Quick notes and discoveries from my daily learning.
Feb 3, 2026
postgresql recursive ctes allow queries to reference themselves, enabling clean iteration for hierarchical and graph data
Feb 2, 2026
moral rules appear to function differently depending on one’s distance from power, scarcity, and consequence
Jan 30, 2026
the ottomans practice of fratricide as a tool of imperial stability
Jan 29, 2026
zoxide is a rust-powered tool that learns and predicts directory jumps, making terminal navigation way faster
Jan 28, 2026
an odd medieval account claims a battlefield was named after a grotesque act of violence involving testicles
Jan 27, 2026
the ottoman empire functioned as a synthesis of steppe, roman, and islamic traditions rather than a purely islamic state
Jan 26, 2026
tripo3d is an ai-driven 3d model generation platform with roots in open source research from vast-ai
Jan 23, 2026
qwen3-tts brings state-of-the-art, multilingual, expressive ai speech synthesis with voice design and cloning
Jan 22, 2026
newton’s decisive prism–lens–prism experiment proved that white light is composed of intrinsic colors
Jan 21, 2026
text_pattern_ops enables btree indexes to work efficiently with LIKE prefix searches
Jan 20, 2026
the scale of atoms reveals that nearly all matter is empty space
Jan 19, 2026
length() counts characters, octet_length() counts bytes and prevents hidden validation failures
Jan 15, 2026
jwt is a stateless auth mechanism that trades revocation and control for scalability
Jan 13, 2026
lazy loading fetches related data on access, eager loading fetches it upfront
Jan 12, 2026
in sql LIKE patterns, `_` matches exactly one character, not a literal underscore