5NF and Database Design https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/
Database Design Book
5NF and Database Design
Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com, (~3900 words)
One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically,…
One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically,…
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/
Google
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Skills in Chrome let you discover, save and remix AI workflows — and repeat them instantly.
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer,
Guide.world: A compendium of travel guides https://guide.world/
guide.world
Guide.world travel writing
H.R.8250 – To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info
Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel) https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/#3/63.11/-120.59
Repensar Guernica: una investigación sobre la obra-icono de Picasso
Guernica Gigapíxel - Repensar Guernica
Una investigación sobre Guernica de Pablo Picasso llevada a cabo por el Museo Reina Sofía y compuesta por alrededor de 2000 documentos.
A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-years-of-not-knowing-what-youre-testing/
Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider https://calpaterson.com/deps.html
calpaterson.com
Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks
Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013) https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1
Hypirion
Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1
Ever wondered how Clojure's persistent vector actually works? This is part 1 of a blog series which aims to explain them.
Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/not-all-elementary/
Stylewarning
Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
a personal blog
Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/
Kamila Szewczyk
Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16.
The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, *Enlightenment E16*, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has…
Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414237496/en/Amazon-to-Acquire-Globalstar-and-Expand-Amazon-Leo-Satellite-Network
Businesswire
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar and Expand Amazon Leo Satellite Network
Today Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Globalstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSAT) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazo...
My adventure in designing API keys https://vjay15.github.io/blog/apikeys/
Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) https://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals https://steveblank.com/2024/04/16/founders-need-to-be-ruthless-when-chasing-deals/
Steve Blank
Steve Blank Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be th…
Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm