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title: "Infrequent Miscellany #2"
author: Marc Roberts
date: 2019-09-22
url: https://www.marcroberts.info/2019/infrequent-miscellany-2/
tags: [infrequent-miscellany]
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# Infrequent Miscellany #2
This time: Postgres deep dive, tech stack, HTML attributes, machine learning and 21/9
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### How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic 🔗
A very detailed (including a break down of the source code!) writeup of how PostgreSQL maintains [atomicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomicity_(database_systems)) of transactions
👉 [brandur.org](https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity)
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### The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company 🔗
Wenbin Fang, the founder/CEO/developer/everything behind [Listen Notes](https://listennotes.com), gives a fairly thorough breakdown of the tech stack he's using to single handedly run his company
👉 [listennotes.com](https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b)
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### An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle 🔗
Over the last few years there's been a lot a new attributes added to HTML. Used incorrectly they can cause an inconvenience, or potentially a loss of revenue
👉 [cloudfour.com](https://cloudfour.com/thinks/an-html-attribute-potentially-worth-4-4m-to-chipotle/)
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### Machine Learning with Martha, Flip and Bit 🔗
Google have launched a comic series, featuring a robot (Bit) and a cat (Flip), to teach the fundamentals of machine learning
👉 [google.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20190923120540/https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/ml-comic-1/)
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### It is was the 21st day of September 🎥
[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hpU6UEq8hA)
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