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TL;DR - RegreSQL 1.0 tested that your queries return the right rows. 2.0 tests that they return them the right way, and it does the checking against production's real statistics instead of your empty dev database, which lies. A migration...
The final chapter of the Greek butterflying holiday, covering 23~25th June.Reviewing all these photos makes me realise how hard Sotiris (and Greenwings) worked to put together an interesting and diverse set of daily trips. There were no...
Orphans of the Tide is an odd YA novel, concerning the residents of an island City who fear the periodical resurgence of the Enemy who takes over a person to be his Vessel for rebirth. This tale follows Ellie, an independent young orphan...
Imagine a person listening to a lecture or presentation on a difficult topic outside their field repeatedly. They do this so often in fact that they memorize all the words. Moreover, they do that so well that they eventually volunteer to...
I'm not a technical person. The circles I run in are. My wife works in tech, a lot of her/my friends are developers, programmers. I frequent the indieweb with all its 'roll your own' ethos. Its git and npm and bash that give me full-body...
Original release date: July 3, 2026 The premise: In neo-noir style, a poor, but cunning Marge Bouvier travels to Italy to retrieve Agnes Skinner’s wealthy, layabout son Seymour. She quickly finds herself ingratiated into Skinner’s lavish...
Every time I go get coffee around West Village, I feel like I’m in a different city. The contrast between our quiet neighborhood with the trees and birds in upper Manhattan and this is striking and fun. 📷
I don't trust our new robot overlords at all. I also don't fully believe that agents are out there dropping production databases without some serious coercion to do so. And while I don't trust the robots, I trust myself only a trivial...
Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/JIU5URI-evk🎙️ The 18 Times in a Row EditionWelcome to What The Fudge podcast for July 12, 2026. 18 times in a row, y’all!This week’s updates highlight a clear trend: while innovation in model...
I'll begin with my truth, I really like Werner Herzog. He is an interesting chap, who has made some outstanding films and documentaries, including my absolute favourite. I've read a number of his books, and enjoy hearing his 'voice' lift...
Nitsuh Abebe’s latest “On Language” column (archived; see this post) is on the word frictionless, which is not particularly interesting in and of itself; I was skimming along: “Frictionless” used to be an intensely physical word: It...
Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignore previous information or new information. How much...
As temperatures soar across Britain I went looking for cool spots in my part of East London. After abandoning the extreme heat of the Tube I sought refuge in the London Olympic Park walking beside the River Lea before walking along the...
I’ve been wanting to create a more ‘painterly’ art style for some of my Blender projects for a while now, and I’m happy to have achieved something to my liking so far! Today I am happy to show you this bear – which I actually created a...