Chris Chalcraft

interested in linux, functional programming, data science & geophysics. also love duplicate bridge.

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@ImNotAV1rus yes please

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

we've released a CRDT extension for Postgres (experimental and open source)

why? A CRDT is a special data type used for collaboration - think of a Google Doc. The changes are merged even as people are typing simultaneously

these CRDTs are then serialized on a server and then stored in a database.

with a Postgres extension, we give the database a more "native" experience - they can be merged on the database, indexed, and searched.

In the future you should be able to do something like this:

create table blog_posts (
id uuid primary key,
title text,
body crdt default '{}'
);

then you can post the changes to the database and it will merge automatically (rather than overwriting eachother's changes)

you can use websockets (like our Realtime server) for very rapid changes between users, batching the changes to your database

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

this is a fascinating approach to AI tools @josevalim :

a chat interface, running in your browser, so it can leverage all the browser tools/telemetry

it hooks into your dev server, so it has deep integration with your framework + logs + code

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@zivergetech @alvinalexander wow that is amazing. each course has 30+ videos!

[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

i decided to try GHoShtTTy instead of warp for like 1 minute ... no search, no colored tabs, no renaming tabs? straight to the trash even before i find out what other terminal features are missing. warp CLEARS

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@rockthejvm Haskell

[Software Unscripted @sw_unscripted]

Episode 107: Language Design Deep Dive with @josevalim! 🎉

I tried something different in this episode: we were both using @zeddotdev to write example code in realtime in shared buffers, Google Docs-style, as we talked about language design. It was really fun!

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@SamRose nice. yeah all good. even elixir libraries like Nx are using polars (also rust based).

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@josevalim @bill_boz same. pls share rules file

[OpenTools @opentools]

.@AnthropicAI will support stateless remote MCP servers with “just HTTP” as transport.

We’re quite excited about this! So we gave a “lightning talk” at an MCP meetup hosted by @paulgb @CloudflareDev yesterday.

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@grhmc I used to work for a company that made an internal clone of source fourge for us to use. pretty funny to think back

[Vivek Galatage @vivekgalatage]

I am reading about Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT). And I came across these fantastic implementations by Evan Wallace!

It's interesting to see how real-world collaborative applications work with the help of these data structures and algorithms!

Links in 🧵

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@louispilfold could this be what you want - https://t.co/nC85MyVuVL tag line is own your email..

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@rawkode I have been using himitsu (https://t.co/MqzuM5FHvN) and impressed with its use and simplicity. written with the Hare programming language.

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@thorstenball @theprincessxena is bringing a lot of comedy to @flydotio .. so many references to 'capitalism objects'

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@chiroptical what do you think compared to elixir and erlang?

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@chiroptical preference for employees or moving the way down the wait-list ?

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@PJUllrich vector search for enterprise intranet

[Chris Chalcraft @cchalc]

@SamRose @zmzlois @JuliaLanguage yeah. just some general open source and available model to download and use vs using a service.