Cassandra Software Engineer @ Apple, youth baseball/basketball/golf coach, INTP
Nashville, TN
Joined August 2009
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Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
25 years ago today Welles Crowther gave his life helping others on 9/11. This is the best story @espn has ever done. Share it with your kids and any others who may not have been alive on 9/11 and don’t know what true bravery in the face of evil is.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
"Was the hitter not on time or not on plane?" 😂
@CraigStem breaks down how you should be reading swings on the mound and how to leverage a whiff. 📝
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Once upon a time, there was a CS AB AP exam that was the equivalent of two semesters of freshman CS. It was killed in 2009, leaving CS A, where high school students take a full year to cover one semester of material.
TIL that in 2025 they dumbed it down further and removed polymorphism entirely.
I'm cheering for @tracewoodgrains and @educprogress but man if you want your kids to be challenged you probably just need to home school somehow, it's like America is now terrified of demanding anything from the children it's nominally educating.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
On the left, you can see child autism diagnoses.
On the right, you can see states with policies that give schools more money when their students are diagnosed with autism.
When these policies pass, autism diagnoses increase by almost 25% in one year!
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Fuzz testing is an absolute must for any database (or any sophisticated system/program whatsoever). Trying to compose the edge-cases manually is tedious, hard to review, and is likely to still live a lot uncovered. Randomised tests are easier to develop, maintain and run.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Discover the benefits of SAI, a new indexing mechanism in Cassandra 5.0:
⭐ Improved query performance.
⭐ Reduced storage overhead.
⭐ Seamless integration.
⭐ Makes operational tasks easier
Learn more: t.ly/hSvHC #NoSQL #ApacheCassandra
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
#ApacheCassandra 5.0 will introduce a new feature called Vector Search. Cassandra will now enable generative AI applications, including high-dimensional data handling, similarity matching, and natural language processing (NLP) functioning. bit.ly/3NLwq02 #NoSQL
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
I wrote about land taxes (stay with me) and why it’s a big deal that Detroit may adopt it
vox.com/24025379/detroit-lan…
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Come sunny California for a 2-day event, Dec 12-13.
Join me + other #ApacheCassandra committers, contributors, & PMC members.
I'll be speaking on day 2 at 11:10am: bit.ly/49IemgH
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Chase Burns 102 mph mechanics
✅Maintains stable back foot as he drifts
✅Holds back leg tension as he rides the slope
✅Firm lead leg block & unreal thoracic extension delivers the arm like a whip
✅Deep scap retraction & big pull into ball release
Comp: Hunter Brown
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
If you step on the mound and you don't believe you're at least a little bit invincible, then your physical/mental preparation probably wasn't good enough.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
The next throwing arm that gets “flushed” after a high-pitch outing by running, will be the first in history.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
When MLB expands to 32 teams, it should forget the AL and NL.
Embrace a dramatic geographic realignment.
Here's one way @JimBowdenGM thinks it could look ⤵️
If you think it’s weird that your kids watch YouTube videos of other people playing Minecraft, just remember you watched a TV show about other people reading books.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
Whether you’re an 8 year old with great mechanics or an MLB pitcher throwing upper 90s in a bullpen, somebody will always find something negative to say.
Nothing you do will ever be good enough.
Eat Arbys.
Caleb Rackliffe retweeted
#ApacheCassandra 4.1 is GA! 🎉
The annual release delivers:
⦾ An easier to use experience.
⦾ Technical excellence Cassandra users require.
⦾ Stability of 4.0 enhanced to accelerate your cloud-native future.
Read the blog to find out more:
cassandra.apache.org/_/blog/…
