A reflection on a 30th college reunion, discussing AI anxiety and nostalgia for a student-built multiplayer Tetris game called BattleTris.
Explores lifting e-graphs, a technique to handle variable binding in equality saturation by treating context as part of a term.
Dive Exporter is an iOS/macOS app that downloads dives from Bluetooth dive computers and exports them as UDDF files, offering a vendor-neutral solution.
Analysis of rising demand for forward deployed engineers at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with trends in AI-focused hiring.
Analysis of rising demand for Forward Deployed Engineers at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with simplified hiring and outsourced deployment.
Announcement of Marten 9.0, Polecat 4.0, and Wolverine 6.0 releases with performance improvements and AOT compliance.
Building DCAloop, an automated Bitcoin DCA Rails app that connects to Binance for recurring buys and sells.
Validating home lab capabilities for VMware Avi Load Balancer and vSphere Supervisor setup on VCF 9.
How to run your personal life from a git repo using Claude Code, markdown files, and GitHub Actions for task management.
Comparison of Iceberg catalog control planes: Polaris, Unity Catalog, and Cloud REST for lakehouse architecture.
A guide on automating Iceberg table maintenance to prevent small file accumulation, covering compaction, vacuuming, and modern tools.
Explores data clean rooms for privacy-preserving analytics, covering core guarantees, platforms like Databricks and AWS, and real-world use cases.
Explores building modular query engines using Rust runtimes like Apache DataFusion, focusing on composability over monolithic designs.
A practical analysis of data mesh implementation, covering what works and what doesn't after years of production use.
Explores how dbt Fusion, a Rust-based rewrite of dbt Core, transforms analytics engineering by treating SQL as first-class code with AST parsing and static analysis.
Explores using DuckDB and Polars to query and write to Iceberg tables, covering new features, workflows, and practical patterns.
Explains how to use the FOCUS 1.3 open billing standard for FinOps on data warehouses, enabling cost attribution and optimization across providers.
Explains how to design governed RAG systems using data products, separating retrieval and governance for accurate, policy-compliant AI responses.
Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper, introduces KRaft mode, new consumer rebalance protocol, and queues for Kafka, impacting platform operations.
Explains how Apache Iceberg V3 improves CDC pipelines with deletion vectors and row lineage, solving delete file accumulation.
