Reading up on zstd

Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.

Turbolite is a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 using B-tree-aware page grouping and compression.

A developer documents building a custom version control system called tvc in Rust, learning git internals through reconstruction.