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I'm Adam Simpson and I work on open source at Grafana and live life with my wonderful wife Christi and our daughters Ellie, Ainsley, and Margot.
Exploring Hacker News by mapping and analyzing 40 million posts and comments for fun A real tour de force of data engineering. Wilson Lin fetched 40 million posts and comments from the Hacker News API (using Node.js with a custom multi-process worker p…
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying …