cartero Thursday, August 13, 2026 · No. 25967
AI Psychosis

Technofascism

Haskell

Accelerate

GPU and Parallel Computing

Futhark by Example

Formal Methods

Programming Z3

PostgreSQL

Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: bgwriter_delay and bgwriter_flush_after

The B cluster shifts gears: from one-off oddities to the background writer parameters, which span four GUCs. We do the first two as a pair because bgwriter_delay introduces the process at all, and bgwriter_flush_after slots cleanly into the writeback tour from backend_flush_after. What the backgr…

xAI

Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…

SQLite

BlazeDB: a Swift-native embedded database with WAL crash recovery + encrypted persistence

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on BlazeDB, a Swift-native embedded database focused on local app storage and developer tooling workflows. It’s open sourced with a MIT license. Main goals were: \\- Swift-native API surface \\- WAL-backed crash recovery \\- Encrypted persistence (AES-GCM) \\- Custom binary protocol (BlazeBinary) \\- Reactive SwiftUI integration \\- Typed query DSL \\- Local-first/offline-friendly architecture \\- Document Store A lot of the project started because I wante...