Jason Nochlin
@jasonnochlin
entrepreneur, programmer, and inventor | building something new | prev founded Teleport Data (acquired by Fivetran, 6 patents) and GaggleAMP (exited)
Regular expressions originally sparked my interest in programming. And now I’m so excited that I can do web scraping *without* them (and without XML parsers either!). @DSPyOSS + @firecrawl_dev allows me to write an agentic web scraper that can navigate to the data I want and…
I love Go, my default for new projects, but I’ve under appreciated the engineering that makes it so productive and performant. Reading deep dives on the garbage collector (quoted tweet) and the scheduler (link) have given me a whole new respect for its magic under the hood:…
The story of Go's garbage collector is one of the most remarkable engineering transformations in modern computing that I have ever studied about. When Go launched in 2009, its garbage collector would freeze applications for literal seconds, making it unusable for any serious…
This is a great summary of the history of Go’s garbage collector, and a small glimpse into why Go became so prevalent in the distributed systems space so quickly
The story of Go's garbage collector is one of the most remarkable engineering transformations in modern computing that I have ever studied about. When Go launched in 2009, its garbage collector would freeze applications for literal seconds, making it unusable for any serious…
Fun to see primeagen covering “that XOR trick” today! You can extend this “trick” to 3 or many more missing numbers using Invertible bloom filters… check out my post to learn how: nochlin.com/blog/extending…
This is a very very very good introduction to DSPy by @dbreunig Drew is defining the Anatomy of a Prompt. Write Tasks not Prompts! link below
Using bind mounts for Docker containers in development/testing makes it easy to persist, inspect and snapshot a container’s data. It’s a small but welcome enhancement to my workflow.
With or without AI, we’re still bad at estimation 😂
Okay this is pretty wild: "When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed…
Googled (feels so outdated…) a function name today, pg_total_relation_size, to get to the Postgres documentation. The first result was a perfect StackOverflow answer with a beautiful diagram exactly depicting what I wanted to know. Sad that SO is dying, but there are still…
When I was 16, my mom opened a cease-and-desist letter from a Fortune 500 company addressed to her teenage son... I’d registered a domain with their trademark to boost my referral link. I immediately deleted it, and mom endured a tense call with their attorneys who warned, “You…
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