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...

Releasing today: 'ProggyForever': a new MIT-licensed scalable font designed to closely match ProggyClean which happily served as Dear ImGui default font for 10+ years: github.com/ocornut/prog... The new font is now embedded by default in Dear ImGui (compressed down to ~14 KB).

Apache Arrow is 10 years old 🎉 The first git commit landed on 2016-02-05. Now Arrow has 10+ official implementations and a growing third-party ecosystem. Read our celebratory blog post for some tidbits of Arrow history, and our outlook on the present and future. arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02...

Reviewing release notes for projects I work on can be a trip. The PRs have my name on them and apparently I created them but I have zero memory of having worked on them. Is that bad?

We finally did it: Apache Arrow now has a security model. The Arrow security model doesn't cover any specific Arrow implementation, but it informs about pitfalls and guardrails when dealing with potentially untrusted data in one of the Arrow formats. @apache.org arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02...

They got the big game on at the bar

Let's use Windows NT 4 to compile Quake like it's 1997! fabiensanglard.net/compile_like...

In case you were curious if the bears are okay: www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... (They are)

📝 Restraint is becoming the only scarce thing left, which means saying “no” is more valuable than ever. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-...

This is in fact a good trick! And installing ADBC drivers is only a `uvx dbc` away.

Do the 2026 #python developers survey surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-de...

Fetch query results without ODBC / JDBC bottlenecks. The new ADBC driver for Databricks is now available in early release. Install it with dbc.

I finally got around to writing my first ADBC driver and it doesn't do anything (and that's the point!): amoeba.github.io/tiniest-adbc... #apachearrow

✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026 openscapes.org/blog/2026-01... 1/n

We're excited to announce the release of {arrow} 23.0.0 🏹📦 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

Arrow 23.0.0 was released on the 18th of January, check out some of the Release highlights on our announcement blog post: arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/01...

Writing a GeoPackage(GPKG) library from scratch taught me a lot about some friction between the spec and the modern geospatial ecosystem🦀🌍 GPKG is SQLite. We take that for granted, but have you ever stopped to think about the advantages and disadvantages? Here’s my take. dev.to/yutannihilat...

new thing at @val.town - every val gets a database! plus a database browser / ui. blog.val.town/scoped-datab... maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown

Congratulations to @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social on becoming the latest Parquet PMC member! Thank you, Andrew, for your leadership in the community. I look forward to our continued collaboration!

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Microsoft Solitaire haunted house

I'm seeing more tools for agent memory lately, like: www.letta.com github.com/dollspace-ga... crates.io/crates/decid... eddoapp.com is anyone that follows me using these or similar?

R Consortium webinar: Scaling up data analysis in R with Arrow. Learn larger-than-memory workflows, why Parquet matters, and where DuckDB fits—w/ Dr Nic Crane (Arrow R maintainer; Apache Arrow PMC). Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sca... #rstats #arrow @niccrane.bsky.social

Alaskans have always been leaders and that would appear to be the case on AI generated artwork www.urgentmatter.press/alaska-stude...

Stunt Island The Assembly Line / Walt Disney Computer Software 1992 In this game you can position cameras on the island, program the movement of objects, fly with aircrafts and then edit your own stunt movies. This is the "location scouting" demo that comes with the game, showing the scenery.

I think it's incredibly stupid. LLMs are not sentient in any sense, they do not engage in self reflection. this is part of my point, there is a vast unexplored space between saying LLMs are sentient and saying they are stochastic parrots and both ends are an abdication of intellectual responsibility

Nice to see the dream of RDF in #rstats is still alive with cboettig.github.io/roxigraph/ from @cboettig.bsky.social. docs.ropensci.org/rdflib/ was a great improvement of redlands-bindings and roxigraph looks what I'd daily drive if I were still doing RDF.

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...