~lobsters | Bookmarks (1959)

There’s something about the web and lists. At a baseline, the web is a growing compendium of knowledge and information, which requires a bit of indexing to keep straight.It’s an impulse that’s been with us since at least the time of antiquity, and followed all through the earliest periods of modernity. Which is wher...

If at the end of a conference talk, I cannot answer a question and there is nobody to my rescue, I offer to reply later in the form of a blog post.At C++ on Sea, someone asked me about the implications of dynamic linking concerning binary size. I hope I remember the question well! Let me phrase it differently: assum...

We wrote our first line of documentation for ParadeDB over one year ago. Since then, we’ve rewritten our documentation three times. Recently, we analyzed several months of community support messages and dozens of user interviews to determine what changes were the most impactful. Here’s what we learned. Why Thoughtfu...