I chatted with Branimir Lambov from IBM on a decade of contributing to Cassandra, including his recent work to replace the Skiplist in Cassandra's LSM tree with a Trie. (no paywall) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26...

Fikk norsk statsborgerskap i dag. Bra det. 🇳🇴 ❤️

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️ This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes. Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6.... News: github.com/apache/cassa... Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...

Don't let AI make you lazy

New blog post, on the changing role of principal/staff+ IC leaders: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03... Core message: get building, get learning.

where norwegians hide

ChatGPT to Claude migration complete 💪🏽 #QuitGPT

The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways for consumers to resist, accompanied by this satirical video. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

otava.apache.org Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF

Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!

Giving @vivaldi.com a go, switching from Firefox. I like it! Being norwegian is a bonus! The inbuilt proton vpn was a very pleasant surprise, having a proton account already.

indeed. "when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her." stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...

Bad Bunny's superbowl performance was pure brilliance. Last time I saw anything that good was Childish Gambino's This is America. But it was the opposite of dark and cynical, and live!

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

Aftersun (2022) is another movie rated 7+ in Scandinavia and R in USA. One of the best movies I've watched. watched with the family. So many things in america are now the opposite of common sense. Pilgrims might have gone there for religious freedoms, but the tables have certainly turned now.

Sharing my 2025 Apache Cassandra Year in Review and Gratitudes – lists.apache.org/thread/ztzzr...

This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix. Incredible. Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link. I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.

"The Holdovers" is the perfect (quality) family xmas movie. it's also hilarious americans have rated it R while Sweden rates it 7 and Italy 6. (ps you can trust sweden and italy)

The Bear episode "Fishes" (s02e06) is our new pre-xmas tradition. bring on some family time 😁

😂 all i can say is yes… www.instagram.com/reel/DQpNltc...

Learned about Wanaku #MCP Router project, a brand new OSS by IBM/RedHat presented by lead developer @orpiske.net at #DevoxxMA Uses Apache Camel for routing 👀 github.com/wanaku-ai/wana…

Friendly reminder NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does

The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me: Speed isn’t health. Community is.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

84% say open source is vital to finance’s future. 93% report better software quality. The data is clear, open collaboration is driving the next wave of innovation in financial services. 📘 Watch the highlights + read the full report: www.linuxfoundation.org/research/the... #OpenSource

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

Libraries have really gotten noisy …or i've gotten old.

Watched for the second time Stranger Things 4’ Episode 4 (‘Running Up That Hill’) Just as magical as the first time. Has to be one of the best on tv.

My input on Australia's social media ban for children. Particularly on the implementation of it. …

"The greatest benefit of an API mock is that it lets consumers perform integration tests even before you implement the API. Being able to test how the API would behave as early as possible is what enables the alignment with consumers." apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-api-mo...

TIL italians drive boats in venice like they drive cars in rome 😳😬😱

i just found all my answers

good article, cause i'm soooo tired of "smart" people and their tech erections over nuclear

The centerpiece of The ASF's new logo is an oak leaf, which represents the enduring power of our ethos: community over code. To learn more about why we chose an oak leaf and to see our new brand guidelines, check out this blog: buff.ly/lR8XNas #opensource #communityovercode

Join us at Community over Code's Cassandra Track, Fri Sept 12th for Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix Cheng Wang and Joshua Lopes www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 11-14

It's strange to think that patriarchal norms can affect the way we build software, but they do. I'm happy to share that the article my wife, Vanessa, and I wrote has been published in the @nljug.bsky.social Java magazine. It was our first time writing an article together, and it was...

Pre-commit CI for Apache Cassandra is now available for our non-affiliated contributors+committers pre-ci.cassandra.apache.org Thanks to a significant AWS credits donation from Amazon, and built on a cool K8s Helm Jenkins setup on auto-scaling node groups. Read more lists.apache.org/thread/8pjk4...

Whenever someone shares a performance comparison of programming languages, many folks are surprised to see #Java rank up very high. I think by now it's kinda criminal how underrated Java and the JVM are in circles not familiar with it. This misconception is the biggest challenge for this platform.

Yesterday’s meetup was a tremendous success 🎉 Uber welcomed the vibrant Cassandra community to our Sunnyvale office, 80+ attendees from diverse backgrounds & experiences. The energy in the room was incredible. A big win for Cassandra, and a big win for open source!

badged up 😎 🤓 new chapter begins

surviving another monday 😇

Cassandra Team at Apple is searching for a fresh grad / person early in their career to join our ranks in SF/Bay Area! Come work on super interesting problems with world class team. Help us build better Cassandra! Ping me if you’re interested! jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Folks, our #ApacheCamel #Quarkus team is hiring an engineer in #Ireland. This is a senior level position and a great opportunity to make an impact on the future of open source #middleware, #cloud and enterprise integration. ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/career...

home office summer challenges

Spot on. Great write up from @patrickmcfadin.bsky.social www.datastax.com/blog/cassand...

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Going on vacation for two weeks, and this week has felt like a manic friday "get all your shit done in a hurry" every single day on repeat 😳

Very cool. Introducing Support Vector Graph (SVG), and interpreting that most popular graph indices: including HNSW and DiskANN; are specializations of it. arxiv.org/abs/2506.20584 These are the folk working on JVector, the vector similarity search implementation used in C*, AstraDB, OpenSearch, …