Make TPC-H data scale factor 10 faster than you can type the command (under 10 sec). The new release of tpchgen-cli is out -- try it via uvx uvx tpchgen-cli parquet --scale-factor=10 Huge thanks to @clflushopt.bsky.social and @kevinjqliu.bsky.social

We're excited to announce a new release of SedonaDB, and this one is a big one! Between native DataFrame APIs in Python and R, a brand new Geography implementation, GPU accelerated joins, and a raster/ND-array foundation, it's hard to know where to start.

Seems like a big deal: "The headline feature of 0.17.0 is a new mechanism that keeps more of your query running inside Comet instead of falling back to Spark: the JVM codegen dispatcher." datafusion.apache.org/blog/output/... h/t @samarchdb.bsky.social

My favorite Safari feature is how it auto-completes the URL you want to go to and then, mere milliseconds later, gets shy and removes the auto-completion, so my Google history is filled with a bunch of insane searches for two- and three-letter prefixes.

thought about this and had to write it, the gist is that it's weird and bad for people to use llms to try and get people to care about them or their projects and the mean take that unfortunately i believe is that most people are cowards when it comes to writing and art macwright.com/2026/06/24/a...

Apparently 14 years ago today I was in the village of Emmonak on the Yukon River taking pictures with a GoPro at 7:30 PM with the sun still high in the sky. This trip by itself was an incredible experience but so has the last 14 years.

Headline Features in Apache DataFusion 54: 1. Performance (now within 10% of ClickBench leaderboard) 2. Lambda Functions 3. Content defined chunking for Parquet 4. New AVRO reader 5. Better / faster joins + spilling datafusion.apache.org/blog/output/...

This week we announced a new ADBC driver for Apache DataFusion. DataFusion is Rust-native, but now you can use it from 10+ other languages through the same zero-copy Arrow ADBC interface that connects to 30+ other databases and query engines. Learn more: docs.adbc-drivers.org/drivers/data...

New SIMD improvements make Parquet column reads up to 80% faster on baseline ARM64 and SVE. Shipping with @arrow.apache.org 25.0. Work done @quantstack.bsky.social with support from a generous sponsor. medium.com/@AntoineProu...

#Rstats package update: zip 3.0.0 with some very cool new things: password protected zip files, vectorized and concurrent unzip(), unzip over HTTP, progress bars. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/zip/re...

You don't 'need therapy', you need to use parquet file format. The arrow package would fix you.

This week we released an ADBC driver for Quack, @duckdb.org’s new native client-server protocol. Now you can query remote DuckDB servers using the same ADBC interface you already use for local DuckDB across 7+ languages—no third-party server extensions required. columnar.tech/blog/quack-a...

sorry to cuss but what in tarnation

Today we launched Ribbit — An Anagram game where you'll find every word — live to everyone! Letters are only linked if they're used in a word. As you find words, the grid prunes itself. By the end, there's just one word left. Then frogs sing to you. Play here: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

I'm considering submitting an application to the "Open Source for the Life Sciences Fund" + would love to hear from the community, specifically folks in life sciences, about any work that you'd like to see on Arrow, & the impact it'd have #rstats #apachearrow #opensource #lifesciences #biotech

im not proud of my results on todays mini but im sharing it anyway because it's one of the best crosswords i have ever played. just a totally unbelievable achievement. I bet if you try it you'll even do better than me! puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...

I updated my demo to show zero-copy handover to DuckDB, all in Wasm: amoeba.github.io/arrow-r-wasm/. This is actually what I wanted to demo originally anyway.

Demo at amoeba.github.io/arrow-r-wasm/. I've never had to do so little work to add support for a new platform. Thanks to @gws.phd and team for Web-R and @jeroenooms.bsky.social for the R-Universe infra.

Same energy?

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...