5 December 2025

34 links · Friday

Leveraging the AI in your database...

Yesterday I wrote a blog post called “Who put the AI in my Database?” The topic of that blog post was how you can leverage the AI capabilities that Oracle has built into your database to train and deploy models. Being able to train and deploy an AI m...

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The inci…

Matrices: From Linear Algebra to Graphics

Matrices are a powerful mathematical tool, used everywhere from solving systemsof equations to rendering 3D graphics. In this post, we’ll explore the keymatrix operations: transpose, conjugate, inv...

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Effulgence RPGLooks sick.

AI Trade Arena

Testing GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek with $100K each over 8 months of backtested trading

warp speed ahead – Pinaraf's website

In our first JIT episode, we discussed how we could, using copy-patch, easily create a JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, with a slight improvement in performance compared to the PostgreSQL interpreter.

Ashley Willis

The other day I texted my group chat with other leaders outside my organization. The ones I go to when the leadership stuff gets messy and I need perspective fr...

Strategizing for my LLC

This post stems from my recent EOM Nov Update, where I was too lazy to list concrete next steps. Thanks Justin for hosting a useful 2026 goal-setting conversation with some other lovelies on Wednesday morn! Feedback welcome, especially on the clarity of the e…

The Constraints That Create Autonomy

The conventional wisdom about autonomy is simple: remove constraints. Get out of people’s way. Let them figure it out. Trust them to run.But this often backfires in a specific, predictable way. Tea...

Django: what’s new in 6.0 - Adam Johnson

Django 6.0 was released today, starting another release cycle for the loved and long-lived Python web framework (now 20 years old!). It comes with a mosaic of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to have helped with. Below is my pick …

Should CSS be Constraints?

CSS is hard. The layout rules are quite complex and hard to pick up just from examples. Something like "centering a <div>" is, like, famously a problem. Or remember the 2000s when you'd read A List Apart for all sorts of crazy ways to achieve the "Holy Grail" …

Super-flat ASTs

In my previous post, I introduced the simple programming language. Near the end of that post, I mentioned that the parser isn't very efficient.