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samwillis
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about
Multidisciplinary Developer, Designer and Engineer. I invent products both online and offline.

Working on sync engines, local-first, PGlite, and Tanstack DB at ElectricSQL.

sam dot willis at gmail dot com

samwillis.co.uk

Twitter: @samwillis

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From science fiction to reality – you can build difficult things with LLMs now
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:18pm PST
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
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The Bayesian Geometry of Transformer Attention
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Tues Dec 30, 2025 10:51pm PST
Attention Is Bayesian Inference
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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
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Tues Sep 9, 2025 6:52pm PST
An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB
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Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:44pm PST
Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda - Porffor can run on Lambda now
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 5:48pm PST
Show HN: TanStack DB – Reactive DB with Differential Dataflow for TanStack Query
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 10:15am PST
Efficient Streaming of Markdown in the Terminal
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 4:14pm PST
We built a real-time service that handles 20k updates per second
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Wed May 21, 2025 5:05pm PST
Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
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Wed Apr 9, 2025 5:19pm PST
Show HN: ElectricSQL Cloud – Postgres sync in 30 seconds
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Sun Apr 6, 2025 7:58am PST
Biologist whose innovation saved lives wins $3M Breakthrough prize
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 12:24am PST
Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 11:30am PST
Punch (1844) predicts LLMs: "The new patent novel writer"
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Sun Dec 15, 2024 5:48pm PST
Bad Keming – Where kerning's so bad it's keming
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Mon Nov 18, 2024 12:07pm PST
Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
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Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:50am PST
Let's unite the startup ecosystem in Europe with a standardized ‘EU Inc'
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Tues Sep 17, 2024 9:37pm PST
Hybrid Search with PostgreSQL and Pgvector
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Fri Sep 6, 2024 10:02am PST
CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices to help UK advertisers and publishers
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Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:41pm PST
NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew
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Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:47pm PST
UK's Browser and Cloud Investigation may fail to allow Web App competition
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