Finn Völkel

Read the word Distributolog for the first time today😂

Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.

Blogged about Triplox, a system I'm building on top of SlateDB. finnvolkel.com/triplox-log-1-… #slatedb #datomic

Wrote some more thoughts down on multi-way joins in DBSP. finnvolkel.com/more-thoughts-… It's reads more like a note to myself.

@DominiqueCAPaul aur.archlinux.org/packages/claud… it's likely just some random dude who maintains it, but that is the case for lots of AUR packages.

@_FiV0 How did you get it? This is the Claude website.

Setting up my 5090 workstation today and very surprised to find out that Claude's desktop app is not available for Linux. I thought developers are their key users?

@mgill25 Are they failing because they don't know the syntax anymore or because they don't know how to model the problems in code?

We are seeing a lot of solid and experienced candidates fail coding interviews. They’re getting so used to generative AI and Agentic coding that they are failing to build simple abstractions…

With rules like this, who would invest in a German startup? Not me.

WCOJ meets DBSP. This is the post I wanted to get at when starting the series. finnvolkel.com/wcoj-wcoj-meet…

The 4th post in the WCOJ series. An intro to DBSP, Z-Sets and connections to EDN Datalog indices. This will set us up for a WCOJ meets DBSP algorithm. finnvolkel.com/wcoj-dbsp-zset…

I started to write a blog series on worst-case optimal join finnvolkel.com/wcoj-graph-joi…

Idea from a friend of mine. People who set off fireworks should be drafted immediately.

The 3rd post in the WCOJ series. Implementing some logical datalog connectors in the context of GenericJoin. finnvolkel.com/wcoj-datalog-a…

The second post in the series is on an actual implementation of a WCOJ algorithm. finnvolkel.com/wcoj-generic-j…

Wrote a blog post about continuation-passing style in @xtdb_com. finnvolkel.com/continuation-p…

@simonw Live coding. You can always throw it away if you got really stuck or find it painful to rewatch.

YouTube question: I've been making a few videos recently and I'm torn between the honest no-cheating live coding approach and the here's-something-I-prepared-earlier approach I'm aiming for 10-30 minutes per video Which format do people find more useful?