John the Toymaker
@MakrOfAdventure
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Working on NoSQL since 1995. Distinguished Engineer at MongoDB. For fun I develop education experiences with robots and critters.
Hamilton, Scotland
Joined April 2008
RT @FranckPachot: @rauchg If vibe coding becomes a reality, no one will write traditional code anymore, and all critical applications will….
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To control a Halloween display I ordered one of my favourite @Raspberry_Pi 's a 3A - unfortunately I didnt realise the 1+ existed and ordered one of them instead by accident , it's a sad little beast.
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@Raspberry_Pi Got help from the expert @aallan , seems it can if the HDMI device is out of spec but it shouldn't. Had to use usb power to boot but then on that monitor it stayed on.
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I'm a bit surprised and confused. Was playing video from a @Raspberry_Pi 3b over hdmi, unplugged power and it kept running being powered from the HDMI port, how long has that been possible?.
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I'm the author & host of a very popular simple online desktop calculator emulator. For years it's been a top choice of calculator in a browser. I'm delighted to announce I've updated it to use an LLM for it's calculations rather than using client side JS. New code is way simpler.
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I make my living explaining to people how this applies to them and their database. Great summary.
The art of truly understanding databases boils down to the following principles. You cannot do much with data on disk until you read it to memory. You cannot do much with data in memory until you read it to the CPU cache and registers. Reading from disk (SSD) is 2000.
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MongoDB is a document database. In many ways similar to a. RDBMS but with Arrays and Maps as native data types you can persist objects in a single row. It's also ORM first than SQL first for development.
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Can we please stop using the term NoSQL. Like "foreigner" it's used almost as a slur to define what something is not and tells you nothing about what something is. There are multiple types of database which are not traditional RDBMS, they are not all similar to each other.
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RT @ethansteininger: @MongoDB just announced that Search and VectorSearch (KNN) are available in community. this means you can run it entir….
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So true. @mjasay.
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
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What's cool and interesting projects are folks working on that are not AI, Crypto or DevOps?.
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Software engineers are terrible at estimating time, so if someone claims to be a prompt engineer I assume they cannot be trusted.
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Does this exist? Or is there any demand for a JS browser framework specifically to make fixes width from, fixed size , AS400/Unix style terminal based UIs. Like curses but in a browser.
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If you modernise your enterprise software. Should you take frontend cues from modern web software or keep the efficiency and information density of the terminal? Maybe just upgrade the backend?.
tech is great but worth noting that Costco is doing $240b in annual sales and uses this for inventory management
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What the . The car park at Glasgow SEC doesn't accept mastercard? Who doesn't take MasterCard? @GlasgowCC.
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I don't normally work at the weekends, at least not the sitting down typing on a laptop sort of work but I have a work project for @MongoDB so interesting right now that I actively want to use my Saturday morning to progress it to MVP.
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In response to post from someone bemoaning grade inflation and saying when they started Senior engineers were like Gandalf. This is a hilarious response.
@_RustyRooster Gandalf was definitely a Staff engineer.
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Should I learn #jquery this year? I went from JS to Angular 1 then Vue and Vue 2 but I don't want to learn Vue 3, React or anything else that won't be here in 5 years.
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