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Preston Thorpe
@PThorpe92
recently liberated programmer. Databasemaxxing @tursodatabase github.com/PThorpe92 @arurue ❤️
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Jul 8
    Apologies to anyone I have seemingly un-followed (some multiple times). Every day I find a couple accounts that I know for a fact that I had followed and it shows me as not following, and I have to re-follow
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Aug 20, 2025
    Zed writing a Rust GUI framework, and now a database, all to build a code editor. In a world of electron apps... it just makes me happy that this exists. zed.dev/blog/sequoia-b…
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 16, 2025
    no context needed
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Aug 9, 2025
    The buffer pool of tursodb is now backed by Arenas that are registered with io_uring for `Fixed` opcode support. Now the pool can return contiguous buffers used for checkpointing and pwritev calls with 10s-100s of iovecs can be coalesced down to a single IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 31, 2025
    I was so excited to work on the storage engine after being stuck in translation/query planning land for many weeks. Now cache spilling is absolutely kicking my ass... nice.
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 31, 2025
    Replying to @Sal7one
    8 months? 3.5 yrs 🤓
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    Preston Thorpe
    @PThorpe92
    Oct 30, 2025
    I know Diego has been waiting forever for the right time to drop this joke.. (he admitted it 😁)
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    Yawd
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    Oct 30, 2025
    Preston is, non ironically, the most locked in person I've ever meet. And such a nice guy
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 30, 2025
    Replying to @JohnAndrewOwen @aarondfrancis and @tursodatabase
    Well I am here for possession of marijuana from 2013 when I was 20 years old. And I pay 10% of my gross income in rent, and neither the food or healthcare are good. Definitely don't recommend crime or prison to anyone, it's not as glamorous as you seem to be imagining it.
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 24, 2025
    Legitimately two of my favorite people in tech.
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    Aaron Francis
    @aarondfrancis
    Oct 23, 2025
    It's a crossover hit! A database that understands accounting! I talked with @jorandirkgreef about building @TigerBeetleDB: the financial transactions database. What if your DB understood debits and credits? And could do a million transactions a second! youtu.be/9oyhNDv882U
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Nov 6, 2025
    Bespoke, hand-rolled binary protocol go brrrrrr
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Oct 18, 2025
    Pretty excited about getting to implement full-text-search for tursodb. Will be FTS5 compatible but native (not an extension), which means we can have some cool custom syntax. Going to be using Tantivy and will be looking for some inspiration from awesome projects like @paradedb
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    Preston Thorpe
    @PThorpe92
    Oct 16, 2025
    Replying to @HSVSphere
    I've been developing on arch for years with no issues... at least no issues that couldn't be fixed with 5 mins a google search in the worst case. You don't have to contribute to the smug toxicity that people already heavily criticize the linux community for, let people enjoy it.
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    Preston Thorpe
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    Nov 7, 2025
    Replying to @ThePrimeagen
    Still waiting on ours :)
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    Preston Thorpe
    @PThorpe92
    Jun 28, 2025
    my dude @EigenVectorizer is killing it, implementing sqlite's intelligent record comparison for github.com/tursodatabase/… and lazy record parsing in the same PR.
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    GitHub - tursodatabase/turso: Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.
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