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Thorsten Ball

Engineer at Amp/Sourcegraph. Author of "Writing an Interpreter in Go".

2 books on the record · 16 Aug 2026 – 16 Aug 2026 · @thorstenball

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Tiger by John Vaillant

Read that a few years ago. Enjoyed it a lot and still think of it :)

on X · 16 Aug 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.