President Drumpf signs $300bn war guilt clause at Versailles in front of European powers.
Tobias Brandt
@snth.bsky.social
PRQL Evangelist, Chief Excel Officer, MAD* Scientist, Pythonista, Rustacian (*: ML, AI, Data)
Just vibe coded a 60 line POSIX script Bluesky client in the style of `finger` of old: github.com/snth/radar
GitHub - snth/radar: Finger protocol (RFC 1288) re-imagined for the AT Protocol (atproto) / Bluesky ecosystem
Finger protocol (RFC 1288) re-imagined for the AT Protocol (atproto) / Bluesky ecosystem - snth/radar
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How does AI feel about all those "Let us know you're human" banners?
This is awesome! The only thing better than being spoilt for choice is not having to choose at all.
Marco Slot@marcoslot.com · 9mo agopg_lake just went open source! (Apache 2.0) pg_lake is a set of extensions (from Crunchy Data Warehouse) that add comprehensive Iceberg support and data lake access to Postgres, with @duckdb.org transparently integrated into the query engine. Announcement blog: www.snowflake.com/en/engineeri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_V... "... is an influential treatise written by Albert O. Hirschman. The work hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that confronts consumers in the face of deteriorating quality of goods and services: either exit or voice."
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Wikipedia
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Why wouldn't you play your favourite song on repeat until the marginal utility of one more play is less than that of the next best song? Neurotypicals are so weird!
I only had a brief look but I quite like the look of this: github.com/johannschopp...
GitHub - johannschopplich/toon: 🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost
🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation – JSON for LLMs at half the token cost - johannschopplich/toon
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For anyone wondering about F3, here are links to the paper and current HackerNews discussion: pdf: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543... I haven't read it yet but based on the abstract and authors (incl. Wes McKinney & Andy Pavlo), I will be reading it.
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Simon Späti 🏔️@ssp.sh · 10mo agoData lake file formats. www.ssp.sh/brain/data-l...
Grindr outage during Charlie Kirk memorial buff.ly/nJuwZ88 2024: Grindr outage during Milwaukee RNC buff.ly/JELMirt 2008: Sydney brothels say pope’s visit will help business buff.ly/Ez96mBe I guess the story of the Pharisees just hit different for me.
Grind(e)r outages corresponding to Kirkapalooza are not causal or correlative
Needless to say a small sample size but amusing if only to ask about other such social networking sites. Perhaps apocryphal rather than apocalyptic. GROK The X post humorously links a Grindr outage…
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I've cancelled my @filmandseries.bsky.social subscription. "Sorry kids, but that orange 🤡 on TV is why we can't have nice things." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
Report on Burnout in Open Source Software
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
mirandaheath.website
How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? www.economist.com/business/202...
Watching the F1 Grand Prix at Monza, Italy this weekend, i was struck by how much the Parabolica resembles one half of the Circus Maximus. Le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose!
Compromise is the shared hypotenuse of the conjoined triangles of success.
* Rome's Senate approved sweeping constitutional changes on the Ides of February, allowing for an indefinite dictatorial term and extending it to a lifetime appointment.
1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...
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Database tables are unordered, but functional programming languages work best over ordered lists. Which should Morel prefer? Both! We now have "list" and "bag" types, and full relational algebra over both. blog.hydromatic.net/2025/06/06/o...
Ordered and unordered data
Despite what the relational model says, some data is ordered.
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Is it possible to do serious programming (such as solving Wordle) in a query language? If not, what's missing? The video of my DataCouncil talk is posted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwFs...
More Than Query Future Directions of Query Languages, from SQL to Morel
YouTube video by Data Council
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this is a pretty fun project! it is basically a decentralized WordPress plugin package manager, using DID PLC as an identifier and store for package signing keys; and atproto for discovery/indexing of plugins in the ecosystem. github.com/fairpm/fair-...
FAIR Package Manager@fair.pm · last yr.We're delighted to launch the FAIR Package Manager with the Linux Foundation - read our announcement and come collaborate with us! #FAIRPM www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...
The urge to start a podcast is equivalent to the urge to create a DSL* * (a domain-specific language, which is something the most genius and widely loved programmers do, everybody's stoked when I do it)
The journey of learning often feels like an intimate, and sometimes difficult, conversation. What follows are two voices in that dialogue An homage to #TheNational and #Rust # Hey Rust, I think I know just what the feeling is snth.prose.sh/hey_rust
The National - Hey Rosey (Official Video)
YouTube video by The National
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Friday evening vibe (coding? optional) youtu.be/VcvPwGbP-Qk?...
Parra for Cuva & Senoy [LIVE] @ Urban Spree Berlin
YouTube video by ParraforCuva
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made a small tool, because i was annoyed it didnt exist yet: searching your bluesky likes flo-bit.dev/search-blues...