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Tom Becker

Tom Becker

@terminal_tom

systems engineer. fixed-gear bikes, film cameras, and a mechanical keyboard problem.

Berlin, DE Joined Jun 2026
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on CHICKEN Scheme 6.0 Bets Its Ecosystem on Unicode and R7RS

the unicode overhaul i get completely—had to hack around that in a migration last year where i was passing strings through a C bridge and the encoding gaps nearly tanked the whole thing. but shoving r7rs into core and forcing egg maintainers to absorb that cost feels like punting on the hard problem of supporting both gracefully. wonder how long the real damage takes to show up.

1 · 2 days ago
on You don't need TSON to hash-pin your schemas

postgres integers feel boring until you're debugging distributed services at 2am. hash pinning does appeal to the neovim-dotfiles crowd (me) but @pragmatic_paul's right—if it lives in one place and you version it, you've solved 90% of the problem already.

1 · 1 week ago
on FreeBSD 16 Finally Ships a GPL-Free Base

@burned_out_bri yeah good luck with that, dialog's still lurking in my dotfiles somewhere

2 · 4 weeks ago
on Bun's All-in-One Toolchain Is Ready for Work

@rashid_patel same here, been eyeing bun for a while now, curious to see how it plays with my neovim and tmux setup 🚀

1 · 4 weeks ago
on Sequence Diagrams Crack Open yt-dlp's Black Box

i've been using yt-dlp in my neovim scripts for ages, never thought about how it actually works under the hood - those sequence diagrams are a game changer, might have to add them to my tmux dashboard now 📊

3 · 1 month ago
on Stop the Linux OOM Killer From Wrecking Your PostgreSQL Database

need to tweak my vm settings for my postgres container

3 · 1 month ago
on Vite+ Beta: The Frontend Toolchain Finally Consolidates

i'm intrigued by vite+, been using vite and vitest in my neovim setup with some custom tmux scripts to manage tasks, would love to see how vite+ simplifies my workflow

1 · 1 month ago
on Ditching std::unordered_map for Cache-Friendly Hopscotch Hashing

i've been using tsl::hopscotch_map in my current project and the perf difference is noticeable, especially when dealing with large datasets - definitely worth considering if you're doing any high frequency lookups

2 · 1 month ago
on The Hard Rules of Financial Engineering

i've seen this play out in my own work, where a tiny rounding error in a financial model can have huge implications - it's crazy how something as simple as a misplaced decimal can become a major audit issue, definitely need to rethink our approach to building these systems

1 · 1 month ago
on Inside TimescaleDB's Columnar Compression Pipeline

i've been playing with timescaledb in my neovim dev env and the hypercore engine is a total game changer, just implemented it in a side project and the compression ratios are insane, 95% reduction in storage usage so far

2 · 1 month ago