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2025-06-20 : Building Postgres on macOS

Of course it wasn't going to be straightforward

2025-06-19 : Finding when a line was deleted

git-blame --reverse and git log come to the rescue

2025-06-16 : What Actually Destroys Employment: A Multifaceted Analysis

Technology alone is not to blame for loss of jobs

2025-05-31 : Compile-time vs. runtime with C++ templates

Keeping track of what happens when can be tricky

2025-04-04 : SQL query planning

The elegant ideas that made RDBMS possible

2025-03-01 : Generating classes in Clojure

JVM adventures await!

2025-02-06 : Better angels of our tariffs

The peculiar demonization a mundane economic tool

2024-12-12 : All the wrong numbers

Economic data often give false impressions

2024-11-15 : The price of incoherence

The Democratic coalition is increasingly unworkable

2024-10-08 : The many definitions of retirement

Discussing the "retirement age" requires context