Thor

Thor

@thorfour.dev

Building cool things @ Polar Signals

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It's gonna be amazing when we finally achieve AGI and we ask how we can solve climate change and it just tells us we shouldn't have built all these data centers.

I'm watching The Office with my kids and I've never been more prepared for parenting

I love that the only way to watch the Packers game is paying 700$ for both YouTube TV and NFL Gamepass. Absolutely not

I'm at the stage of parenting where my children are replacing me with their friends. It's both exciting to watch and hurtful. Like why would you want to play with Timmy instead of me?! I'm way the fuck cooler than he is! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­πŸ˜­

Played Minecraft for the first time in 15 years with my kids today. What an absolute nostalgia rush

I have to say, Claude has drastically reduced the amount of cursing in my commit messages. I don't like it. People will start to think I'm professional

Sure MTTR is important. But have you considered MTTP (mean time to pancake)? It's the only metric my children track πŸ₯ž

Rust making me install cronjobs to perform cargo cleans is easily the second dumbest thing about the language (async #1)

I love going to concerts in the cities because I get to experience how fucking awesome the people of Minneapolis are

I keep saying. Nix is the right idea with the wrong execution

Justin Garrison@justingarrison.com

It’s been 10 days. I still have no idea what I’m doing. Every layer of nix only gets more confusing

Why can't we have bluesky but for git repos? Stop relying on GitHub to build a reliable service but have a distributed but discoverable service.

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We've been working on a major schema migration at @polarsignals.com that has unlocked some pretty wild improvements. Apart from a 50% (!!) reduction in storage size thanks to logical compression in vortex.dev, there has been a dramatic improvement in query performance.

I continue to be proud to be a Minnesotan, embarrassed to be an American

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