@futurebird

One of my favorite CS books is “Databases, Types, and the Relational Mode: The Third Manifesto”

I actually have a (ginormous) dead-tree copy that doesn’t fit on any shelf but it’s available in PDF format as well: https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf

(I realize I’m preaching to the choir here, but anyone who happens to find this toot gets to read one of my favorite books!)

@rk

What is it about doing database design that makes writing a manifesto to put the whole world right again (well the database design part of it) seem… so natural?

@futurebird it's not so much that I find them exciting, it's just, you know, other kinds of databases are unrelatable.

@futurebird @rk my whole philosophy has become "how I learned to stop worrying and just put binary blobs in my database" followed by "only normalize when I discover a concrete usecase"

(this is less of a joke than some folks may be comfortable with)

@amy @rk

I feel uneasy.

@futurebird it’s cumulative effect of the little jolts of joy you get when you can take a small part of the world and make it make sense.

Similar to the „I just bought sufficient storage boxes and bookshelves at Ikea for everything“ high.

See also the following meme that’s followed me through 25 years of tricking sand into counting shit:

@rk