Andrew Hornstra

Image of the moon through a telescope. The shadow of the earth covers about 15% of its surface, starting at the bottom right.

Image of the moon through a telescope. The shadow of the earth covers about 25-30% of its surface, starting at the bottom right.

Closer-up image of the moon through a telescope. Only the left half is visible. The edge of the shadow is the focus of the image. The shadow of the earth covers about 35% of its surface, starting at the bottom right.

Image of the moon through a telescope. There is heavy cloud coverage, and the moon is not very visible. Few details are discernible.The shadow of the earth covers about 90% of its surface, starting at the bottom right.

Took some photos of the eclipse last night. It was unfortunately cloudy half way through until well after totality.

90mm Meade refractor in high light pollution, iPhone 16

There used to be an excellent taco truck near there, too, named Big Chile. Happy ending is that they opened up a restaurant not too far away in Innsbrook with the same name.

I use a TS101 and an older Hakko FX8801 (or something similar, I don’t have it in front of me). Love both and haven’t considered an upgrade, but I don’t typically do much smt, for example, so ymmv.

Harout and I were interviewed a few weeks back on Django Chat to talk about some of the technical aspects of pinplanet and that episode came out yesterday! If that's something you're interested in, you can listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/3tOd...

pin map - pinplanet - Apps on Google Play travel tracking

I normally don't post about stuff I work on, but I'm really excited about launching the Android App for pinplanet, a travel scrapbooking app! Development started back in October and we just released it. Give it a try!
t.co/8GjEOfW4d9

If you’re on iPhone, you can download it here
t.co/pzW5QiWLsZ

@bechhof.bsky.social

They’re called Skeets, Bill. Get it together.

I’m losing my mind looking at this data.

PostgreSQL Concurrency with MVCC | Heroku Dev Center Understand how Multi Version Concurrency Control is implemented in Postgres and how it affects the design of highly concurrent applications.

I had seen a few things on the postgres MVCC before, but this article has one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen yet. I recommend it if you’re unfamiliar with the MVCC.
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/postgresql-concurrency

This inspires me to not give up in searching for better metaphors.

I have never heard of this and I politely, but firmly, decline to change.

I try to go through every one of your zines, even if I’m already familiar with the topics, because you do such good work. Can’t wait for this one!

It only took me two days to almost completely stop looking at replies after they started prioritizing blue checks. Years of behavior, gone in a couple days!

Thanks for sharing this!