Luis Orduz
@luord
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Software engineer, aspiring writer, movie watcher and music listener. I read, occasionally write, and share articles about software engineering.
Colombia
Joined September 2010
What if the most popular databases were designed today. https://t.co/FxjVSNOhPO
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The 49ers offense is again the most fun to watch in the league, like it was in 2023 and parts of 2024. Even if the run is not as explosive, the pass has become somehow even more effective. Purdy showed in this #SFvsIND game his nigh flawless skill as a passer, and overall QB.
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Perhaps Sturgeon's Law works both ways: even if the slope increases, the 90% ratio holds, and so the amount of quality work also increases. https://t.co/oOtvEMwNCP
calnewport.com
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
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Working fast means more iteration, more feedback and more potential improvement. https://t.co/iF0k4dGMNc
lemire.me
The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser....
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Pretty cool development story on the cycle of a contribution: From problem, to bandaid, to proper solution. https://t.co/lfosJfR3Gj
engineering.zalando.com
How we contributed two features to Debezium to solve WAL growth and enable safer logical replication for our event streaming infrastructure
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It's a good thing the "Avatar" movies are so forgettable, and I didn't rewatch either of the first two before watching "Fire and Ash", otherwise I might have found it way more boring and repetitive than I actually did. As it is, I was entertained.
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Life is in the imperfections. https://t.co/RKiPm10nNL
collabfund.com
People often ask me where I get ideas for this Substack.
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Innovation often drives thinking. Experimentation is the path to new theories and hypotheses. https://t.co/emgZCTKsR2
lemire.me
“We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper insight than it seems. Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happens before...
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That's the kind of rushing touchdown by a RB where you say "man, this team's QB is special". I hope nothing stops Drake Maye from playing football for at least 10 years.
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Oh yes, the Bills for sure can do better for Josh Allen than Sean McDermott.
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I've worked on my share of bad codebases, but nothing quite like this. https://t.co/XC7jn03ycv
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Most posts by coders about their switch from coding to prompting read similar: "productivity gains [...] engineers still matter". I'm often left feeling they didn't enjoy coding to begin with, and wondering if the production increase could be from now doing something they do like
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If a single source of truth exists, multiple, even duplicate, representations of that data are fine. As long as they remain consistent with that source. https://t.co/VTdUMX9gKJ
morling.dev
Historically, data management systems have been built around the notion of pull queries: users query data which, for instance, is stored in tables in an RDBMS, Parquet files in a data lake, or a …
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A good approximation that's easier for you to make is often enough. https://t.co/eXLan093rg
johndcook.com
Changing a problem to one you can solve, illustrated with music.
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