Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition, by Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker (eds).

Assorted less(1) tips. If you use Vim, you already know most of those shortcuts.

Ivry by night, Jan. 2026

Speeding up NumPy with parallelism: On concurrent.futures vs. Numba’s jit. #python

Mole: Deep clean and optimize your Mac. #apple

Recent Python bookmarks:

• How uv got so fast: uv is fast because of what it doesn’t do, not because of what language it’s written in.
• profiling.sampling: statistical profiler via periodic stack sampling introduced in Python 3.15.
• Exploring Mathematics with Python: mathematics with Python as a replacement to Turbo Pascal.

/me is listening to “Albatross” by Alela Diane

Jardin Tino Rossi, Paris, Dec. 2025

Note that this updates cells live in response to previous cells that they depend on. Not pictured is that it doesn’t update cells if their dependencies haven’t changed. You can think of this as a spreadsheet-like Jupyter, where code is only rerun when necessary. — the terminal of the future

Still I don’t really like web-based notebooks.