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flexiflex··on The roots of software development in the textile industry (2024)
Rugs as our first print() functions
flexiflex··on [dead]
Wot
flexiflex··on Optimizing writes to OLAP using buffers (ClickHouse, Redpanda, MooseStack)
Weird, I always think real time when I think OLAP, but I guess that’s in the “consumption reactivity side” not the “batch inserts are good” side
flexiflex··on Build ClickHouse-Powered APIs with React and MooseStack
Once you replicate the data, you replicate the APIs and generate the sdks. Got it. But then how much work to change my front end components on the like 30 visualizations I have to actually use them? And to validate them?
flexiflex··on Data engineering and software engineering are converging
When I worked at bigCo , it was a totally different world. Data engineers used data platform tools to do data work, usually for data’s sake. Software teams trying to build stuff with data had to finagle their way onto roadmaps.
flexiflex··on Amazon funds seaweed farming at offshore wind farm to test CO2 capture
Why? carbon goes into the seaweed, seaweed gets turned into bioplastic which contains that carbon. Bioplastic is used and then discarded into a composter. Composter degrades the bioplastic, the carbon (and other nutrients) are in the compost that is created?
flexiflex··on Email Validation Logic is Wrong (2021)
I often find that my single character local address fails, and I need to add a plus something.

e.g. x@familyname.com is rejected, but x+whydidyourejectthis@familyname.com works

flexiflex··on Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone
Innovative new phone. Archaic anti-consumer contracts.
flexiflex··on Sprint to be exclusive carrier of Essential phone
BOO