Links — #essays
- Back to Basics: Why We Chose Long Polling Over WebSockets (Feb 7, 2026)
Real-time updates with Postgres and HTTP long polling instead of WebSockets. Simpler, fewer moving parts.
#essays - DuckDB isn't just fast (Feb 7, 2026)
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
#essays #systems - How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (Feb 7, 2026)
A former math-phobe on how she retrained her brain through deliberate practice and repetition.
#essays - Half My Life with Perl (Feb 7, 2026)
A Perl Advent Calendar 2024 entry reflecting on decades of working with Perl.
#essays #perl - Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life (Dec 17, 2025)
We're hungry for more but have more than we need. We're hungry for less while more accumulates.
#essays - Wilted lands and wounded worlds: Nausicaa's environmental costs of war (Jun 20, 2025)
Visualizing ecological destruction through Miyazaki's lens — beyond the usual narrative and character analyses.
#essays #anime