It bothered me a bit that I couldn't find a mathematical analysis of the "minimizing structure size by reordering member fields while respecting alignment" problem, so I decided to play around with a simple version of the problem myself. Not sure how useful this is in practice, but I was able to answer part of my curiosity at least.
Thanks for mentioning Mythical Man Month - I've never heard of it before, but it seems like a good read from a skim. I've always felt that engineers in the past have already solved (or put heavy thought into) a lot of the problems we deal with today, and I was wondering where I could get that insight.
My experience is mostly in JavaScript, although I'm trying to level up my C++ skills more recently. My biggest fear is accidentally writing a security vulnerability, so I've been watching a lot of presentations on past security bugs in Chromium so I don't repeat the same mistakes.
I have been thinking of making an IAccessible2 inspector, since all the old ones are abandoned and crash in Windows 11, or are missing some nice to have features. But I won't lie that recently I've been feeling the job search burn, so more of my side projects are web apps using technologies to aid resume driven development, haha.
Maybe referring to synchronize_seqscans?
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-compa...