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Dexter: automatic indexer for PostgreSQL

Hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL

The 5 best punctuation marks in literature

Starfish Prime: a 1.4 megaton nuclear test in space

Skylake bug: a detective story

In-place merge sort

Fun with branch (mis-)prediction and imbalanced quicksort pivots

Fast Deterministic Selection [pdf]

What is ‘skip locked’ for in PostgreSQL 9.5? (2016)

How do whales and dolphins sleep without drowning?

This is how sperm whales sleep

Morton-order Matrices Deserve Compilers’ Support (1999) [pdf]

Frinkiac: Simpsons full text search

CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency

A whirlwind tour of rustdoc

Never use DNS TTL of zero

About ELF auxiliary vectors

EBL: a block list of spam reply-to email addresses

Rust: a Scala writer's perspective

Instapaper outage cause and recovery