The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.
"SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"
Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.
This was shocking because calculus is a required subject in American high schools, and this American doctor presumably went to American high school, not because the doctor didn't check in with mathematicians. Frankly, it would be equally shocking if the doctor had asked a mathematician if integration were a thing, because presumably a doctor is an educated member of society.
In the more mathematical realm in information theory, turbo codes came out of nowhere by people who were not experts in the field of FEC. Their efficiency far surpassed other methods of the time, to the point that their results in the conference paper were doubted. They didn't have any understanding at the time of why they worked well, they just published results.
Lots of physical phenomena start as simple observations that are later worked into theoretical frameworks. The photoelectric effect comes to mind.
"While the definitions before Conway's LIFE were proof-oriented, Conway's construction simply aimed at simplicity without a priori aiming at the proof of automaton being alive." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
The blog post serves that function.