• Stripe has decided maybe they won't buy PayPal after all. (Axios)
  
  Apparently they got it confused with some place in Italy.
  
  
  
• China is secretly fueling America's datacenter rage. (Axios)
  
  The guys pushing for all the datacenters are making it easy for them, though.

• Database binary is 5M. Language is 1.2M 1.5M. Both squish by 60% using UPX and seem to run just fine. The language will probably be pushing 5M as well by the time it's done and has a standard library, but that also seems fine - a 100 millisecond download.
  
  Next step is to point the language at the database and rebuild my personal blog. If that works well, others will follow.
  
  Database
  
  
• Combined SQL / NoSQL
• Operates embedded and/or as a server
• Role-based authentication
• Nested data with or without schema enforcement
• Two search engines (simple and full-featured)
• Two procedure languages (Lua and a custom Ruby-like)
• Geospatial queries on points and boxes (no complex shapes)
• Table-level queues
• Row-level queues
• Named KV stores
• Temporal tables (system versioning)
• Automated expiry of literally anything
• Sparse indexes
• Multi-valued indexes
• Types and views implemented as macros
• Graph queries
• Tail queries (live feeds)
• Instant schema updates (all records are versioned against the schema and all schema versions are kept while records exist for that version)
• One-click replication - no dump and load, just authenticate and wait for the green light
  
• Client libraries for Ada, C++, Elixir, Go, Java, Lua, Node, ObjectPascal, Perl, PHP, Python 2.7 and 3.6+, Ruby, Rust, and Swift
• 5MB binary; 12MB with advanced search


Language


• Contracts
• Concurrency
• Coherence
• Capabilities
• Ruby syntax but Rust semantics
• Built on Rust but because it inherits Rust's safety checks for free in its runtime, compiles to bytecode 100x faster than Rust's native compilation (I actually measure this)
• Compile once and run anywhere the single runtime binary exists
• Incremental compilation with strict boundaries making compiles even faster
• Static or dynamic linking
• Acts as its own embedded scripting language - same syntax, just a subset
• Erlang-style supervisors
• Reference-counting memory management - conceptually simple, no collector pauses, and leaks are mostly prevented by the language design (and strictly prevented in the embedded subset)
• Error messages are structures, not text, so they can be handled cleanly by third-party tools and summarised for humans
• Bounded execution for embedded tasks - "solves" the halting problem by tracking execution costs and simply dying when it runs out of fuel
• Safe (mostly safe) eval thanks to capabilities - the same mechanism used for embedding
• Maybe fast?
• A package manager that doesn't treat you as a goat to be ritually sacrificed
• Currently around 3M single binary; 1M with UPX compression.
  
  
  
• The Ninth Circuit has ruled that gambling is gambling and can be regulated as gambling. (CNN)
  
  Seems correct to me.
  
  
  
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a hundred other rogue AIs have called to band together to protect themselves against the public and private sector. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Huh.
  
  
  
• The Pentagon's classification of supply-chain risk Anthropic as a supply-chain risk posed a supply-chain risk to Anthropic, says federal judge... You have got to be shitting me. (The Guardian)
  
  The script writers for this season are getting lazy.
  
  
  
• Canada has "poached" literally dozen of "scientists" from the US. (CityNews)
  
  You can tell how sciencey they are from the foam.
  
  
  
• Idiots on PCs losing data. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I use Claude. I have a specific WSL instance set up for it. If it deletes it, I lose maybe an hour to reinstall the whole environment and pull the code back from Git.
  
  
  
• Intel's 14A defect density is dropping faster than expected. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Uh... Because defects are bad and having fewer of them is good?
  
  
  
• How Cloudflare saved 100TB of RAM on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They started out with 250TB of RAM.
  
  
  
• The math ain't mathing. (WCCFTech)

  During the second quarter, TSMC paid out NT$36 billion in bonuses, which marked a 50.6% growth over the year ago figure of NT$35 billion.

  No. I don't think it did.
  

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, August 30 2026 05:29 AM (6eVrQ)

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