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> Fixed a crash when starting Inkscape with a graphics tablet plugged in Great news! Having to reconnect the USB cable each time is no fun.

Also in this vein is Shaper, a SQL-first approach for handling entire dashboards (and powered by DuckDB): https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/getting-started/

In case anyone else was curious about the screensaver mentioned, I couldn't find any screenshots so just got Claude to cook up an HTML port: https://refset.github.io/xgrav-canvas-j…

I work on https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb which is broadly Postgres-compatible with a few key SQL extensions (SQL:2011 bitemporal tables + immutability, first-class nested data, pipel…

Neat examples, and I agree that extending SQL like this has real potential. Another project along very similar lines is https://github.com/ryrobes/larsql

> other requirements In my experience, usually along the lines of "what was the state of the world?" (valid-time as-of query) instead of "what was the state of the database?" (syst…

Could Metabase be a better fit?

> It would be interesting if someone purpose-built a relation and rules database for compilers While not quite in rustc proper, along these lines: https://github.com/rust-lang/chal…

> it's kind of frustrating that XTDB has to be its own top-level database instead of a storage engine or plugin for another. XTDB's core competence is its approach to temporal row …

Recently released Clojure implementation of the same pattern: https://github.com/eerohele/muutos

SierraDB looks closer to Rama than XTDB https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2024/01/09/everything-wrong-w... XTDB doesn't currently solve the problems of user-defined projections (via s…

Aka 'bitemporal' - https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consisten...

> which is more efficient than "hacking it" with recursive queries in a relational db It seems to me that the way recursive CTEs were originally defined is the biggest reason that …

For anyone else curious about what a practical loop implementation might look like, Steve Yegge YOLO-bootstrapped his 'Efrit' project using a few lines of Elisp: https://github.com…

This is close: https://panr.github.io/hugo-theme-terminal-demo/

That's the joke (!)

Unfortunately not, I've just had this one opened in my browser for ages as a reminder (after seeing it on HN IIRC) and recognised it again in the OP instantly :)

Great seeing another example here of The Monospace Web design theme https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/