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Working on open source, mostly Apache Arrow (
https://arrow.apache.org
)
pinned post!
Claude's 5-hour session usage limit feels a bit like rested XP
3 months ago
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Dustin Mierau
about 21 hours ago
The latest wallpaper from
@lmnt.me
is perfect.
www.lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...
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PDX
https://www.lmnt.me/blog/wallpapers/pdx.html
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Darren Dahly
7 days ago
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....
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Finally, an LLM bench that makes any sense to me
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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."
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Arctos Alliance - Open Collective
Support the committers powering the world’s open data infrastructure.
https://arctosalliance.org/
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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...
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Besieged
As the last digit on the calendar rolled over from five to six, it took less than a month to realize the coming year was going to be different than the year that preceded it. Arguably the stage was se...
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/02/10/besieged/
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Dewey Dunnington
14 days ago
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!
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Orta Therox
21 days ago
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...
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Simon P. Couch
21 days ago
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...
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Really excited about this new blog post from my colleagues at
@columnar.tech
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29 days ago
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Sinclair Research
about 1 month ago
A message from your ZX Spectrum.
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Andrew Lamb
about 1 month ago
đź“– 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...
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Good Trailcams
about 1 month ago
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Bodega Cats
about 1 month ago
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Omar
about 1 month ago
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).
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Apache Arrow
about 1 month ago
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...
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Apache Arrow is 10 years old 🎉
The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10...
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/12/arrow-anniversary/
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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?
about 1 month ago
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Apache Arrow
about 1 month ago
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...
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Introducing a Security Model for Arrow
We are thrilled to announce the official publication of a Security Model for Apache Arrow. The Arrow security model covers a core subset of the Arrow specifications: the Arrow Columnar Format, the Arr...
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/09/arrow-security-model/
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Logan Dean
about 1 month ago
They got the big game on at the bar
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Fabien Sanglard
about 2 months ago
Let's use Windows NT 4 to compile Quake like it's 1997!
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In case you were curious if the bears are okay:
www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad...
(They are)
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Are Bears in Winter Okay Buried Under Deep Snow?, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Alaska Wildlife News is an online magazine published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=4157
about 2 months ago
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Jim Nielsen
about 2 months ago
📝 Restraint is becoming the only scarce thing left, which means saying “no” is more valuable than ever.
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Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-no/
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This is in fact a good trick! And installing ADBC drivers is only a `uvx dbc` away.
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about 2 months ago
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Scott
about 2 months ago
Do the 2026
#python
developers survey
surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-de...
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Python Developers Survey 2026
The official Python Developers Survey 2026. Join and contribute to the community knowledge!
https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-developers-survey-2026
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Columnar
about 2 months ago
Fetch query results without ODBC / JDBC bottlenecks. The new ADBC driver for Databricks is now available in early release. Install it with dbc.
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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...
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tiny.c
https://amoeba.github.io/tiniest-adbc-driver/
about 2 months ago
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Openscapes
about 2 months ago
✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026
openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...
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Nic Crane
about 2 months ago
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
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Changelog
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/
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Apache Arrow
about 2 months ago
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...
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Apache Arrow 23.0.0 Release
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 23.0.0 release. This release covers over 3 months of development work and includes 336 resolved issues on 417 distinct commits from 71 distinct contrib...
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/01/18/23.0.0-release/
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Yutani
about 2 months ago
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...
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How it feels to write a GPKG library in 2026 (in Rust!)
There are a lot of existing libraries to deal with GeoPackage (GPKG). GDAL is the undisputed champion...
https://dev.to/yutannihilation/how-it-feels-to-write-a-gpkg-library-in-2026-in-rust-52mg
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Tom MacWright
about 2 months ago
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.
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Every val gets a database!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
https://blog.val.town/scoped-databases
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Maggie Appleton
2 months ago
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
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
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Julien Le Dem
2 months ago
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!
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Benj Edwards
over 1 year ago
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Microsoft Solitaire haunted house
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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?
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Letta
The platform for stateful agents. Build AI agents with long-term memory, advanced reasoning, and custom tools using the Letta API and Agent Development Environment (ADE).
https://www.letta.com
2 months ago
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R Consortium
2 months ago
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
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Alaskans have always been leaders and that would appear to be the case on AI generated artwork
www.urgentmatter.press/alaska-stude...
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Alaska student arrested for eating another's A.I. artwork
At the time he was arrested, Granger was allegedly “chewing and spitting out” artwork made by Nick Dwyer.
https://www.urgentmatter.press/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-artwork/
2 months ago
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MS-DOS Games, Programs, Trivia, Pixels, Grog
2 months ago
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.
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conputer dipshit
8 months ago
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
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Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early
How old theories explain the new technology of LLMs
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/cultural-theory-was-right-about-the
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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.
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RDF and SPARQL for R using Oxigraph
Provides RDF storage and SPARQL 1.1 query capabilities by wrapping the Oxigraph graph database library. Supports in-memory and persistent (RocksDB) storage, multiple RDF serialization formats (Turtle,...
https://cboettig.github.io/roxigraph/
2 months ago
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Thomas Ptacek
2 months ago
This is a perfect piece of technical writing.
alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
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joshua stein
2 months ago
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
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loren schmidt
2 months ago
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.
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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...
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Michael Tsai - Blog - 1Password Browser Extension Code Injection
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/07/1password-browser-extension-code-injection/
2 months ago
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Human Brain Enthusiast
2 months ago
“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source:
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The lie in tamer
3 months ago
Cheeseburgers are not natural. My Graph is up on Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
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Jeaye Wilkerson
2 months ago
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...
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How to stick with your projects, even when they're janky - Wilkerson
YouTube video by ClojureTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alfq8RG80Ns
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joshua stein
2 months ago
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a printer.
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I came for the tip on Claude Code hooks (for sounds) but this entire post was worth a careful read:
matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/
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AI Zealotry - Matthew Rocklin
Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.
https://matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/
2 months ago
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Dustin Mierau
2 months ago
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.
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Macintosh Apple event 1984 | Showing off MacPaint and MacWrite
YouTube video by Everything Important
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CvOCcXSPmk
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Noam Ross
2 months ago
🚀 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...
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Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!
You can now apply to participate in the 2026 Champions Program. We are looking for people to participate in mentoring roles and to become Champions.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/12/programchamps2026/
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