What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not abnormal…
Part 1 - a history lesson The year is 1980. Last year RSI released Oracle V2, the world's first commercial SQL database for the PDP-11: At an unnamed bank you have rooms full of computers like the PDP-11, with specialized computer operators to keep them running. 'Dumb terminals' at people's…
Why don't we compose databases the same way we compose our functions? We use mathematical operators to compose functions all the time. Most of the time we do it without even really thinking about it: y = op2(op1(x)) Or with chaining and more functions and stuff: complexOp = x =>…
Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my “elders” and among young people in my general age group who were more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was. I admired the facility…
I'm so sick of MacOS's default background images. They're pretty, I've just seen them all so many times now. Uuuuuggghhh So in the spirit of Sam's daily prototypes I decided to do something about it. Enter Unsplash - a service / platform / thing with a huge database of completely free, beautiful…
We are not creatures of the light To run, play, dance in the sun Gleaming pillars of ego And daycare And flesh. For our world doesn't exist yet, Except in hidden places. The engine of a train The 50hz hum of mains The kernel of a computer, the Internet, my…