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Shawn Martin

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F# and SQL programmer. Curious about better languages and tools.

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44.1, but perhaps I should have tried after caffeine. I didn't realize that the saturation slider was there until the second or third color. Anyway, surprisingly difficult, but fun. Will have to get my kids to try.

19.02.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Concentration camp. Private equity conversion edition?

17.02.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Data center

17.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oof, this is a depressing game. Hard to see power lines or HVAC, so I'm guessing camp.

17.02.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It could be Melania's handwriting. Many people are saying.

06.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I save Danger Zone for when I'm rubbing our cat's belly.

27.01.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Carrying Baggage Through Query Plans: Why Wide Queries Get Heavy Learn why SQL Server execution plans carry too many columns through expensive operations like sorts and hash joins, causing memory grants and slow query performance. Discover two techniques to optimiz...

@kendralittle.bsky.social kendralittle.com/2026/01/19/c... This was a great post. Thank you!

26.01.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I feel dumb. After watching this, not so much.

18.01.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had similar thoughts recently about JavaScript. First thought: Oh, nice, they added a Map since I last looked. Second thought: There's no way to do structural equality on Object keys? (β•―Β°β–‘Β°οΌ‰β•―οΈ΅ ┻━┻

18.12.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I'm not understanding something here, but I think I've found something as crazy as IEEE doubles. What's the difference between +0 and -0 states?

25.11.2025 20:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! I feel like the first 3 months were the hardest, although it really didn't feel great until they could talk to tell me what they wanted. Also, for us taking care of the second baby when the first was 2 felt 3x harder than taking care of the first alone. Mine both had colic, though.

24.11.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think that this is the simplification that I needed to hear. Seriously though, just excellent.

16.11.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As I frequently discover to my chagrin, English has even less type safety than JavaScript.

12.11.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Senility is real. I wonder if there's anyone who could have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with him to get him to retire early. I'm sure Pritzker could find somebody better to appoint. So disappointed that this is one of my senators. On the plus side I still have Duckworth.

10.11.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're also waiting for you to grow some balls. Pathetic.

10.11.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Schultz was so much more lovable, though.

18.10.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

D.C. Follies must have been the US copy of the original. I remember it making me fall off the couch laughing. Looking forward to this.

17.10.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal This is a comic about AI art.

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

07.10.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 1112 πŸ” 540 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 129

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.

- Lin Yutang

06.10.2025 05:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably haven't heard of the Greatest Of All Time System Engineer either.

25.09.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

The WebAssembly 3.0 spec is complete!

webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

This includes major features like GC, 64-bit memories, exceptions, and tail calls.

17.09.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

I don't think it's hypocrisy. Perhaps it's foresight.

18.09.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The flat earther theories I've seen plot the earth as a circle with Antarctica at the edge. I think the simplest winner against this is: How do you explain southern hemisphere flight times?

05.09.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

03.09.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 1812 πŸ” 497 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 332

If you are asking purely theoretically: Trump is on Putin's side, but he's dumb. Vance is on Putin's side and he's smart.

02.09.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It would also be nice if said UI didn't suck.

22.08.2025 11:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

e-mail.wtf

17.08.2025 17:15 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 52

Doesn't hold a candle to eastern European mayo, but it's easily the best available at grocery store near me. I wish I knew how to make better homemade.

06.06.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a good one - so simple, but I'd never thought about it before.

04.06.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0