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mgaffney··on The Slowest Flyby
> As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren’t really flying, but were falling in a slight bank.

Falling with style! Great story.

mgaffney··on Feed Wrangler is shutting down
I just got an email saying:

Thank you for being a Feed Wrangler subscriber. This service was created nine years ago when Google announced the end of Google Reader. Unfortunately, today I'm making a similar announcement about the future of Feed Wrangler.

I will be shutting down Feed Wrangler next year, on March 1, 2023. This date is one year since the last member was billed for their subscription. No further membership fees with be charged.

mgaffney··on Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
> https://danluu.com/term-latency/ This was written in 2017. It's got great information but I'm guessing most, if not all, of the terminals tested have newer versions. Just think of what 3 years of feature bloat could have done to their performance.
mgaffney··on SQL Performance Explained, the tuning book for developers, is free today
I haven't read the book but it has 5 stars with 19 reviews on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Explained-Everything-Deve...