Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If you like chess and/or databases, you may enjoy reading about Quack-Mate, my mad attempt at writing a complete chess engine on top of DuckDB. Read the write-up and test your skills against it here: swingbit.github.io/quackmate/ 131
Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Dear DBMS, it's you who needs Integers. We need Strings. We spend way too much time optimising schemas because databases treat strings as second-class citizens. My take on this matter: swingbit.github.io/no-strings-a...swingbit.github.ioNo Strings attached ... to SQL columns 023
Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 26/12/2024It must be irritating when the excuse you use for not admitting that you've been a total failure as a parent turns out to be just part of human decency. I'd be so furious. 010
Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A great way to demonstrate how a LLM is all about form and very little about content: "let's play chess". It will show a board, and then play like a 4yo would: - losing track of who should play next - making illegal moves - randomly changing a white pawn into a block one Please, remove the I from AI 100
Reposted by Roberto CornacchiaPeter Boncz @peterabcz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024At cwi.nl/en/events/dijkstra-awards/cwi-lectures-dijkstra-fellowship we awarded the Dijkstra Fellowship to Marcin Zukowski for his contributions to DB architecture in a full room & great speakers: Allison Lee, Viktor Leis, @andypavlo.bsky.social @hannes.muehleisen.org @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social 0268
Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Listening to @andypavlo.bsky.social 's arguments about why the relational model is superior to all the past and present attempts to replace it is comforting and refreshing, and it supports all the core choices we made at Spinque. 121
Roberto Cornacchia @swingbit.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Wait, what's that? Can it be... ? Let's if I can sneak on him from behind and have closer look. 210
