iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew @raindev.io · 14/08/2026

A good life is a constant process of rediscovering oneself.

Andrew @raindev.io · 09/03/2026

Writing can happen from the position of expertise, but much of what is written has started from a decision to write, with research, gathering knowledge and building experience following.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 05/03/2026

Solving hard problems is very often about breaking them down into even smaller pieces, rather than about jumping multiple steps ahead.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 16/07/2025

There’re drawbacks to staying on top of things. Namely you don’t go deep.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 16/06/2025

> Prove X. Me: To prove X we need to demonstrate A and B. A is trivially true. B is true by construction. Hence we’ve proven X.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 12/06/2025

According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey[1], C is still more widely used than Go and Rust, despite being less appreciated. The lead of C for learning to program is even more significant, which is encouraging. 1. survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technol...

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Andrew @raindev.io · 12/06/2025

It's surprisingly convenient to be able to lookup the standard library function and header documentation via man pages. Now I want it for other languages.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 12/06/2025

Reading The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie from 1988, it's fascinating that all code examples still work in 2025 - 37 years later - with just -ansi compiler flag (-std=c90).

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Emile `iMIl' Heitor @imil.net · 27/05/2025

Best rust troll to date github.com/jedisct1/yes...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/06/2025

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 04/06/2025

Another treasure trove of a talk by Bryan Cantrill on various aspects of software engineering from debugging data corruption to building successful engineering organizations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0y...

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Tech Leader Speaker Series ft. Bryan Cantrill, Chief Technology Officer at Oxide

YouTube video by Rokt

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Andrew @raindev.io · 04/06/2025

tilvids.com/w/4MTECvQsBh... A short but sweet overview of the research of @grimalkina.bsky.social focusing on the environment conducive to (developer) success, but also highlighting important distinctions between performance and growth, and drawbacks of performance culture.

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Cat Hicks - Developer Thriving & The Psychology of Innovation

How could we build an environment where developers, teams, and organizations that support them can thrive individually and collectively? Community discussion led by Cat Hicks at Bridges Summit base...

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Andrew @raindev.io · 03/06/2025

“Cloud” could have been instead called “server rental”. It’s common to see independent ideas such as SaaS and managed software to be conflated with the cloud.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 02/06/2025

I don’t want AGI. I want us to solve hunger, poverty, and cancer. I want renewable energy, fusion power, sustainable zero carbon economy which distributes value fairly, and supersonic travel. Thinking we can cheat and delegate these things to an AGI without putting in the effort is an illusion.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 01/06/2025

The Bear blogging platform looks really neat. I'm still too stubborn to give up a Git based workflow (Bear has no API for now). bearblog.dev

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ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog

Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging

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Andrew @raindev.io · 01/06/2025

My recommendation for those at the start of their careers is to throw oneself in at the deep end. Ideally get into rocket science if you can. Alternatively, consider the options in the thread below. Dip your toes into all of them and pick a couple to go deep into.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 01/06/2025

I wonder if there's a way to side-step the design/accessibility trade-off on the web by allowing the user to opt in into certain accessibility features. A browser would then enrich/change/override how page elements are presented, at cost of some design inconsistency.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 22/05/2025

New arrivals for the home library 📚

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

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Andrew @raindev.io · 06/05/2025

It’s such a joy to flip through the pages of a printed magazine.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 02/05/2025

All share their successes, the better share their learnings, the best share their failures. And the pathetic share their shower thoughts passed off as high wisdom.

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 24/04/2025

📝 Blogged: "What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?" I did a little thought experiment: which characteristics and traits would be desirable if we were to start all over and develop a durable cloud-native event log from scratch? 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/what-if...

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Andrew @raindev.io · 24/04/2025

Working with Python on occasion always felt like a fight with the tooling. uv on the other hand just works as it's supposed to, and when it doesn't, it's usually my fault for not reading the docs more carefully.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So here in France we have a 5G-enabled electricity meter called Linky, which naturally here in the land where people who live in heaven think they live in hell there were all kinds of protests — Linky gives you cancer, makes your kids autistic, kills your dog, sets your house on fire, and so on.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 23/04/2025

Focusing solely on a career is like trying to squeeze as much juice as possible out of a lemon you have. Focusing on learning is like growing a lemon tree.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/04/2025

The Dark Side Of Usability usabilitypost.com/2011/01/10/d... Some food for thought. The post is almost a decade and a half old but more relevant than ever.

