🪴/ Learning about databases

Finally reaching a bit further down the stack and learning about databases, SQL, and specifically MySQL, I’m documenting my journey and useful resources I’ve gone through.

Nov 30, 2024 – Caleb Jasik

I'm learning a bit more about SQL and databases.

I've worked through Julia Evan's SQL zine before:

With the accompanying playground: https://sql-playground.wizardzines.com

I'm working through a tutorial on MySQL from Golang after setting up MySQL via Docker

It's also just an interesting exercise in how Golang approaches data management from a pretty imperative data flow, which is very different from the functional approach I'm used to in TypeScript

Finished following the Golang tutorial, https://github.com/jasikpark/go-tutorial-data-access. It's just a copy of the code in the end.

Next was: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/sql/

Took a gander through a couple of Code Academy lessons next.

Also reading through how the api repo interacts with our databases at work to read real-world code 💜

Learning how many different types of joins there are was interesting, and W3Schools showed up again with the solid references: W3Schools: MySQL SQL

Planetscale has a good number of blog posts on MySQL, in addition to what seems like a thorough “MySQL for Developers” course:

Posts from blogs I follow

Does Dioxus spark joy?

Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy! Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the question: Does Dioxus spark joy? Or at the very least, whim...

via fasterthanli.meNovember 22, 2025

Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations

This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

via Schneier on SecurityOctober 23, 2026

[essays] Computing, Convivially

Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we shape them into tools for conviviality rather than means of domination?

via Essays — Sympolymathesy, by Chris KrychoJanuary 1, 2026

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