2021#16 Readings
3 minutes read | 498 words by Ruben BerenguelThis past week I’ve been on holidays in Cordoba. I put on 2.5kg in 4 days. Recommended.
Would definitely repeat. I have a ranking of salmorejo (we had at least one per day) as well.
Cordoba’s Mosque
A half-hour to learn Rust
This is pretty good. The section on closures was a bit too dense after all the rest, but from the little Rust I remember, this looks like the clearest and most concise explanation of it.
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
An excellent overview of the differences between push or pull based query engines, with simple examples written in (very easy) Javascript.
The Kelly Criterion
An introduciton to the KC (an optimal betting/investment strategy). Short, with examples, understandable.
How FoundationDB Powers Snowflake Metadata Forward
It’s a solid foundation to build a 60B company.
Iterators and generators
I only use Javascript for generative art and sometimes D3 plots, so my knowledge is relatively limited (I try to write as vanilla, without build tools as I can handle). For example, I wasn’t aware JS had generators, and they seem useful.
5 Neck Flexor Stretches to Reduce Pain and Improve Posture
I do some of these at Pilates. I have started doing some stretching early in the morning, because my back and arms are very stiff lately.
Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday
Microcode is one of those fascinating (and terrifying) things.
A day in the life of a professional software engineer
This will make you cry (with laughter).
Doing the hard work to make it clear
Presentation tip. I nodded hard.
How (and why) to become a PostgreSQL contributor
Contributing to Spark was pretty long-winded, but very rewarding. I’d guess it would be similar for Postgres.
Building Generative Grid Layouts With Quadtrees
Generating quadtrees in Javascript. Very useful for generative art.
Querying Parquet with Precision using DuckDB
I usually start a Python terminal and pandas with pyarrow, but more options is always good.
Monochromatic Portraits with GLSL
I’ve written a bit of shader code to compute a Mandelbrot set, and it still feels like dark magic.
Image color replacement with numerical optimization
The results are astonishing.
Reversals in psychology
Basically nothing you have seen in pop culture is actually scientifically validated. Ego depletion, Milgram…
