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99% immutable data, 1% clever pointers / building Dialog DB / he / him

Single panel excerpt from a comic strip. A distressed peasant remarks, "we should improve society somewhat." A smiling man, emerging from a nearby well, observed the peasant and remarks, "yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."
A screenshot of an x.com post dated April 21, 2026 12:55AM. The author's name is Christoffer Bjelke. The author's handle is @chribjel. The post reads: "We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks"
A portrait of Zoidberg from the animated TV show Futurama, captioned: "ITS A TRAP".
Screenshot of an excerpt from a TNW article about Attie. The excerpt reads, "The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open." In the screenshot, the phrase "powered by Anthropic's Claude" is highlighted in blue.
Screenshot from the game Final Fantasy VII Remake: wide-angle view of the city Midgar, highlighting the streams of exhaust that jet out from the "mako" reactors that surround the city on all sides.
The words, "You wouldn't edit some text," in the style of a 90s USA state influence campaign against digital media piracy.
Two panel's from the graphic novel edition of Disney's Sword in the Stone. Wart (Arthur) remarks, "What a way to pack!" after witnessing Merlin use magic to pack his bags; Merlin replies, "Don't you get any foolish ideas that magic will solve all your problems. Now, develop your brain. Knowledge, wisdom. There's the REAL power."
Screenshot from the game Chrono Trigger, showing the "end of time" level; a party containing Crono, Marle, Lucca and Robo is present while Gaspar stands by.
Instructions to draw an owl in two steps; the first step shows two circles with owl-like proportions; the second step shows the fully-illustrated owl sitting on a branch. The caption above step 1 reads, "Give users a PDS." The caption above step 2 reads, "Make it possible to build any kind of application."
A screen recording of the Blender 3D viewport, where the perspective is orbiting around a 3D model of a logo design. The logo is a stylized loop that is evocative of the letter Y.
A screenshot of a synopsis of the character Colin Robinson from the TV show What We Do in the Shadows. It reads: "Colin Robinson is a character from the TV series What We Do in the Shadows. He is an energy vampire who drains people's energy by being boring or frustrating. He lives with a group of traditional vampires and is often the source of annoyance and frustration for them."
A video recorded of a computer terminal, where a text user interface is rendered and displays details of an example Dialog database.
A video demonstrating the web View Transitions API in action on my personal website. The viewer toggles back and forth between pages, and sub-sections of the page transition into view as though no navigation occurred.
A screenshot from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion depicting a neon "tree of life" motif floating in the sky.
A screenshot of the CLI prompt of "Claude Code," an AI coding assistant. Above the prompt is a changelog followed by a call to action that reads: "With the $100/mo Max plan, use Sonnet 4 as your daily driver with predictable pricing. /upgrade to sign up"
A photo of a summary of an article by Alice Thomson in The Times. It reads: Viewpoint: Tech billionaire parenting "Melinda Gates's children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office reading books while everyone else is refreshing their homepage. The most sought-after private school in Silicon Valley, the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, bans electronic devices for the under-11s and teaches the children of eBay, Apple, Uber and Google staff to make go-karts, knit and cook. Mark Zuckerberg wants his daughters to read Dr Seuss and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids. Steve Jobs strictly limited his children's use of technology at home. It's astonishing if you think about it: the more money you make out of the tech industry, the more you appear to shield your family from its effects."
A picture of a classic Tamagotchi
Expansion of the a Rust macro (`#[derive(Clone)]`) for a type called `CompressedStorage`
A sketchy illustraiont of Ferris the crab (the unofficial mascot of the Rust programming language) looking through a window from outside and saying "Yes... Hahaha... YES!"
A modified "holy trinity" diagram where "The Father," "The Son," and "The Holy Spirit," are replaced with "The User," "The OS," and "The Agent," respectfully, and "God" is replaced with "The Web Browser."
Cropped image from the children's book, "Dragons Love Tacos," showing an illustration of a jar of salsa labeled "Totally Mild Salsa" with an asterisk footnote in small print that reads "now with spicy jalapeño peppers"
The "is this a butteryfly?" meme, where: the human character is labeled "my fraying attention"; the butterfly is covered by a headshot of Rich Hickey and labeled, "The universal relation of datoms is well suited for datalog+recusion, which has expressive power equivalent to the relational algebra behind SQL"; and, the subtitle reads, "I'm in danger."
A screen recording of a "contenteditable" text input inside a web browser. Markup within the text input is automatically highlighted as the user types into it.
A square grid of 192 6x8 pixel cells, about half of which contain text characters. Many of the characters are in the ASCII character set, but some are custom icons not represented in ASCII.
A low-resolution pixel art image of a memory card or video game cartridge, styled after the Web Assembly logo.
A screenshot of a blog post excerpt that demonstrates how Go date/time format strings work.
Photo of a vineyard on a hill in the Fall, it is the same hill as seen in the iconic "Bliss" wallpaper that shipped with the Windows XP operating system.
A Cortex Prime character sheet for a Bard
A meme image portraying users who are desperate for alternative social media getting excited by ActivityPub (a federated protocol) only to be pulled back to Facebook after they implement ActivityPub federation.
A photograph of the Handspring Visor, a PDA from the early 2000s
John Carmack tweets that he will be attending "basedcon" for the second year in a row
Diagram of proposed ATProtocol federated network topology