the AMP Research linkage fork sure wasn’t. The fork looks cool, but feels weird as hell to ride, so I can understand why the design didn’t catch...

I have used the C-l shortcut in ZSH to clear the screen for as long as I can remember. When I started using Eshell, one of the first problems I encountered was the inability to clear the buffer. I like to remove the output of previous commands to be able to focus on the current one, so let us script Emacs once...

This is a refreshed & expanded copy of a very old page I hosted outside of this blog. I recently ran into “silent NaNs” again, and thought it might be a good idea to republish this advice here. A small post that documents something that almost no one appears to know. And if you do anything with floating point, you...