have you tried disabling "smart complete" in your editor? I am much more focused when writing since I got rid of Copilot in my editor. 95% of the time the suggestions are useless and just interrupt my train of thought.

Did you know you can build a data analytics agent without the LLM ever seeing your data? That's what we did. We teach the LLM about your data and let it generates SQL. Then we use our open-source tool Shaper generate charts/PDF reports/Excel files and send them directly to you. 1/2

@duckdb.org is such a flexible tool that it's hard to categorize. Is it SQLite for analytics? Is it a SQL query engine for any data source? A dataframes alternative? A lightweight data lake?

It's probably the best time ever to get into game development: We gotta make use of all those GPUs out there somehow. And if any of those claims about our productivity in the near future are true, we should have lots of time to play games soon!

Did you know that with @duckdb.org you can directly query your database schema? When you combine this with considerate comments on your tables and columns it becomes a powerful tool to build agents and other systems that dynamically discover and learn to use your data.

I built a Slack data analytics agent on top of @taleshape.bsky.social. The agent answers your questions and uses our new API to directly send charts, Excel files or PDF reports into Slack. taleshape.com/blog/build-y...

We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2. For more details, read the announcement blog post: ducklake.select/2026/04/13/d...

Fiction is a great teacher:

Working on something fun for @taleshape.bsky.social 👀 Send SQL get back an image or PDF report? Soon: Official API to generate downloads. Point to a dashboard or just send a SQL string. Either get back a file directly or get a URL to a file. And files can be data: JSON/CSV/XLSX, or also PDF or PNG.

I set up a minimal self-hosted data lake platform with DuckDB, DuckLake and @taleshape.bsky.social. The whole setup is a single docker compose file that covers all basic data needs from ingest and storage to transform and visualization: taleshape.com/blog/simple-...

Today @taleshape.bsky.social launched on Uneed and people seem to like it 👀 If you have a minute, I am happy about your support 🙏 www.uneed.best/tool/taleshape

Shaper - a a duckdb powered dashboarding tool Interesting approach of extending SQL with dashboarding instructions. Slight difference to evidence with using SQL in markdown and then custom tags. taleshape.com/shaper/docs/

@taleshape.bsky.social now offers hosting + support for Shaper! Fully-managed, On-Premise BI with White-Labeling for 150/month anyone? I am happy about any feedback🙏 And if you can think of any company that might be interested in code-first embedded analytics powered by DuckDB, please reach out 👀

I haven't updated my personal blog since starting @taleshape.bsky.social so I used that as a chance to give an update on why I am building Taleshape and where things stand right now: jorin.me/building-tal... Also: I am always happy about any ideas on where to take Taleshape next 🙏

My biggest recap from FOSSASIA this year: It's all AI now. I felt a stark contrast to last year that basically every talk is about AI. No one writing code by hand is already old news. And now everyone is automating all their processes with agents. It's a wild time to build a software product!

What's cool is not only this new feature itself, but that I didn't built it: You can now download @taleshape.bsky.social tables directly as CSV. Last week Shaper got attention on HN and now people start to actively contributing and making it better for everyone. That's why Shaper is open source 💙

@taleshape.bsky.social now has "watermarks" for chart download to make it easy for your customers to credit you. One of the companies I work with integrated Shaper into their product. And now their customers use various dashboards regularly as part of their daily work. 1/2

Got curious why there is a sudden spike in github stars and turns out someone posted @taleshape.bsky.social on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705...

I couldn't imagine a better fit than DuckDB for @taleshape.bsky.social: Shaper is all about using SQL to build data visualizations and sharing them. There are many databases, but DuckDB and its powerful extension system allow Shaper to query many different data sources, all from a single binary.

I sometimes forget that @taleshape.bsky.social supports dark mode:

@taleshape.bsky.social is open source for one reason: I am building the tool I wish I had. I don't want to keep user data in-house and not bother with regulations. And I never want to worry about integrating analytics too deeply into our product because the vendor might some day raise prices.

Have you seen @taleshape.bsky.social's file-based workflow? Use your favorite text editor to build dashboards all in SQL! Easier to show than explain. Here is short demo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYv... (also: my first youtube video! will keep practicing 🙏)

I am launching @taleshape.bsky.social on @peerlist.bsky.social this week. Appreciate any upvotes and comments 🙏 peerlist.io/jorin/projec... #buildinpublic

I will be speaking at FOSSASIA this year to show how to quickly visualize data entirely in SQL using Shaper and DuckDB! I had a great time as participant last year: Great energy and many interesting conversations about what everyone is building in open source - in Asia and around the globe.

