Weekly #29 (2026)

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:05:00 +0530

SQLite: use GLOB instead of LIKE to hit the PK index

Thanks to a fix by @mtelvers to Opam Repository CI, I learnt the difference between using LIKE and GLOB for fields with a primary key index.

The TL;DR is that LIKE is case-insensitive by default and cannot make use of an index where as GLOB which is case-sensitive would.

Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

As a part of my continuing endeavor to make sense of what programming (at work and outside of it) means to me in the age of LLM assisted or agentic programming, I decided to spend some time carefully reading the paper Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur.

I’m aware of the ideas presented in this paper at a high level, thanks to discussions with Shon over the past year or so. But, I figured it’s time to read the paper thoroughly and reflect on it more carefully. I’ve read through the first two sections of it, and hope to continue over the course of this week.

The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin

I enjoyed reading this post on why the warm sensation from being the Sun isn’t exactly what causes sunburn. I guess it calls for a mandatory watching/listening of Wear Sunscreen.

Restaurant: Tuoi Moi

We went to Tuoi Moi last night. It is a small cozy place in Humayunpur. The food was lovely, too. We especially loved the chilli oil and even bought some to use at home.

Enola Holmes 3

We (wife and I) watched Enola Holmes 3 on OTT. We enjoyed Millie Bobby Brown’s “‘Tis I” in the previous editions of the movie and looks like some of the other characters also picked it up this time around!

Movie on Noetic Nought