space on tty

May 2026

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Nine things, Space, Rust, Pi? Oh my!

Asked about backlash to AI, Superhuman Mail CEO Rahul Vohra — whose company makes an AI-powered email assistant — seemed unfamiliar with the premise of the question. After hearing about poor polling around AI, he responded: “We don’t really see that.”

Building Pi with Pi

Keep in mind that AI has not increased the number of people who need software, or the number of maintainers who can review it. It has mostly increased the amount of code and the number of projects competing for attention. Some of that is healthy, but a lot of it fragments effort that should be shared.

Project Hail Mary, stellar navigation chart

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m blown away by this spectacular visualisation and interactive map.

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

Words of encouragement.

Words of great encouragement.

Apr 2026

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From skiplists to intergalactic probes.

DuckDB 1.5.2: SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser

What are skiplists good for?

Later I discovered that a skiptree is closely related to a real data structure called a skip graph, a distributed data structure based on skiplists. Which just goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. Whatever crazy idea you have, there’s a good chance some other crazy person has already done it. Moral of the story: you never know when an exotic data structure will save you a lot of time and money.