Bar and Line Charts, Tables, Text, Gauges, Boxplots, Filters, PDF, CSV, Excel, Pie and Donut Charts - @taleshape.bsky.social starts to have a lot of features! I just created a demo board that shows how to use them all: (link in comment)

New Year, New Features! 🍰🍩 @taleshape.bsky.social now has Pie and Donut Charts for when your dashboard needs some more colors. And big Thank You to James for contributing this feature: github.com/taleshape-co... It's beautiful seeing the magic of open source collaboration🙏

The BI tooling market is changing rapidly: Lots of consolidations around data platforms + AI tools replacing traditional BI dashboards. So why bother building @taleshape.bsky.social? Shaper is open-source, SQL-driven, focused on embedded analytics + data sharing: 1/2 github.com/taleshape-co...

@taleshape.bsky.social is essentially a DuckDB wrapper to visualize + share data. And I am more excited than ever about @duckdb.org. I just want to do everything in SQL: Data ingest + transform, data viz + automation. The ease of using DuckDB. The extension system. AI agents for writing SQL.

Together with Shaper's new File-based Workflow we introduced the shaper-bin PyPi. Live-previewing dashboards right from your own editor is as simple as: $ pipx run shaper-bin dev

Shaper now deploys dashboards directly from SQL files and live-previews changes. $ shaper dev Build analytics dashboards: - using your favorite editor + LLM - version controlled in Git - with pull requests + code reviews - integrated into your CI/CD pipeline taleshape.com/blog/analyti...

Added "Copy Markdown" buttons to the @taleshape.bsky.social docs. More AI support coming very soon 🙏

Teaser: File-based Workflow for @taleshape.bsky.social coming soon ✨ Edit SQL file in your favorite editor and live-preview dashboard changes. Once this is ready you can track dashboards in Git, and use your own editor with all its AI features to build dashboards.

🟢🔴🟢 is rare to see on this screen

Who would have thought Box Plots are this popular! Less than 24h after release I already saw people using them for: - Visualizing medical scores - Debugging audio translation quality - Monitoring urban mobility data

My favorite part about @taleshape.bsky.social Box Plots: You can define what what to show when hovering an outlier data point to make it directly actionable.

Box Plots just shipped in @taleshape.bsky.social: Quickly visualize data distributions with a single line of SQL. Thanks to @duckdb.org macros you just type "BOXPLOT(my_value)" to calculate all statistics - including outliers. Give it a try: github.com/taleshape-co...

Is it just me or anyone else has this strange workflow? I basically spent 80% of my time in a single "todo.md" file. It's where I plan out work, write messages and so on. And now with LLM prompts I spent even less time in other apps.

Boxplots are coming to @taleshape.bsky.social! And I just created a DuckDB helper function to do the math for you. Pretty neat that that's possible as a simple macro. Makes using boxplots straight forward. And please tell me if I got the math wrong somehow 🙏

Who would have thought text-based tools would have such a comeback! Looking back it seems obvious that language is the right media to communicate knowledge. And I can't imagine letting an LLM touch anything that is not versioned in Git.

I have a backlog for @taleshape.bsky.social with 200+ feature ideas. But I won't built any of them. Unless an actual user requests it. I am more afraid of making Shaper feel messy and complex than having too few features.

Learn Bash and SQL. I have used so many programming languages and even more frameworks over the years. But basically every project used Postgres and Linux. Learning shell scripting and SQL is probably the best tech investment I made.

Are you worried about AI taking your job? This is probably the best article I read about how to deal with this and in general how to act in the face of uncertainty:

What made me switch to light mode: I want to be able to code in the airport without scaring people.

Did you know that you can download @taleshape.bsky.social dashboards as PDF? Thanks to chromedp we can generate PDFs server-side, in the same Docker image. Thanks @mvdan.cc! Means you get consistent PDF files - even on mobile or using an unusual browser.

Wish I would have started using Postgres Row-Level Security years ago! I am helping a client designing a new system and we decided to implement their permission system directly in Postgres. And I am amazed how solid it feels. 1/2

Feels strange when a handful of companies own the world's cloud infrastructure. But we can change that. Build your software on open standards. When you aren't stuck with a specific platform, providers have to compete to get you as a customer.

Every company is a data company, but most don't know where to start. I just published a new blog post on how to get started building data capabilities at your company, one step at a time. Curious to hear your thoughts! taleshape.com/blog/getting...

The most underrated way to support open source is through words. Yes, money is crucial and writing code too. But giving feedback and spreading the word is something so easy to do with a big impact down the line.

Fivetran buys DBT. Just after they bought SQLMesh. What now? Ignore what they say. Judge them by their actions: There is only one way to look at it when you buy the two leading open source data transform tools - A move to establish control over a critical layer of the data stack.

Do you prefer light or dark theme for your dashboards? Shaper supports both: taleshape.com/shaper/docs/