Readit Newsjdnier commented on Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays emilysneddon.com/fran-san... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
I had not heard of Glyphs, the tool the author used. I used to use Fontographer long ago.
https://glyphsapp.com/learn/recommendation:get-started
It's a great article!
DuckDb has a new "DuckLake" catalog format that would be another candidate to test. https://ducklake.select/
jdnier commented on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/... · Posted by u/mlissner
Yesterday there was a somewhat similar DuckDB post, "Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702831
The single biggest thing that helped me speed up my queries and lower resource usage on the server was focusing on making my queries more sargable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargable
https://www.brentozar.com/blitzcache/non-sargable-predicates...
Looking up the etymology of "sargeable", I found this StackOverflow answer: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/217983
And Google explains "The term 'sargable' is a portmanteau of "Search ARGument ABLE," formed by combining the words from a SQL database context."
I didn't realize Claude was named after Claude Shannon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon