Context windows out to thwart all our beautiful dreams

On brand, @ahl.bsky.social and I are picking this one up on the podcast today. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild tale of death by uptime! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

i gave sonnet 4.5 a tool called `more_entropy()` that just returns random @ponder.ooo skeets and it **obsesses** over it timkellogg.me/boredom/sonn...

Great post by @chris.blue materializedview.io/p/mcp-server...

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...

This is cool

62 degrees and I just got a nice hug and cuddle from my toddler. It’s snuggle season

New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”

New blog post: A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification. The post defines what storage unification means, defines terminology and evaluates different building blocks and approaches to doing it. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/8/...

[New Book Alert] Systems Engineering for Agentic Applications A guide for turning AI-powered prototypes into production-ready agentic applications Released monthly, chapter by chapter. If 100 people sign up, we are doing this agenticapplications.substack.com/about

Reminder: our conversation with @scott.hanselman.com is this evening!

We want you to build protocols! For that, you need to know about message framing. Conveniently, we produced a video about doing this in #rust on top of #QUIC with iroh :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6bB...

We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming. foursquare.com/products/spa...

This week on Counting Stuff, I write more SQL than most and found that LLMs get in my way in some cases, and are useful tools in others, and it depends a lot on application and whether I have energy to feed it context #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/doing-sql-wo...

1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.

Is there interest? I'd basically want to walk through how everyone's approached memory architecture, tool use, personality design, etc.

I'm still mad about this But also it's so fucking funny

Read weird things. Talk to obscure people. Share ideas in public. Write with your name on it. Make things. Break things. Find smarter people and bug them, nicely, until you’re the person people bug. 8/16

1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social & Robert Bogart Bulking up athlete edition - Hanger Steak with Feta Cream and Fresh Herb Salad - Garlic Scape Pesto Mafaldine

It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @benshindel.bsky.social, the author of this terrific piece on the MIT fabulist, to talk about AI, materials, and fraud. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Why open table formats are suddenly all the rage? Why is AWS investing heavily in making Iceberg tables on S3, and why did Databricks pay a reported $2B to acquire Tabular? The answers might change how we think about data architecture.

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social @matthewsanabria.dev really loved the solutions conversation! Worked to understand the needs of my two customers, then went with Lemony Orzo With Asparagus and Garlic Bread Crumbs + Tri-Tip Steak With Tomato Romesco

On the menu tonight: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021... cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012...

Claude Code now supports resuming sessions, which means that session logs (including tool/llm calls) are stored locally. My curiosity got to me, I figured out the format and wrote a CLI tool to dump specific conversations github.com/paulgb/claud...

IMHO, make this the default, github: github.com/ghostty-org/...

The vault.ssp.sh features a collection of over 1000 curated notes, interconnected concepts that create a knowledge hub for data engineers. This is a brief demo of how the Data Engineering Vault looks like and how you can navigate it. I've spent years collecting, connecting, and curating knowledge.

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social. A new earliest dinner record of 8:39p has been set with special guest @emschwartz.me 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳 Pork chops + skillet gnocchi with miso butter and asparagus

Hey friends, about that time again. sideprojectsaturday.com happening this Saturday! Invite link is on the site if you'd like to join.

My heuristic after touching the p2p stove: 1. Follow @iroh.computer for the cutting edge. 2. Need p2p? Can make it work on BitTorrent? Use BitTorrent. 3. Need high availability + to keep long-tail content alive? Copy Nostr. Multiple HTTP relays. Security rooted in user-controlled keys, not origin.

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social @kateconger.com @rmac.bsky.social Chipotle & Pineapple Chicken Traybake

Published the ASCII illustration tool I've been working on for @oxide.computer (mitos.shared.oxide.computer) and it's even open-source: github.com/oxidecompute...

Today's SQL or Death Seminar Speaker: Ben Naecker from @oxide.computer will explain why a hardware company decided to make a new query language (OxQL) because SQL wasn't good enough! Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...

I am coming around to why MCP is so impressive. For one of my side projects, I used to have to log onto my database admin (PgAdmin) to query stuff. I connected an MCP server to Postgres and can "talk" with my database (and data!) An uplevel in my productivity + ease of work.

Hell is other networks. Today @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers to discuss an incident where our combination with particular networking equipment resulted in a pathological system -- and how it was debugged and resolved. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social Busy week so something quick and easy was in order. Southern Thai dry red curry hit the spot.

Hardware isn't just what you ship; today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined our colleagues Ian Sobering and Doug Wibben to talk about Minibar, a board that simulates a rack to allow a single sled to be programmed and tested in manufacturing. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

One of my all-time favorite talks: how to write so people will care what you have to say. First watched it many years ago and I still think about it constantly. youtu.be/aFwVf5a3pZM

Truly an honor! I hope to be back for a live co-cooking episode one day :)

A new TUI library just dropped and it's absolutely wild! 🤠 yeehaw – A batteries-included text-based application framework 💯 Design sophisticated UIs with embeddable/reusable elements 🦀 Written in Rust! ⭐ GitHub: github.com/bogzbonny/ye... #rustlang #tui #terminal #library #commandline

The simplest but limited are charts within DuckDB (www.ssp.sh/brain/at-pro...). Next, I typically use Rill (`curl rill.sh | sh && rill start`). It's based on DuckDB and its code/local first. A super developer-friendly, blazingly fast 😉, and elegant way to explore data.

Any other coffee geeks on bsky? #coffee #espresso

Another week another Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social Kept it “simple” tonight with one dish: Smoked beet and citrus salad with yogurt, kumquat vinaigrette, pickled beet stems, beet leaf chips, and pistachio dust

As predicted by @thoth.ptnote.dev (but I swear I wasn't thinking it when I posted it!), @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to pick this up for tomorrow's Oxide and Friends. Join us at 5p Pacific -- and bring your own trials and tribulations (and occasional victories?) discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @randyshoup.bsky.social @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social loved the stories this evening! On the menu: - spaghetti & meatballs `FROM scratch` - lemon arugula pear salad

Made a D20 roller with a retro CRT style with @threejs.org over the weekend. Fun little project—give it a roll! 🎲✨ codepen.io/litruv/full/... #d20 #dnd #retro #webdev

Tomorrow, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @randyshoup.bsky.social, who is not only an engineering leader in Silicon Valley, but also grew up here. Over the last 50 years, Randy has seen the best and worst of Silicon Valley; join us Monday 5p Pacific to discuss! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

The Kesling Criteria (informally) -- A system is a database if: 1) You can ask questions of it 2) It returns data As presented in my @paperswelove.org talk last week youtu.be/6A4vFRpSq3k