Weird stuff going on at the MongoDB NYC office lately....
My father’s dishonesty was frustrating and disappointing to many people, but I think he got the worst of it. Here’s a dharma talk I gave to New Paltz Zen Center and Village Zendo on May 10, 2026. emptysqua.re/blog/the-kid...
My notes from the database conference in Bangalore.
A difficult paper about a real cloud database's complex and evolving architecture.
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Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known a...
TLA+ is the gold standard for specifying distributed systems, but the syntax is a bear. This isn't a problem anymore, AI can write specs for you! But you still need to understand temporal logic. Here's a 20-minute intro to TLA+ for the LLM era: emptysqua.re/blog/intro-t...
Two days visiting Kathmandu temples, then four days walking up to Poon Hill and down through the Annapurna foothills.
