TIL this week: LLMs (or at least gpt4-o) are pretty good at interpreting markdown tables. And docling makes it super easy to get PDFs/HTML pages into markdown format. I made a short video showing how to query Wikipedia pages - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGz-...

THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.

Github Receipts. Nice idea! 😊 gitreceipt.vercel.app

If you're making a side project today or a personal site that needs a hero image, I made this lil hero generator a while back: hero-generator.netlify.app Enjoy!

Fargo, Severance, Black Mirror, Atlanta, Master of None, Euphoria – they all left their fans waiting for three years or more between seasons. In fact, we're waiting longer than ever for TV shows to return, as @lisacmuth.bsky.social shows in her Weekly Chart: blog.datawrapper.de/waittime-for...

That you can build Twitter (bsky) with 20 people instead of 2000 means bsky can pursue monetization models that Twitter never could. This is a pattern I see across many startups now. Tech has gotten good enough to ship products at 10x-100x less cost compared to 20 years ago. 1/n

So many products today are described as "AI x". But it should be possible to state it's value without the implementation detail that is "AI", right? Similar how we don't necessarily prefix other software products with "software".

ClickHouse doesn't have a PIVOT operator, but we can achieve similar behavior using aggregate function combinators. In our latest video, we use the -Map suffixed functions to explore house prices in the UK.

In this week's video, I played around with a library called burr. It's a state machine library that you can use to build LLM apps where you want some human input/decision making built in. I only scratched the surface, but it was already pretty cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6WK...

Something interesting is brewing in Iceberg-on-S3 land. 👀 lists.apache.org/thread/v7x65... cc @eatonphil.bsky.social

The ClickHouse 24.11 community call has just got underway. Join us on Zoom: clickhouse.com/company/even... Or YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hpT...

I want to see a screenshot or photo of a project that you've never published anything online about before

Look , I love #duckdb and all, but #daft is going a beautiful job with Iceberg rest catalog

The Database Capital of Europe

I had the pleasure of joining @joereis.bsky.social on his podcast a couple of weeks ago. We discussed many topics, including big shifts in data ecosystem and approaches to commercializing open source. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/3GyW...

That's like a live sentiment tracker. You could make an emoji index. If it correlated with consumer confidence, which it should lead, it would be an interesting market indicator. #Rstats #dataBS

uv makes it so easy to go zero to MRE say i find bug in foo==x.y.z, i can repro with: uv run \ --with foo==x.y.z \ repro.py RuntimeError: oh no! test the branch with a fix: uv run \ --with foo@git+https://{giturl}.git@hotfix-foo \ repro.py ✅ just used this today! github.com/pydantic/pyd...

So on further thought: I wonder why this is happening for you: I’m following *gob-tons* of people now, and my feed is practically overwhelmed with cool AI stuff. Maybe you should follow a bunch of people I am following ;)

ICYMI I recently interviewed the creator of @clickhouse.com, Alexey Milovidov. We dove deep into what ClickHouse is so fast, why AI companies love it (hint: its had a vector data type since 2012), rewriting Zookeeper (yikes), and how math informs database design. www.rilldata.com/blog/rill-cl...

Do not miss @clickhouse.com meetup on Dec 12 in SF 🎄 All 3 founders will be there, our CTO Alexey is giving a talk on ClickHouse+AI, and you'll also hear from users like Doordash. Register now, space is limited - ty @cloudflare.social for hosting! www.meetup.com/clickhouse-s...

This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...

Updates for my database starter pack and list: - Added @clickhouse.com - Added @memgraph.com Welcome to join the bluesky, let's rock! go.bsky.app/Nd8hieE

@xuanwo.io can we add @clickhouse.com to your database list?

This week is going to be A LOT for those of us who've been along for the ride. Here is Roger Federer, a fan of Rafael Nadal

If anyone is looking to connect with other engineering managers or leaders, @pelayoarbues.com put together a great starter pack!

Google cautions about using Google's People Also Ask for content ideas www.seroundtable.com/google-peopl...

Just created a starter pack to get a steady stream of Applied AI related conversations! Think RAG in Enterprises, Structured Extraction from documents, AI in consumer apps and Agents! I will keep adding folks to this list! Who else should I add?! https://buff.ly/3ObxkCD

You can also use Clearsky to see what packs people are in, to reverse search them clearsky.app

My sketch. This time with link! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I like this. I like this a lot. tl;dr: full @bsky.app jetstream feed landing in @cloudflare.social R2 (and available to you!) accessible using two lines of @duckdb.org sql

Took the Llama3.2 vision model for a spin via Ollama and it works pretty well if a little slow www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUg_...

bird sounds

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

Having a hard time finding work? It might be that nobody knows who you are. Obscurity is the enemy. open.spotify.com/episode/32wB...

Images not loading right brings the importance of good alt text, remember this helpful graph:

Wrote a blog post showing how to achieve PIVOT-ish behaviour in ClickHouse and comparing it to DuckDB's PIVOT clause www.markhneedham.com/blog/2024/11...

I operate with 3 Macs at a time. So when I’m waiting for `brew update` to complete on the other two, I have a third to get work done.

I've said this before but I'm saying it again: when you're looking at your job, you should have: - Good pay - Good culture - Good growth opportunities If you have 2/3, it's not too bad, but 0 or 1/3, you might want to question why you're still at that job.

Any ex-FAANG data & ML nerds want to apply their battle-honed skills to a worthwhile cause.. here is a baby social network with a fully open protocol and no scaled-up analytics infra. Now is a great time to build some basic pipelines & dashboards that bootstrap an open🦋stats community

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

Andy Murray on stage? Didn’t see that one coming! From his LinkedIn:

📅 What's the state of SQL-based observability & ClickHouse in November 2024? 🆕 New JSON type makes handling semi-structured data much easier. 🔧 ClickHouse exporter for logs and traces is in beta! 🚀 Improved "getting started" schemas. ⏱️ Time series engine for Prometheus data. clickhou.se/4hIJ4Kj

Created basic tennis feed with most people in @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social tennis starter pack. It'll capture all posts with #tennis or tennis or atp or wta or 🎾. Will improve it and let me know if you need to be added. Please repost! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Great peek into ClickHouse internals! youtu.be/Vy2t_wZx4Is?... So many interesting details and tweaks they do to make things incredibly fast!

I’m glad that uv became the de-facto before I ever had to learn poetry

Have you ever seen a talk or workshop @maeddes.bsky.social has given on @opentelemetry.io such as at multiple #KubeCon and #Devoxx conferences? Please join me to nominate him for this #OTel award!

Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com's principles. He closed his 135K Twitter account, despite it being a major marketing tool for his content and courses. He spent his final days informing his followers about the election before closing it and moving here. Protest isn't always convenient.

I blogged about my driverless car experience cassidoo.co/post/driverl...

Official SNL version is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Fu...

Last year, in an attempt to escape from Twitter, I tried Mastodon, but the UX didn't click for me. Then a Bluesky invite showed up. It was the Twitter clone I was looking for. I started crossposting as a hedge, I even started sending invites of my own. I was all in. Then I went back to Twitter.