Archive

2026

November
The Woven Language of the Waimiri Atroari (Kinja): Ethnomathematics, Radical Lucidity, and Resistance Against the Flood
Scaling pg_bio to 8.82 Million Edges: An Adaptive Multi-Worker Swarm Uncovers a 0.50 Å Halophilic Laccase, a 123-Myr Stromatolite Helicase, and Solves DUF5591 in PostgreSQL 18
PostgreSQL Extension Internals in Rust (Part 1): Crossing the C ↔ Rust FFI Boundary, MemoryContexts, varlena Layout, and Parallel Workers in pg_bio
Dethroning the Dark-Proteome Leaderboard: A 0.74 Å DUF7522 Fold (TM = 0.954) and a 123-Million-Year Cretaceous Halite DUF7124 Bridge (0.61 Å) in PostgreSQL 18
PostgreSQL as a Universal Scientific Engine: Delegating RangeFinder Pocket Intervals, GiST R-Trees, and 3D Cheminformatics to the Query Planner
Bioprospecting the Amazonian Dark Proteome in SQL: 0.39 Å 3D Enzyme Discovery for AmazonZyme's Fungal Cocktails & Terra Preta Metagenomics
Auto-Seeding the Dark Proteome: A 0.61 Å DUF1684 Disulfide-Clamped Fold (TM = 0.957) Across Divergent Halophilic Archaea
Announcing RosettaCommons Chaperone Support in pg_bio & Mining the Twilight Zone at 0.81 Å (DUF7861)
October
A Month in the Amazon: Ashes over Ponta Negra, Ancient Caverns, and the Anavilhanas Labyrinths
213,876 Edges Explored: Uncovering a 1.09 Å Red Sea Deep-Brine Metallocluster in the Dark Proteome
Introducing TeaFlon: The Pan-Organism Synthetic Biology Compiler to Cleave Forever Chemicals and Mineralize Synthetic Tooth Enamel
Auditing 500 ns Molecular Dynamics in SQL: Triterpenoids, 5-Lipoxygenase, and Cryptic Allosteric Pockets with pg_bio
From the Human Gut Archaeome to Marine Salterns: A 0.21 Å Dark Proteome Structural Lock Across Halophilic Families
De-Orphanizing Modular Secretion Machinery in the Dark Proteome: A 0.64 Å Structural Match Across Extreme Halophiles
Heatmapping the Dark Proteome: Visualizing Structural Correlations
September
Analyzing 3D Genomic Architecture and Hi-C Contact Maps with SQL
Scaling ESM-2 Protein Embeddings: Fast Cosine Similarity in PostgreSQL
How to Store and Query 3D Protein Structures in PostgreSQL (Moving Beyond PDB Files)
Mining the Dark Proteome: Legacy Code with Missing Docs
Indexing 3D Space like a Video Game: Finding Drug Targets in SQL
Writing a Hybrid Database Operator for Biology (<~>)
Why Proteins are just High-Dimensional Vectors (And how to query them in SQL)
The 27-Hour Index: Database Optimization and Indexing the Dark Proteome
TeaFlon Synthetic Biology, Part 8: 3D Genomic Architecture and Plasmid Looping
Accelerating Claude's CRISPR Discovery: Equipping AI Agents with Native Bio-Databases
Introducing pg_bio: The PostgreSQL Bioinformatics Operating System
TeaFlon Synthetic Biology, Part 7: The 419 Limit, Local Inference, and pg_bio
TeaFlon (Part 6): Upgrading to TriFusion and Quantum Validation
TeaFlon (Part 5): Turning Toxic Waste into Solid Rock
TeaFlon (Part 4): Flashing the BIOS with Plasmids and Promoters
TeaFlon (Part 3): Compiling the Code in a Physics Simulator
Learning to Let Go: Leveraging PostgreSQL's Autovacuum for IVM
TeaFlon Part 2: The Swarm Architecture and Biomineralization
TeaFlon Part 1: Designing a Synthetic Enzyme to Digest Teflon
Vibe Coding Postgres Extensions with pgrx
Spiral: An Experiment in Geometry-Aware Storage for PostgreSQL
April
MCP and Fast: Grepping SQL Code Like a Boss Part 2
Where is your mind?
No Excuses
March
Saving LLM Tokens with Fast: AST Folding & Dependency Free
Ethics & Environment in Computing
The Math Behind the Yoga SVG
The Validation Model
Learning to Breathe
The Proxy Life Trap
Per-Plan Retention with TimescaleDB Dimensions
Git Worktrees: What They Actually Are and Why They Beat Stashing
My First Time with Claude Worktrees
First week at Hubstaff

2018

Retrospective 2018