A minimal DuckDB Wasm build for browsers and serverless environments like @cloudflare.social Workers github.com/tobilg/duckl...

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the history of the world!

My experimental single-user PDS has a name! Meet ☁️ Cirrus, the lightest PDS in the Atmosphere npm create pds@latest

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Big improvement to frameworks on Cloudflare! You can now deploy most frameworks from the CLI with zero config. No adding adapters. No editing configs. No wrangler.toml! It's all done automatically. Experimental now, with 10 frameworks supported today. developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/20...

So uh. Do you think they warned Dropbox first? Imagine getting that email.

As a systems guy who's not afraid to take a frontend ticket now and again, I'm aware that frontend is often more complex than "boxes and buttons and stylesheet". But like... this sort of thing just astounds me. A good reminder that my corner of programming doesn't have a monopoly on cool work.

Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

If you've ever used Rust, you've felt jyn's positive influence — even if you never realized it. I hope my token of recognition is just the start of jyn's invaluable work getting the funding it deserves. Folks, can we get jyn some more funding? RT 🙏 github.com/sponsors/jyn...

I’ve compiled a survey of all the different strategies for torn writes (case #1) on transactional.blog/blog/2025-to... . A different set of 2&3’s durability discussion is covered on transactional.blog/how-to-learn... too.

You ever cut a release and all of a sudden The Sorcerer's Apprentice starts playing like boss music?

A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: www.nan.fyi/database - love the explainer/interactive animation in this

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

It's great to see things shifting back to the principles we were promoting through the mid 2000s while working on RSS, Atom, Activity Streams, and ironically OpenSocial. Those efforts ended up being short circuited by Twitter and Facebook competing to own the walled gardens. We've come full circle.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Regarding goroutine & unbuffered channel interaction, found myself repeating this multiple times. Maybe it's time to write it down for reference. Early return + unbuffered send = goroutine leak. rednafi.com/go/early_ret... #golang

on type safety

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Proposed incident metric: how often at least one person says "but this is impossible" when considering a theory that turns out to be true.

“no way to prevent this” says only programming language where this regularly happens

Looks like the Google Cloud incident report is out: status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... A June 12 policy update with unintentional blank fields triggered a crash loop in Service Control code that lacked proper error handling, causing binaries to fail globally.

A SIGTERM is issued by the operating system; my process effortlessly dodge rolls it, then immediately executes a perfect parry against the MMU. Before it can recover, a null pointer has been loaded into EBX. The kernel groans at my shit.

[new blog post] Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/06/anal...

happy to finally announce it! @cloudflare.social is now backing @pkg.pr.new's data infrastructure! thank you so much everyone for supporting the tool and making this possible.

This is the one timeline where there may be future history books with a chapter on Roganomics.

The agenda for Systems Distributed is out now! Join us in Amsterdam for two days of talks, film references, and systems... distributed! systemsdistributed.com/agenda

Sounds like a pretty good start to a cozy adventure. What do you think? #indiegamedev #gamedev #gameaudio #videogamemusic

Really interesting thread here. Stored procedures can move mountains, and there are definitely ways to make them feel nicer to use. But you're not going to have fun pitching them to your team.

New article out: "Cloudflare Durable Objects are Virtual Objects"🚀 This pops up a lot and is a mindset shift from the traditional way of thinking on "creating" and "destroying" resources, so I wrote a few thoughts how to think about it. www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/dur... #DurableObjects

Wow, that's an insanely cool website: animejs.com/

Ended up writing my own little summary of the leakpocalypse in Rust

New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems. transactional.blog/b...

I'm incredibly excited to announce that we're making Hyperdrive available on the Free Plan for Cloudflare Workers! To celebrate this, we put together a deep dive on how it all actually works under the hood. Come take a look, and give Hyperdrive a try! blog.cloudflare.com/how-hyperdri...

TIL in vim, "gx" opens the URL under your cursor in your default web browser! Also works with local file paths

New blog: When eBPF stack->pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred! tanelpoder.com/posts/ebpf-p...

All the videos are up at www.hytradboi.com/2025#program now.

I’m going to do a 🧵 about making retro-style games in C/C++, and also about getting them to run in a browser.

A community member just shared this cool article about how to rig up a Worker and AWS IAM to get Hyperdrive working well with Amazon DSQL. It's always fun to see the people build cool stuff on Cloudflare! www.ai.moda/en/blog/auto...

We finished rolling out edge caching for Hyperdrive earlier this month - cached queries are now up to 10x faster. This is reflected in an average 50% decrease in session duration for *all queries*! ⚡️ just landed it in the new Cloudflare changelog: developers.cloudflare.com/changelog-ne...

A big shout-out to @jasnell.me for landing experimental QUIC support in #nodejs core 🥳 And thanks to @yagiznizipli.com and @pimterry.fyi for reviewing it. It'll be awesome if QUIC becomes stable in NOde.js 24.x LTS. github.com/nodejs/node/...

Instructions gradient descent. Eventually everything becomes python

I think this is the best thing anybody has written about ChatGPT or AI by @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-a...

This week, we'll explore how to add support for the bpf_for_each macro directly in hello-ebpf and how this unlocks writing lottery schedulers in Java with ebpf and sched-ext — without inline C! Welcome to part 18 of my hello-ebpf series: mostlynerdless.de/blog/2024/12...

Human eyes are slower than spinning hard disks source: Sankara Eye Hospital, Bangalore

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

Return-to-office (RTO) mandates lead to abnormally high employee turnover, especially for female/more senior/more skilled employees. It also takes significantly longer to fill these job vacancies after RTO mandates. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I had missed that ByteDance had a 2022 VLDB paper on their HTAP database, which combines an Aurora-like shared storage system with Apache Flink to create a shared-storage separate-engine HTAP system. The "Related Work" section is a good HTAP survey too. www.vldb.org/pvldb/v...