This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

did you know there was a tv show in 1998 based on The Net and it was terrible? archive.org/details/the-... her trusty sidekick is a talking toshiba libretto

vexed is one of my favorite pixelated font smiths, definitely take a look at these if you are in need! these both have top notch technical particulars and are not afraid to take characterful risks.

I'm giving myself a gold star for noticing and fixing this huge bug in 1Password over two weeks before 1Password publicly acknowledged it: mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01...

“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)

Cheeseburgers are not natural. My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Having trouble sticking with your projects? Feeling burned out? Check out my #clojure Conj 2025 talk for a helpful guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alfq...

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a printer.

I came for the tip on Claude Code hooks (for sounds) but this entire post was worth a careful read: matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/

How fun is this? Watch an audience cheer and laugh in amazement over pixel zooming and an eraser tool. People had never seen anything like it. You can even hear Jobs saying "incredible" as Bill Atkinson demos panning around an image while zoomed in.

🚀 We're pleased to open the call for Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026-2027, a 12-month journey in open science, research software, and community building. 🌎 This year's cohort will be run in Spanish and focused on Latin America More info at ropensci.org/blog/2026/01...

Released this week: Version 22 of the ADBC libraries and drivers. This release includes updates to the ADBC libraries for 8 languages, and improvements to the 4 ADBC drivers that are maintained in the apache/arrow-adbc repository. See the blog for more details: arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/01...

Announcing deck.gl-raster: 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. No server required. 1.3 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 COG, streamed directly into the browser: developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... - GPU-accelerated raster reprojection - GPU image processing for colormaps, nodata values - Efficient use of COG overviews

It's nice to see people bringing up ADBC in conversations like this one: www.reddit.com/r/dataengine... #apachearrow

We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors. You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience

Claude's 5-hour session usage limit feels a bit like rested XP

Data plumbing has never mattered more. From the maturation of open standards like ADBC and Iceberg to the infrastructure needed for agentic workflows, here are our 10 predictions for 2026 🔮 columnar.tech/blog/2026-pr...

Is there anyone in my network with DuckDB skills who could review a PR that runs a Python script to compare the performance of DataFusion and DuckDB for some simple SQL queries? github.com/apache/dataf...

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Now @GitHub.com has postponing this to re-evaluate due to community outcry 😂 Have always considered moving to GitLab, whose k8s support is far better than GitHub's half-arsed ARC controller. At the same time, teaching mainstream platforms has value for students... Anyone have opinions on this?

dbc is a command-line tool that makes installing ADBC drivers 10× easier. Haven’t tried it yet? Get started with our new cheatsheet. 📥Download it at t.co/JcD9ElEwqS

A good news story: local experts able to put buoys in locations important to them and get ocean wave info right on their phones. Backyard Buoys in Alaska are supported by @aoos-alaska.bsky.social #akwx #AlaskaSky @hanners64n.bsky.social @markspringer.bsky.social alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎 https://gem.coop/fellowship/

Map showing the coldest season of the year.

Wohoo, QGIS Arrow support has been merged: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63749 Thanks @paleolimbot & @nyalld et al. Looking forward to testing it out soon 🤩 #qgis #arrow #gischat

merveilles.town/@neauoire/11... github.com/ocaml/ocaml/... "I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days" "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it." Why are people like this?

Made some accidental art with Claude today and I kinda like it

After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here: blog.kagi.com/orion Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026. Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

People talk about print debugging but they never say what they print. Does everyone say "HI MOM" like I do?

This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.

I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats

Was anyone else like me, wondering if you can use ADBC with $5 Postgres from @planetscale.com? Well, you can! (No surprise) I wrote up my test at brycemecum.com/2025/11/15/a... #apachearrow #adbc

ADBC drivers in #Java? Yes. The latest release of ADBC adds a JNI layer that lets Java apps load drivers, run queries, and fetch results fast in @arrow.apache.org format. Read the new blog post from @ian.columnar.tech and David Li for examples and perf comparisons vs. JDBC. Link in comments👇

this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song

Hanami 2.3 is out! This is a fantastic release, with improvements all across the stack, but the thing I’m most proud of is the whopping THIRTY TWO Rubyists who’ve chosen to contribute and make Hanami better. Thank you everyone! 🥰

Here is a nice examination of the benefits of building new systems using the extensibility of @apachedatafusion.bsky.social vs other systems. www.bauplanlabs.com/post/duck-hu...

addr.tools is so good, more people should know about it

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This @posit.co::conf(2025) talk is everything: "The geospatial suite for Arrow is relatively new...so this is a PSA that it exists and it's really powerful and impressive. I actually also found it very easy to use...and I didn't really have much trouble learning it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyg...

"if you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together" New Apache Parquet Community page is up: parquet.apache.org/community/

We’re excited to announce the release of {arrow} 22.0.0 🏹📦 Here’s a roundup of the new features and changes, in a 🧵 Full details can be found at arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/ #rstats

Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !

Nobody thinks about all of the visual representations of survivorship bias that didn't become popular.

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

Watching some of the most talented open source maintainers I know unknowingly review AI slop PRs makes me really sad. I wish we had better tools on GitHub for detection.