Jason Thorsness
@JasonThorsness
@SingleStoreDB, formerly @Microsoft, Proud Dad, Husband of @KFThorsness. Go, C#, TypeScript, WASM. Building at http://jasonthorsness.com. AMA about SingleStore!
Do you keep all your old projects around, even if nobody uses them? jasonthorsness.com/30
Anyone using worktrees with Claude Code?
Just a little tool to help manage git worktrees which I finds helps with running multiple concurrent agents working independently without stomping each other. github.com/carlsverre/kos…
Interesting for query planners
Allen School professor Dan Suciu receives Best Paper Award for a novel solution to the cardinality estimation problem news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/24/all…
Claude Code made short work of that! Switch to @OpenMeteo for weather.bingo is complete and site is back up and running 🦾
Thanks to my obsessive browsing of hacker news, I have learned of a better backing API for weather dot bingo: @OpenMeteo should work nicely (also @vercel added bot blocking so I should be able to take care of those scrapers too). YESTERDAY'S WEATHER WILL LIVE AGAIN!
Thanks to my obsessive browsing of hacker news, I have learned of a better backing API for weather dot bingo: @OpenMeteo should work nicely (also @vercel added bot blocking so I should be able to take care of those scrapers too). YESTERDAY'S WEATHER WILL LIVE AGAIN!

dang my certificate expired on the API backing hn.unlurker.com and brought down the site. How many services has cert expiration slayed? root cause - never set up the auto renewal 🤦♂️
Apparently you haven’t needed a special “crossover” Ethernet cable to directly connect two computers since early 2000s 🤷♂️ TIL
Come on @KCLS, not opening Redmond library until 11:00 AM on Saturdays? Do I live within a dystopian novel from your collection?
Places where I think creatively: mowing the lawn (reel mower w/music), shower, folding clothes (w/music), driving by myself (w/music), walking alone Possible themes: impossible to use phone or internet, nobody talking to me Did people have more "think time" in ages past?
TFW you are in a full day of remote meetings but you wish you were spending the whole day optimizing the protocols that make remote meetings possible 😢
The @RepublicService garbage strike continues. Each week they have texted me: customers missed today can put out double the material at no extra charge on their next regularly scheduled service day. We are currently at 2^3 bins of garbage, I look forward to placing my ~4…