What a turnout for the first ever Madison Systems meetup. I'm blown away by the systems talent and interest in Madison! Make sure to subscribe to the Madison Systems Luma calendar for updates on future events: luma.com/madisonsystems

Reminder, this Sunday is the Madison Systems Coffee Chat!

@tylerhillery.com, @xiangpeng.systems, and I are super stoked to announce the creation of the Madison Systems group and our first event, a coffee chat on Nov. 9th at Union South (UW-Madison campus)! Luma invite here: luma.com/v69tvpla

Just like other big cities, Madison is getting its own systems talk series. Come join us!

More systems groups 🎉🎉

@abigalekim.bsky.social @xiangpeng.systems and I are kicking off Madison Systems with a coffee chat on Sunday, Nov 9th. Come nerd out on systems! luma.com/v69tvpla

I did Postgres dirty with this one

What an adventure! I wrote about how the Node.js docs on backpressure led me to trying out DTrace for the first time Read here: tylerhillery.com/blog/tyler-t...

My friends at DuckDB Labs are hiring a DevOps Engineer (on-site in Amsterdam). I know from experience that working on open source is fantastic, and this is a great opportunity. Apply: duckdblabs.com/jobs/devops_...

Exciting opportunity! As I shift over to the Storage team at Supabase, we’re opening up a spot on the Data Eng team. If you’re curious about the work or what it’s like here, my DMs are open. Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/69d...

I can't believe the NLCS isn’t being broadcast on local TV in Wisconsin

Supabase is the most diverse programming language environment I’ve ever worked in. We have production services written in TypeScript, Elixir, Go, Rust, Python and Haskell

Funny how both Datadog and Honeycomb built their own storage systems and gave them dog names, Husky and Retriever

New Tyler Tries is out! This time I wrote about how I used git bisect to help resolve an issue with Supabase Storage Read it here: tylerhillery.com/blog/tyler-t...

I will be at the Ask Supabase station in the build stage for all your Supabase needs #SupabaseSelect

It's good to be back in Wisconsin

Busted out git bisect for the first time today

New @oxide.computer application FAQ just dropped

What's the best mesh wifi router?

Project MINI RACK by @jeffgeerling.com looks sweet. Might be my gateway drug into homelabbing

I'm absolutely stoked for this read

The Python documentary was so well done www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

I wrote about why I believe the Oxide and Friends podcast will have a greater impact on their mission to change computing forever than their rack scale computer tylerhillery.com/blog/oxide-a...

My wife's a bodybuilder and has been trying to convince me to prep for a show. Should I do it?

PyPack Trends weekly downloads data is now publicly available, have at it

4 years into teaching myself programming in 10 years and things are really starting to click www.norvig.com/21-days.html

Double digit PR week, nice

Made some recent updates to my favorite podcast episodes. Added a bunch from Oxide and Friends. tylerhillery.com/lists

Making my way through the @oxide.computer and Friends podcast backlog, and my new funniest episode has to be Reflecting on Founder Mode. I’ll leave you with my favorite line: "I'm fine, come closer."

It's official, I'm moving back to WI! Would love to meet other tech folks, especially those into systems, infra, DBs, etc. Anyone up for a potential WI Systems group?

dbt BigQuery users, you'll like this PR. Allows specifying slot reservations in profiles without having to create multiple BigQuery projects. github.com/dbt-labs/dbt...

Never kill yourself

Can't wait for the @quinnypig.com AWS Summit play by play

Turns out blocking GitHub Actions emails wasn’t my smartest decision tylerhillery.com/blog/post-mo...

Meet Pat the Python, new logo for PyPack Trends

Looking back, I can divide my life into chapters based on the main podcast I was listening to at that time

Internet Zero, my way of consuming the internet with intent tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-c...

Finally Google Cloud updated status page status.cloud.google.com

Big announcement from us at @supabase.com supabase.com/blog/multigr...

DuckLake is even better in person

PyPack Trends made it into PyCon US 2025!

Updated my about me and background section on my website tylerhillery.com

PyPack Trends uses SQLite as a caching layer in front of BigQuery. 13.5 GiB to store all of PyPI weekly downloads data. The SQLite file is hosted on the same VPS as the backend, with indexes in place to optimize for low latency point queries.

Listening to @oxide.computer and friends backlog, the "Surviving Conventional Wisdom" episode, got me thinking. The wisdom "the more senior you get, the more opinionated you should be" often leads to strong opinions about things that don’t matter. Much more important to choose your battles.

I always see storage cost as a main reason for a data lake(house) architecture but most data warehouses charge the same for storage as any object storage provider.

Took DuckLake for a spin on Supabase and Supabase Storage Almost exact same setup as my tutorial I did last year besides a minor change in the attach command to use ducklake www.youtube.com/watch?v=diL0...

I drank from the DuckLake and have been converted

ICYDK S3 tables have a built Iceberg REST endpoint and it works out of the box with DuckDB (read-only)

Pocket is shutting down and I was a power user until just a couple months ago when I switched to Readwise Reader. Might be time to finally finish that draft blog post "How I Consume the Internet."

Coming up on 4 years since I first decided to learn how to program and this just blows my mind.