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Chris @chris.blue · 31/03/2026

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/03/2026

Writes now return a `WriteHandle` that contains the sequence number of the write. This is a first step in adopting time-travel reads on SlateDB. Users can also tie sequence numbers to other identifiers such as PostgreSQL LSNs or Kafka offsets. slatedb.io/rfcs/0018-ex...

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/03/2026

SlateDB now offers a `WalReader`. Users can now write low latency write-ahead log (WAL) consumers to implement change data capture (CDC) on SlateDB databases. slatedb.io/docs/design/...

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/03/2026

Users can now write compaction filters to mutate or delete data during compaction. Importantly, this feature allows users to implement custom retention and truncation policies for their data. slatedb.io/rfcs/0017-co...

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/03/2026

SlateDB 0.11.0 is out! We had 5 new RFCs, 10 new contributors, and 3 new language bindings. This is a big release with a bunch of improvements and new features. 🧵

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Chris @chris.blue · 27/12/2025

The follower spam in this place is out of control. Very close to just abandoning this app. 100% garbage in this list. Just in the past day or two.

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Chris @chris.blue · 16/12/2025

Lots of interesting SlateDB feature requests lately: - Tiered storage for compacted SSTs (we already support tiered WAL) - Direct L0 writes (bypassing in-memory skipmap) - WiscKey key-value separation for large values - Manual snapshot isolation conflict management

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Chris @chris.blue · 11/11/2025

Day 1. This is addictive. Gotta be careful I don't overdo it. lol

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Chris @chris.blue · 05/11/2025

i think it's time..

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Chris @chris.blue · 27/10/2025

Used a leg extension machine for first time in 8 years.

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Chris @chris.blue · 29/09/2025

"We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API." "In short, LLMs are better at writing code to call MCP, than at calling MCP directly." I'm going to go live in a cave.

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Chris @chris.blue · 16/09/2025

Why, hello there! 🪟 Thanks @rbn.bsky.social :D

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Chris @chris.blue · 16/09/2025

ChatGPT5 plugin just helped me fix two different race conditions while I was refactoring some code. Today was a good day.

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Chris @chris.blue · 12/09/2025

Yep. As @ry.codes says, ChatGPT works out of the box with a bunch of SaaS API (OpenAPI+Oauth) endpoints. In fact, they literally _just_ added remote MCP support 2 days ago. 😆

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Chris @chris.blue · 10/09/2025

Under content and media in settings

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Chris @chris.blue · 07/08/2025

And now we're auto-uploading our pprofs to pprof.me from the action as well. 🤩 pprof.me/6ddd903cd82e...

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Chris @chris.blue · 27/07/2025

Experimenting with different ways to reduce distraction. So far, simply removing all icons from all iOS pages has been wildly effective.

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Chris @chris.blue · 30/06/2025

This is amazing. Codex telling me it can't commit to doing the work, and asks if I can submit the PR so it can review it.

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Chris @chris.blue · 06/06/2025

Me debugging deadlocks with eprintln.

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Chris @chris.blue · 06/06/2025

This was my prompt

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Chris @chris.blue · 04/06/2025

Hah, yea I was really resistant to this as well. But it's too convenient to ignore.

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Chris @chris.blue · 26/05/2025

Moore’s law did happen.. are you saying that its prediction was misleading? It … is reality?

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Chris @chris.blue · 24/05/2025

I decided to train for this Murph to push my time. I asked ChatGPT to come up with a plan, and it looked really good. I decided to follow it, and it worked really well! I am planning to use ChatGPT as a sounding board to plan goal-specific mesocycles going forward. Prompt, plan, and .md it made 👇

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Chris @chris.blue · 24/05/2025

✅ Murph. PR on time and my first sub-60m. 🏃‍♂️ 10:48 mile 🤜 100 pull-ups 🖐️ 200 pushups 🦵 300 squats 🏃‍♂️ 13:44 mile ⏱️ 58m Notes: 🦺 Bodyweight (no vest) 👖 168lbs ✂️ 20 partitions (Cindy) 💪 Strict pull-ups (Accidentally recorded the first run as part of the functional strength workout 🤦‍♂️)

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Chris @chris.blue · 15/05/2025

🔥 @diptanu.bsky.social has launched the cloud hosted version of Tensorlake. This looks pretty magical. The Pydantic support is so cool. Reminds me of @prefect.io's Marvin API. But Tensorlake purpose-built parsing for structured PDF (and other) documents.

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Chris @chris.blue · 12/05/2025

Its first response was exactly right. I contacted PGE and they showed up at 1am (!!). The guy told me that one of the 120v legs was out. He split it to give us full 120v to all circuits, but they needed to fix the cabling or transformer.

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Chris @chris.blue · 09/05/2025

This is cool! Query unstructured text with SQL-like grammar but using prompts for the clauses.

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Chris @chris.blue · 04/05/2025

It also looks like they're not protocol compatible. Rolling this out across the org is going to take a decade.

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/05/2025

Killer talk on LinkedIn's Northguard system (Kafka replacement). Lots of take aways from the talk, but my biggest is that it's very early still. No transactions, no object storage tiering, no idempotent producer. (AFAICT) Also, 17.5PB/day?! 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDV6...

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Chris @chris.blue · 02/05/2025

There's something in the water around CI/CD lately. Everyone seems unhappy with the current state of affairs. - bsky.app/profile/lali... - bsky.app/profile/alex... - x.com/richardartou... Seems like most of the complaints are around state caching?

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Chris @chris.blue · 26/04/2025

Guess where I was today 😆

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Chris @chris.blue · 24/04/2025

SlateDB 0.6.0 is out! github.com/slatedb/slat... Highlights include a hybrid cache (using Foyer), a lot of internal cleanup, and more groundwork for transactions. Oh, and put performance jumped ~80% for write-heavy workloads :) slatedb.io/performance/...

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Chris @chris.blue · 22/04/2025

Welcome to hell. Dealt with a lot of this with Recap. github.com/gabledata/re...

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Chris @chris.blue · 09/04/2025

This seems like the really important bit that gets at what I was asking. IIUC, using event slack rather than 0 means you can compact the diffs in the historical timeline more aggressively? Thus, minimizing state persistence at the cost of data loss (late arrivals).

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Chris @chris.blue · 08/04/2025

SlateDB is on fire right now... PR work just in the last 13 hours: - multi-get - WAL on S3 Express One Zone - non-object store manifest storage (RFC) - adding seqnum as groundwork for txns/snapshots 🤯

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Chris @chris.blue · 02/04/2025

Dog fished out all the wet food and is sitting with her nose in her kibble, pouting.

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