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#language #lao

Lao for Missionaries

2026-09-18 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Laos, Northeastern Thailand, and Lao Communities Across the U.S., France, and Australia

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#databases #postgresql #pgvector #ai #embeddings #friday3

pgvector & Vector Search

2026-09-18 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Teaching Your Database to Understand Meaning

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#commandlinetools #jq #json #friday2

jq

2026-09-11 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Command-Line JSON, Done Right

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#language #guarani

Guaraní for Missionaries

2026-09-08 • 22 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Paraguay, and in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil

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#programming #swift #friday1

Swift Crash Course

2026-09-04 • 12 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Language Behind Every iPhone — and Now Much More

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#language #greek

Greek for Missionaries

2026-09-02 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Greece, Cyprus, and Greek diaspora communities across the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom

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#ai #rag #llm #embeddings #friday4

RAG -- Giving LLMs a Memory

2026-08-28 • 26 min read • Steve Lloyd

How to Make an AI Answer From Your Data, Not Its Guesses

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#language #zulu

Zulu for Missionaries

2026-08-22 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in South Africa, and understood across Eswatini, Lesotho, and much of southern Africa

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#language #yoruba

Yoruba for Missionaries

2026-08-22 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, and among large diaspora communities in Brazil, Cuba, the UK, and the United States

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#databases #sql #indexing #performance #friday3

Database Indexing Deep Dive

2026-08-21 • 14 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Data Structure That Decides If Your Query Takes 2ms or 2 Minutes

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#commandlinetools #sed #awk #textprocessing #friday2

sed & awk

2026-08-14 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Text-Processing Power Twins

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#programming #go #golang #friday1

Go Crash Course

2026-08-07 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Language That Powers the Cloud — Simple by Design

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#trivia #technology #friday5

Tech Trivia Vol. 3

2026-07-31 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Stories Behind the Buttons You Press Every Day

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#language #armenian

Armenian for Missionaries

2026-07-24 • 18 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and large diaspora communities across Russia, the United States (especially Glendale, California), France, Lebanon, Iran, and Georgia

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#databases #sqlite #embedded #friday3

SQLite

2026-07-17 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Most Deployed Database on Earth

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#language #malagasy

Malagasy for Missionaries

2026-07-14 • 23 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Madagascar and Malagasy communities worldwide

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#commandlinetools #cron #automation #scheduling #friday2

Crons

2026-07-10 • 14 min read • Steve Lloyd

The quiet workhorse of computing

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#language #quechua

Quechua for Missionaries

2026-07-09 • 23 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and parts of Argentina, Chile, and Colombia

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#language #danish

Danish for Missionaries

2026-07-07 • 20 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands

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#language #arabic

Arabic for Missionaries

2026-07-06 • 24 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken across North Africa and the Middle East

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#language #swahili

Swahili for Missionaries

2026-07-06 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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#language #cantonese

Cantonese for Missionaries

2026-07-05 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, and southern China (Guangdong)

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#language #vietnamese

Vietnamese for Missionaries

2026-07-05 • 16 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Vietnam and by Vietnamese communities worldwide

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#language #asl

ASL for Missionaries

2026-07-05 • 21 min read • Steve Lloyd

Used across the United States and Canada

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#language #cebuano

Cebuano for Missionaries

2026-07-05 • 16 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in the central and southern Philippines

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#llm #ai #machinelearning #friday4

LLMs

2026-06-26 • 21 min read • Steve Lloyd

How LLMs Actually Work

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#language #marshallese

Marshallese

2026-06-21 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in the Marshall Islands

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#databases #postgresql #psql #commandlinetools #friday3

A Guide to PSQL

2026-06-19 • 10 min read • Steve Lloyd

The official command-line interface for PostgreSQL

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#wsl #linux #windows #os #friday2

A guide to WSL

2026-06-12 • 12 min read • Steve Lloyd

Windows Subsystem for Linux

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#programming #mojo #python #ai #friday1

Mojo

2026-06-05 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Python Superset That Runs at the Speed of C

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#trivia #technology #friday5

Tech Trivia Vol. 2

2026-05-29 • 18 min read • Steve Lloyd

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