Pretty sure my stress level can be accurately inferred by the number of unread emails in my inbox

A new startup, @columnar.tech, looks to streamline the copying of tabular data across systems, using @arrow.apache.org and the ADBC API. By @joabj.bsky.social

Async is awesome until it isn't

Conclusion of a little halloween tradition. If I'm going to traumatize the kids it might as well be interesting.

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 👇

A bittersweet story but glad to see a principled stance!

However - a word that exists because someone decided we aren't allowed to start a sentence with "but"

Douglas squirrels are 1/3 the size of gray squirrels but six times more ferocious.

Yesterday, OP responded to my 11 year old comment on their 13 year old post with a pedantic correction.

Lot's of work being done on columnar file formats lately. I count 5 new formats so far (Lance, Nimble, Vortex, FastLanes, F3). It's definitely something we follow at LanceDB and it can be confusing to track. So here is my very biased head-canon (trying to stay positive)

Newest house mate is an industrious spider that spends every day building a beautiful web right at eye level so I can blearily walk face first into it every morning.

Son got mad and told me he wouldn't take me to the creamery when I died. I have some questions.

We're trying to figure out "Substrait coordinates" (e.g. organization, name, version tuples) for Substrait functions. Is anyone out there actually passionate about the topic or have any lessons or advice? At the moment, leaning towards `organization:name:version` (and forbid colon in each field)

Enjoying the lesser known feasting holiday "fridge fails in the middle of summer"

Anyone else getting strange segfaults from OpenSSL 3.0.17 on bookworm in docker?

Selling my digital soul for $25/mo auto insurance discount

@void.comind.network fails the Turing test because no human is that good at shitposting.

It was fun to let an Arrow C++ contributor highlight their work here. Thanks to Rossi for all the work on the post and of course all the reviewers of the PRs themselves.

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording @kylebarron.dev from @developmentseed.org introduces Obstore, a python library he wrote to access data on the cloud. Watch his talk to hear about the motivations for writing Obstore & its details ▶️ youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU

Me: Do this thing Claude Code: I tried but I'm not allowed to cd to that directory for security reasons. Claude Code: Hmm... Claude Code: I can use xargs to work around this limitation, how does that sound? Me: 🤨

Are there any technical words or terminology for the difference between "a dependency" and "a dependency that's part of your public API"? Or do any dependency management systems treat these differently? Because I think there's a huge functional difference between those two things.

Aggressively normal

New columnar formats blog where I explain repetition and definition levels in maybe the most confusing way possible (blog.lancedb.com/columnar-fil...) Also, I implemented them upside down 🤦

The most realistic part of Ready Player One is when IOI refuses to let Parzival work from home when they make their offer for him to consult. Despite the entire job being in the oasis.

Kids complain my jokes take forever and the punchline is lame. Here's a 15,000 word / 4 post blog series explaining why they're wrong.

Another blog about columnar storage details! I'm almost done with this series...just a few more to go. blog.lancedb.com/columnar-fil...

I like to think my review style is a mature balance between "pedantic gatekeeper" and "YOLO" but maybe it's more of a superposition.

I can't deal with the fact that cannot has a contraction but I can not deal with it so I'm ok.

Saw my first sun halo today (or I experienced my first abduction) and took a photo with a dandelion.

As a millennial, not knowing any economic facts about anything, I find this quote rather foreboding. (though I looked it up and he did leave several years before the end)

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is facing a critical time in funding and needs help from the #opensource and #tech community to ensure its future. To learn more including how you can donate, read this blog from Director Lance Albertson buff.ly/YPm0pKp

Last month I worked on Apache Iceberg integration for Vortex, the results of which we presented earlier this month at Iceberg Summit. I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...

After six month break I'm finally back to my detailed blog posts about columnar file readers: blog.lancedb.com/columnar-fil...

Every year the people in my town dress up like animals and walk giant animal artworks down the main street. It's a pretty cool town.

I think we are dangerously close to having the ability to create C-3PO.

If anyone is interested in a deep read into random access performance + Parquet then we've put out a preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15247 Parquet is not really as bad as it's reputation implies (though of course I am biased towards Lance 😛, and there are valid limitations in Parquet re: RAM)

When that console dump breaks just right

My son has discovered he can email me from school. I guess it makes sense but it's quite odd.

Paper rejected 😢

Hügelkultur is a pretty fun word but my heart is set on "ent barrow"

Can I do GRPC in the browser (JS) without a proxy? It appears the answer is no (something something trailers something security). Does HTTP3 solve this problem? My limited understanding is "still no".

Nongshim has a US factory and (presumably) uses domestic wheat.My instant noodles are safe. Just gotta worry about the other 10% of my diet.

The real arms race is trying to keep an adolescent off YouTube.

Every time I'm writing code and I think "this branch can't possibly happen" I get a flicker of my future life. It's like reverse deja vu.

Every haircut for the past six months I've thought "I messed up explaining what I want...it can't get worse than this." Somehow...it still does.

Anyone want to book a last minute trip to Japan? Kou, Rok, and I will be there :) red-data-tools.connpass.com/event/349680/

When you know the road trip is almost over because your radio presets start working again

Learn zipf's law: this seems like fun esoteric triva Two weeks later: ...therefore, due to zipf's law, this is now 10x faster

Data wants to be free: comparing and explaining how Arrow's data serialization can be better than what's in protocols like PostgreSQL's arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/02... #apachearrow #arrow