Rants Archive

2023

• Apr 27: 2023 04 27 librem5 and mobile linux (by Oliver Kennedy)

2022

• Mar 23: 2022 03 23 view serializability

2019

• Jun 1: A retrospective on 2 years of linux (by Oliver Kennedy)

2018

• Aug 12: Review: Purism Librem 13v3 (by Oliver Kennedy)

2016

• Dec 13: Stop the Truthiness and Just Be Wrong (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jan 1: Project Based Learning (by Oliver Kennedy)

2015

• Oct 23: In case iCloud login breaks your computer (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Aug 13: What if Databases Could Answer Incorrectly? (by Oliver Kennedy)

2013

• Oct 20: Gathering Data, Interactive Programming, and Analysis (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 7: Finding truth in the bits (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Sep 21: Why text editors are bad for programmers. (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 28: Log as a Service (Part 2 of 2) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 21: Expressiveness vs Efficiency (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 12: SIGMOD Wrapup (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 27: Log as a Service (Part 1 of 2) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 22: Laasie: Building the next generation of collaborative applications (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 16: Are you sure? (by Oliver Kennedy)
• May 24: Never tell me the odds (by Oliver Kennedy)
• May 4: Languages with first-class ORM primitives (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Apr 9: Semantics as Data (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Feb 11: The Analizerificationist (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Feb 2: Using Constraints to Define "Correctness" (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jan 22: Procedural Stories and Constraint Satisfaction (Part 2 - Plot twists) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jan 6: Procedural Stories and Constraint Satisfaction (Part 1) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jan 1: Happy New Year (by Oliver Kennedy)

2012

• Dec 23: Filesystems, Application Semantics, and Walled Gardens (Part 5) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Dec 17: Filesystems, Application Semantics, and Walled Gardens (Part 4) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Dec 10: Filesystems, Application Semantics, and Walled Gardens (Part 3) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Dec 1: Filesystems, Application Semantics, and Walled Gardens (Part 2) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Nov 24: Filesystems, Application Semantics, and Walled Gardens (Part 1) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Nov 18: Uncertainty in Distributed Computation (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Nov 11: Consistency through semantics (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Nov 4: What's Wrong With Probabilistic Databases? (Part 3) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 27: What's Wrong With Probabilistic Databases? (Part 2) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 21: What's Wrong With Probabilistic Databases? (Part 1) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 14: Intent (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 8: Collaborative web applications (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Oct 1: Those Marvelous Lifts and Exists (Part 3) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Sep 24: Those Marvelous Lifts and Exists (Part 2) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Sep 17: Those Marvelous Lifts and Exists (Part 1) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Sep 7: Optimizing AGCA (Part 3: Unification) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Sep 1: Optimizing AGCA (Part 2: Lifting Equalities) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Aug 25: The Viewlet Transform (Part 5: Hypergraph Partitioning) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Aug 20: Optimizing AGCA (Part 1: Ringing in the optimizations) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Aug 12: The Viewlet Transform (Part 4: Input Variables and Partial Materialization Continued) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Aug 6: The Viewlet Transform (Part 3: Input Variables and Partial Materialization) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 29: The Viewlet Transform (Part 2: The Naive Viewlet Transform) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 19: The Viewlet Transform (Part 1: Deltas in AGCA) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 14: AGCA Summary (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 11: DBToaster Released (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jul 8: AGCA, The language of change (Part 4: The table special) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 30: AGCA, The language of change (Part 3: The Sum Project) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 24: AGCA, The language of change (Part 2: Ringing in Change) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 16: AGCA, The language of change (Part 1: Everything is Multiplicities) (by Oliver Kennedy)
• Jun 10: DBToaster and the Viewlet Transform (by Oliver Kennedy)
• May 29: Hello world! (by Oliver Kennedy)