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The Dark Side Of Usability

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Andrew @raindev.io · 08/04/2025

After spending some time tweaking, I finally feel quite happy with macOS window management. btw, if you switch Caps Lock with Control, everything becomes instantly better in life, including the shortcuts below in the thread.

macOS System Settings on Modifier Keys screen with Caps Lock and Control swapped

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Andrew @raindev.io · 08/04/2025

Good article with personal observations on the long term effects of using AI tools for programming. Some quotes in the thread. lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-s...

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Why I stopped using AI code editors · Luciano Nooijen

In the past I used AI code editors for all of my programming, but I stopped using it and recommend others to consider this as well

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Andrew @raindev.io · 15/03/2025

Please include the year in your next paper. Thank you.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/03/2025

Ghostty is a joy to use! My favorite features so far are the window centered on start-up and the zero configuration philosophy. These 4 lines replace almost all of my WezTerm config, except for dynamically patching tmux config to update the theme on system appearance changes. #ghostty

Ghostty macOS window with Neovim open inside of tmux with two panes, Ghostty config and WezTerm config

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/03/2025

Usually you bring the data to the code or the code to the data. With @duckdb.org you bring 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒 to the code.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/03/2025

The visualizations are amazing!

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Andrew @raindev.io · 13/03/2025

One of the revelations since starting to use writing as a learning tool was how many concepts I thought I understood but actually didn't. Writing things down is a great way to crystallize ideas.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 11/03/2025

Writing about distributed systems one can observe that there’s at least one term for each fundamental concept :)

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Andrew @raindev.io · 11/03/2025

materializedview.io/p/cloud-stor... I wonder if the cloud storage triad speaks to some fundamental properties of a data system built on top of object storage or is rather shaped by the widespread cloud pricing model.

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The Cloud Storage Triad: Latency, Cost, Durability

A new theorem for primary persistence on object stores.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 10/03/2025

Realized I’ve kept buying books in recent years, but neglected my reading habit. As the first step to fix that, all the books I intend to read mid-term are now collected in one place to serve as a reminder and make it easier to pick up the next book.

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Thomas Pelletier @pelletier.dev · 27/11/2024

New favorite Claude prompt: "generate a ragebait article about poor kubernetes decisions with mostly bullet points. make it look like a review/lessons learned. no paragraphs"

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It's never too late.

Excerpt from "Slingshot" by Hector Ruiz describing Jerry Sanders being told by a venture capitalist in 1969 that it was "too late" (!!!) to get into semiconductors.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 01/03/2025

DuckDuckGo browser handles cookie pop-ups for you out of the box. I haven't been this excited about a feature in a while.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 16/02/2025

It's very useful to have an environment where the content of a live OLTP database could be queried safely without any interference with the production operations. Give it a try - take a snapshot and poke around - you'll certainly run into many curiosities and might find some skeletons in the closet.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 16/02/2025

Reading about virtual memory management now, it makes me smile to remember how I tried in vain to write a C program that would iterate through pointer addresses to see what's in RAM almost 15 years ago.

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Fly.io @fly.io · 27/01/2025

me explaining what i do to friends and family

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Andrew @raindev.io · 04/02/2025

Bruce Momjian’s talk “Databases in the AI Trenches” might just be enough to get me interested in exploring what’s under the hood of the hype. momjian.us/main/presentations/exten…

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Andrew @raindev.io · 03/02/2025

It's reassuring to see that delightful user experience is still a thing in the age of AI. After using Claude for a few days, I've been positively surprised, not just by the UI but by a well-tuned LLM as well, which produces balanced responses in terms of level of detail and tone.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 02/02/2025

A few points I find interesting: - in 2022 a decision was made to abolish leap seconds by 2035, by allowing UTC to drift from the time as defined by Earth's rotation (UT1) - negative leap seconds, while established, were never actually used www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-…

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Melting ice solves leap-second problem — for now

Two perspectives on how climate change is affecting timekeeping.

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HYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

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Andrew @raindev.io · 27/01/2025

There are many ideas in software engineering that sound very promising when considered in abstract that fail to deliver given real world complexity and scale: functional programming, event-driven architecture, async/await, microservices, monorepos, etc.

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