• Plain Vanilla Web ^HN

  An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better ^HN This is mostly about FSRS, which is a much improvement scheduling algorithm.
• Andy's Notes: Spaced repetition memory system ^HN

is powerlifting (and weightlifting) safe?

TL;DR: yes, it is. it's safe compared to other sports and it's especially safe compared to doing nothing.

• reservoir sampling ^HN
• north korean fake developers

• Possibly a serious possibility ^HN

sqldelight doesn't yet have a public release with kotlin's k2 compiler support. a potential alternative could be exposed @ https://www.jetbrains.com/exposed/.

though personally i like sqldelights approach of sql to code generation better than the pure code approach of exposed.

tags: tech_stack

• master tingus: strange duck and goose

my current tech_stack for most private (web) projects:

• kotlin (programming_language)
• gradle (build_system)
• postgresql, sqlite (database)
• javalin (web_framework)
• tempolin (homebrew, templating system)
• scovy (homebrew, for database access, a bit like a simpler jOOQ)
• caddy (reverse proxy, instead of nginx)

modern java practices

https://github.com/binkley/modern-java-practices ^HN

Modern Java/JVM Build Practices is an article-as-repo on building modern Java/JVM projects using Gradle and Maven, and a starter project for Java.

The focus is best build practices and project hygiene.

1BRC: The 1 Billion Row Challenge

https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/ ^{HN / github}

read one billion rows of city: temperature duples and calculate the min/max/avg. i can't say i like it as it's almost purely a test of string parsing speed and few things else.

the results are staggering though: the naive java solution with Files.lines and stream collector takes 4m13s, while the currently fastest solutions take less than 8s.

it's also interesting that graalvm takes most of the top spots.

see 1brc

an app can be a home-cooked meal

i feel like most of my apps are home-cooked meals.

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ ^HN