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Ridiculous Fishing EX is an extraction shooter. apps.apple.com/us/app/ridic...

This week we released version 0.3.0 of dbc, the package manager for modern database drivers. This release makes dbc: 🧩 Easier to embed inside apps 🤖 Easier to run with AI agents ⚙️ Easier to set up in CI workflows Read the announcement and install or upgrade 👇 columnar.tech/blog/dbc-0.3.0

Software preservation isn't one-size-fits-all. 🌍 Our Ambassadors provide free, tailored consultations to help you implement @SWHeritage standards in your specific sector & language. Book a session: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/10/24/book-a-software-heritage-ambassador

Ultima Underworld 2 Avatars

just fit an OLS on a binary outcome.

Does anyone have a good guide for migrating existing apps/platforms to use ATProto?

The excellent @overturemaps.bsky.social has a new data access example for (the also excellent) ibis-project.org. docs.overturemaps.org/examples/ibis/ Their example code shows why I think Ibis is still very much a compelling package.

Announcing the first ever @arrow.apache.org and #ApacheParquet meetup in Paris, kindly hosted by @datadoghq.com. If you’re using Arrow or Parquet, looking for insights, or wanting to meet other community members, this meetup is for you. Please register if you plan to attend! luma.com/6ed1oko1

Never let anyone talk you out of a quick 2 day game jam. Those 4 months will be the best 3 years spent releasing a commercial game of your life

A breezy afternoon at the old railroad bridge in Carcross, YT Still a few weeks from the first pax train... #mountainmonday #photography #yukon

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

What video lives in your head rent-free? For me, it's www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyXo...

apache.r-universe.dev/arrow this looks spiffy, nice one @jeroenooms.bsky.social

R-universe now generates social media preview cards for each package, like this one: ropensci.r-universe.dev/targets. You can also get the card manually from the /{package}/card.png API (or svg).

We're excited to announce the release of {arrow} 24.0.0 🏹📦 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 #apachearrow

📣 Last day for @rconsortium.bsky.social grant submissions! My (unofficial) Tips: - Small scoped R 📦 (or improvement) / tool - ~6 - 12 month duration - 3-7k ask is the sweet spot Spend 45-60 mins with your thoughts to write a proposal! r-consortium.org/all-projects... #rstats

All this blogging about GitHub's death means it's a good time to post about @softwareheritage.org: www.softwareheritage.org. GitHub has never been an archive, it's a social network. Consider SHI if you have something you want to keep around.

Announcing Great Docs: Beautiful #Python package documentation 🐍 Point it at your code for a polished Quarto-powered site with 🔹 Auto-discovery of your public API 🔹 Modern UI (dark mode/gradients) 🔹 LLM-friendly output 🔹 One-command GitHub deployment Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

AI coding tools speed up how we build data-driven apps. But legacy database access patterns slow us down. Join us for a live hands-on workshop to learn how ADBC makes database access faster, more portable, and better suited to analytical and agentic work. Register on Luma: luma.com/3lt47cj9

This looks pretty useful: Makes Claude smarter about tool calls or makes pi safer with tool calls: github.com/mariusvnieke...

JavaScript and TypeScript developers have been paying “the JSON tax” on every database query: parsing, coercing, and validating results. Our latest post introduces the ADBC driver manager for @nodejs.org, which keeps results typed in @arrow.apache.org format end to end: columnar.tech/blog/json-tax

In recognition of leaf blower season, post your favorite white noise tracks

In 2024 I spent days trying to optimize a point-in-polygon join with ~130 million points against all U.S. zipcodes and the best I could come up with was a few minutes. In 2026, both SedonaDB and @duckdb.org spatial can both do it in seconds 🤯. More in the post! dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2026/wr...

This is really great to see from @quantstack.bsky.social! Clearly scoped, fundable work for Arrow (and others): quantstack.net/fundable/#ap...

jemalloc had a tumultuous last few years but this didn't actually cause any projects who had been using it to move off. I wrote about what happened and I cataloged the projects still using jemalloc. (paywall has expired) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/16...

Apache Arrow 24.0.0 is out. See the highlights on our blog post: arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/04...

The PSF is looking for a PyPI Sustainability Engineer to join the team! This is a full time, 1-year contract (with the possibility of renewal), globally remote position. If you love #Python, care about open source, and want your work to matter at infrastructure scale–consider applying! #PyPI #Python

btw I periodically have to recommend runcat because it rules. the kitty runs faster when cpu goes up apps.apple.com/us/app/runca...

I re-made Glider some years back for MacOS/iOS. It broke at some point (perhaps an Apple change for Retina displays?) so I pulled it from the App Store. (Claude looked at the code—found some minor coordinate issues. Thanks!) Glider Classic for MacOS is back on. apps.apple.com/us/app/glide...

👋 Hey PNW! We have two Apache DataFusion Meetups happening next week. 📅 Portland (April 22): https://bit.ly/4vdGqDs 📅 Seattle (April 23): https://bit.ly/4jOCWSk All are welcome to join the community. See you there! #influxdb

Friday is a great day to subscribe. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ (Ok, so any day is good, but why wait?)

If you are coming to tokio.conf or are in the Portland area on April 22 we are having holding a DataFusion meetup at OHSU -- thanks to Mustafa Akur for helping arrange the details. Signup here luma.com/dsp3ud82

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

We are holding an @ApacheDataFusio meetup on Wed April 22 in Portland: luma.com/dsp3ud82 Yes, this is a day before the meetup in Seattle/Bellevue on April 23 luma.com/hxshbp0m

We heard you: ADBC is great, but you need it on mainframes. Introducing ADBC for COBOL. The same connectors that work with Python, Rust, and Go now work with a language originally designed for punch cards. columnar.tech/blog/adbc-co...

The latest wallpaper from @lmnt.me is perfect. www.lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally, an LLM bench that makes any sense to me

Arctos Alliance (arctosalliance.org) is now officially launched! "If your organization depends on Arrow or Parquet or you’re interested in helping sustain these critical data technologies, we would welcome a conversation about how to get involved."

This was an extremely rational take on where we're at with AI and I appreciated the take on the whole SaaS-is-dead thing: redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

We're chuffed to announce Apache SedonaDB 0.3.0! This release features a rewritten join that supports larger-than-memory spatial/KNN joins courtesy of Kristin Cowalcijk, new functions, parameterized SQL queries, GDAL/pyogrio reads, GDAL/sf based reads in R, and the beginnings of an R DataFrame API!

Shipping today: @puzzmo.com has integrated support for @bsky.app The site/app have follower syncing, and a labeler so that you can spot new Puzzmo folks when browsing Bluesky posts www.puzzmo.com/bluesky blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...

We are covering 40 people's travel, lodging, and registration for posit::conf() this fall! If you are from a group that is underrepresented in data science or open source, please consider applying for the Opportunity Scholarship—we'd love to have you join. posit.co/blog/apply-t...

Really excited about this new blog post from my colleagues at @columnar.tech

A message from your ZX Spectrum.

📖 Apache Parquet recently added native support for Geospatial. This post explains what that means and why it is important: parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02...