I can't believe my job is being automated

Great episode on Arrow Database Connectivity with @joereis.bsky.social and @ian.columnar.tech of @columnar.tech Give it a listen because ADBC is the standard we needed yesterday

authentication is a mess. passkeys are not an improvement.

It's finally here! I wrote about the evolution of software engineering from FORTRAN to LLMs to better understand the AI coding milestones underway. It included an in-depth look at major AI coding milestones. I'd love to hear your thoughts! djpardis.com/blog/2026/02...

This is coming out today! Just need to make it look good

Do people who post longform to X and LinkedIn not want those without an account to read them?

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

Here are my slides from my recent CMU talk, as I'm transitioning from the Olmo 3 era of just building a reasoning model to thinking about how to do impactful research for agentic systems. docs.google.com/presentation...

roses are red violets are grey

finally i can publish my curling article.

Why do the agents rewrite documents sequentially letter by letter? Can't they just cp or mv? What am I missing?

Since there's (shockingly) been a lot of pushback on this ... Every one of those last 10 World Series has featured at least one team with a title drought of between 14 and 108 years. And eight or them featured a team that had gone at least a quarter-century. #facts

I see the agent class has distributed their talking points

here are some

What are some of your favorite album/LP covers of all time?

Excited to announce that the Applied ML Conference that I've been involved with in Charlottesville, VA is back again this year, April 17-18! And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker! Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

What did you ship this week?

The kind of thing that makes me wish I came up with it

You all miss OldTwitter^tm I miss LiveJournal We are not the same

"stay in the loop" ... I see what you did there.

Remember when the social networks were good for finding communities, connecting with people, finding gigs, and stuff

What's a good DJ newsletter/magazine to stay in the loop in 2026?

Why can't we have nice things?

Why can't we have nice things?

Slides got posted! blobs.duckdb.org/data-day-tex...

Little-known fact: AWS S3 rewrote almost everything in the request path to Rust (!) for better performance. From Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up AWS S3 for 10+ years. Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU

🧪 Awesome announcement from the @quantstack.bsky.social team! Introducing notebook.link, share your computational notebook and have them run directly in the browser with no setup, powered by Jupyterlite and the xeus stack. #datascience #scientificcomputing

You're absolutely right

Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir

Beyond PPO - The New Wave of Policy Optimization Techniques for LLM Post-Training by yadnyesh He goes deep into the policy-optimization rabbit hole and dumped his “policy optmzn techniques beyond ppo” notes into one post. He has covered grpo, dr.grpo, gspo, dapo, cispo, gmpo, rspo, and sapo.

this time of year brings a mix of emotions, i know. i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere. this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call. 216-361-6772.

wow tap & quickslice in the same day. there's never been a better time to sync the atmosphere

Better at serato shortcuts than vscode

My brain cannot comprehend how Framer works

This is a great point. AI-generated code doesn't allow you to escape the abstraction level at which it is generating the code.

I’m confused about why he didn’t get the job. He answered the question correctly.

grease floats. when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks. the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process. listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, while strong, required no enunciation to prove it so. – Thomas Hardy

Trying out FSNotes and pretty impressed so far. Ticks a lot of my boxes - Markdown in a folder - iOS + OSX app - Integrates with Git/Github to auto commit changes - Syncing if you put your folder in iCloud Drive bunch more, too. github.com/glushchenko/...

> Our central finding is that causal decoder-only Transformer language models are injective almost surely. I don't read enough ML theory papers like this. Very interesting results here. As part of the injectivity proof, it's shown that transformers are also real analytic.

Last I recall it’s the mathstodon.xyz instance specifically that supports it. I don’t think just any Mastodon instance supports LaTeX otherwise. LaTeX support is one of the few things I miss about it, but I didn’t often find myself making frequent use of the feature anyways.

The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇

I need a new laptop. What should I get

We love it when filmmakers take direct inspiration from great artists and classic paintings. Here are some of our favourites… First up, The Truman Show (1998) and Au clair de lune (1956) by René Magritte. 1/35

Hugging Face’s new overview of OCR models and when to fine tune etc huggingface.co/blog/ocr-ope...

Preseason: THE DODGERS ARE RUINING BASEBALL Regular Season: LOL DODGERS World Series: THE DODGERS ARE RUINING BASEBALL