George Chiramattel

@georgeck.me

Lifelong learner | Exploring topics mostly related to technology & sharing knowledge. Previously: Intuit Inc.

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 2d ago

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” 🦆 This is the biggest #DuckDB feature release ever, and it's shipping a polished version of the Quack protocol for DuckDB-as-a-server, async I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible SQL parser and more – read on for details.

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 2.0.0 LTS, codenamed “Cinnamon Teal” (Spatula cyanoptera). This is our biggest feature release so far, and it ships a pol...

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📊 LayerChart: a new dimension New in v2.6.0, `view={isometric}` can be passed to any Chart to add a tilted perspective to your Svg, Canvas, and Html layers. Going further, use the `z` accessor to add (faux) 3D depth rendering for most marks.

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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