v1.4.0 of our open source mcp-confluent server is out 🎉 It includes new tools for Kafka message consumption and consumer management! Give it a try and let me know what you think: github.com/confluentinc...

Alsways fun to be on the show! But this one is kinda personally special. Happy Birthday #KafkaStreams youtu.be/wuWJ99wp9hQ

2 AI-powered apps with good UX that I actually use in my day to day outside of work: iNaturalist: Snap a pic of an interesting bird or plant, get it identified. Elicit: Ask a scientific question, get papers returned on it. Click into the citations and see the supporting sentence.

Do you know what an SEP is? It stands for Specification Enhancement Proposal, and it's a way to propose changes to the open MCP spec. You can view the list and their statuses at the link below: modelcontextprotocol.io/seps

It's tough to define the mechanisms of human cognition. Given that, can we say AI can replace us? In the age of AI, it might be good to sit with the question of what human thinking is, and let that inform our approach to AI. luciacerchie.dev/articles/ai-...

We built some agent skills to help people use Flink, Kafka Streams, and Kafka clients, as well as Tableflow. LMK what you think! github.com/confluentinc...

Fuzzy-matching against aliases in your command palette... that's cool! blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build...

nighttime browsing: interop proposal guide github.com/web-platform...

Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud. We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...

"A lot of people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it." It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable! Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...

oh no I just found riso zine Etsy :D

It's 2025, why aren't the AI innovations folding my laundry

jira? isn't that the guy who dreams of sushi?

My internal math hobbyist and philosopher balks every time I see unbounded Flink tables referred to as “infinite”, but I’ll let y’all have it as a loanword

This is a screenshot from the ATProto docs. No leading $, no newline business that gets messed up when I copy this over to the terminal. Might seem trivial, but the seconds it takes to get to a locally running an app so devs can follow along the tutorial are critical. The fewer, the better.

[on a call with a partner team at a tech company] thank you for your microservice 🫡

Thanks for the write up, Maggie! Spent the weekend moving house but if I get a spare moment to myself this week I plan to crack my knuckles and give DeepSeek a spin on my personal laptop… probably some side project with ATProto

The lively and happy dev community around ATProto is a great value signal.

Thinking of teaching kids to make static websites this year at a local STEM center… what are your favorite resources for teaching internet safety and awareness?

been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!) so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE) wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...

Bsky looks like X but could just as easily been an old school forum. It’s all in the ATProtocol and positions bsky for an increasingly fractionated social media landscape. Read up: arxiv.org/html/2402.03... and bsky.social/about/blog/5...

TIL you can ID your connected printers by running lpstat -p -d

It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17! sessionize.com/current-lond...

New Year, new website! luciacerchie.dev

Those “brag docs” are great references for when you want to make a case for yourself professionally to others (promotion season etc). But they are even more important for your own bad days. If you don’t have one, think about it for a New Year’s resolution

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

4 out of my top 5 were Frozen songs. Not my fault 😅❄️

Data viz friends, are you aware of any stickers that are specifically meant for creating charts? Doing a manual repo viz exercise and I'm probably just going to order some planner stickers but I'm curious

Did you know that user follows in atproto work like hyperlinks? User A follows user B, that means that there's only a follow record in A's repo. Universal indexing takes care of B's list.

Pleased that arxiv is starting to experiment with offering whitepapers as html... was getting tired of squinting at pdfs

What’s the name of the website design aesthetic that all these LLM companies use? You know the one, pastels, watercolor, hand-drawn icons, friendly serif fonts…

Why Netflix crashed @ Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul 🥊 *120M+ streaming = server TKO 💥*Despite 17k+ edge servers & Chaos 🐒 resilience, they wasn’t ready for real-time streaming. Issue: VOD ≠ Live Streaming Live streaming needs: •Zero buf & predictive cach •Near-zero latency •Real-time data processing

Um what. I have no words. The last time I sent a telegram I was requesting penicillin for Nome, Alaska. 🐕🦮🐕🦮🛷

New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter: English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025 theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v... Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025 albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

Been burning the midnight oil getting everything ready for this year. Excited to introduce our brand new platform, which we’ll be using from now on for this event! Check it out 🎄 adventofts.com

Me, seeing my coffee temp is 139°F: "Ah, approaching drinkability!"

Data community, the cfp for #Current25 Bengaluru is now open! 🎉 Submit your talk by December 19! ➡️ cnfl.io/4ekhGzq

favorite data viz books?

Hey it's me, Lucia! I'm a big fan of developers, DX, and data. Couple other places to follow me: github.com/Cerchie, and www.linkedin.com/in/luciacerc...

see you in your nightmares

Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRky... Kafka+FlinkSQL+Streamlit, enjoy!