Scattered Thoughts - Jamie Brandon

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Jamie Brandon's essays and development logs on databases, programming languages, compilers, systems, AI, and personal projects.

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Homepage: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net

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Synthetic sagas #AI #Writing #Tech
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Sep 20, 2026
0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors #AI #Programming #Systems
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Sep 20, 2026
Artificial adventures #AI #Programming #Essays
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Jul 1, 2026
I'm not a cat #AI #Programming #Essays
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Jun 24, 2026
0060: SF #Programming #Systems #AI
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Jun 21, 2026
0059: NYC and SF? #Tech #Programming #AI
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Jun 5, 2026
Borrow-checking without type-checking #Programming #Rust #Systems
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Apr 22, 2026
Borrow-checking surprises #Programming #Rust #SoftwareDevelopment
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Apr 7, 2026
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links #Programming #Rust #DevLog
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Apr 7, 2026
2025 #Programming #Systems #AI
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Feb 17, 2026
0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links #Programming #Tech #Development
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Feb 17, 2026
0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, books #Programming #Databases #AI
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Dec 6, 2025
0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff #Programming #Databases #Systems
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Nov 1, 2025
SQL needed structure #Database #SQL #Programming
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Sep 4, 2025
0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, books #Programming #Databases #Systems
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Sep 2, 2025
Everyone's got one #Programming #Databases #AI
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Aug 5, 2025
Go allocation probe #GoLang #Programming #Systems
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Jul 18, 2025
Store tags after payloads #Programming #Databases #Systems
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Jul 13, 2025
0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, books #Programming #Databases #AI
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May 31, 2025
A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation #Programming #Compilers #SoftwareDevelopment
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Apr 4, 2025
0052: hytradboi videos and post-mortem, zest repo, no internet, on social media, my product is my garden, datafusion and clickhouse jits, books #Programming #Systems #AI
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Mar 14, 2025
HYTRADBOI 2025 postmortem #Programming #Databases #AI
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Mar 3, 2025
Other kinds of talks #Writing #Essays #Tech
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Feb 24, 2025
0051: hytradboi program and tickets, query compilers, decorrelation encore, books, misc #Programming #Databases #AI
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Feb 13, 2025
HYTRADBOI 2025 program and tickets #Programming #Databases #AI
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Jan 31, 2025
The missing tier for query compilers #Databases #Programming #Compilers
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Jan 12, 2025
0050: smolderingly fast b-trees, serious fun, what is the point of an online conference, it's ok to be afraid, HYTRADBOI progress, no other progress, vancouver.systems, not the incentives, llm garbage, books #Databases #Programming #AI
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Nov 25, 2024
It's ok to be afraid #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #SelfReflection
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Nov 16, 2024
What is the point of an online conference? #Tech #AI #Development
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Oct 30, 2024
Serious fun #Programming #Tech #Essays
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Oct 20, 2024
0049: hytradboi 2025, consulting, zest progress, labeled continue, bet against sql, zero-cost costs in debug, packed memory arrays, papers, books #Programming #Systems #Databases
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Oct 8, 2024
Smolderingly fast b-trees #Databases #Programming #Systems
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Oct 6, 2024
HYTRADBOI 2025 #Programming #Databases #AI
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Sep 21, 2024
0048: zest progress, zest ordering, wasm alignment, umbra papers, future of fast code, new internet, books, other stuff #Programming #Tech #OpenSource
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Aug 31, 2024
0047: babys second wasm compiler, zig honggfuzz, values can be values, dont look UB, surely you can be serious, other links, books #Programming #OpenSource #AI
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Jul 11, 2024
Baby's second wasm compiler #WebAssembly #Programming #Compiler
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Jul 9, 2024
Ruminating about mutable value semantics #Programming #Databases #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 3, 2024
0046: zest syntax, zest progress, sponsors-only repos, future compilers, error-handling implementations, suboperators, why we drive #Programming #Compilers #Databases
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May 2, 2024
Zest: syntax #Programming #Systems #Databases
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Apr 16, 2024
0045: unexplanations, business things, zest progress, internal consistency repro, why murat blogs, compiler books + papers, compiling sql to wasm, other books #Programming #Databases #Compiler
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