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As someone who lives in central San Francisco: Costco is amazing with a cargo bike (or Waymo off-peak). Haven't had Amazon Prime for 2+ years and don't miss it, but would definitel…

If you're reading this and curious: consider writing a duckdb community extension* or contributing to an existing one* duckdb is becoming a kind of data superglue between a lot of …

Not yet. That said… think duckdb/ducklake/quack could potentially be a future replacement for Mimir or Clickstack with way less operational complexity.

Been working on open-source projects involving storing and querying observability data (metrics, logs, traces) in parquet[0] and have been frustrated with the usability of Apache I…

sprites.dev / fly.io has publicly said they are using a variant of JuiceFS for the object-storage-to-VM-filesystem stuff, it's cool tech. * https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implement…

The Claude Code analytics space is really interesting to me right now as well, this is cool. I'm coming at it from more of the data infrastructure side (e.g. send all of your logs …

High-quality digital twins of complex software does not bode well at all for a lot of SaaS companies. For customers, it makes migrations much easier and less-risky between vendors.…

Personally: love the decorator pattern after I got used to it :) Posted this yesterday as well, but seems like a really nice emerging pythonic way to call out to remote infrastruct…

This looks cool, love the approach of a more "pythonic" infra as code -- have also noticed this pattern in Modal [1] and Ray [2] and all for it. [1] https://modal.com/docs/examples…

We need more rigorous benchmarks for SRE tasks, which is much easier said that done. The only other benchmark I've come across is https://sreben.ch/ ... certainly there must be oth…

Anthropic ships an official plugin to create linters for you based on your Claude Code history or instructions, it’s great. You can vibe code your lint rules per repo. https://gith…

This is part of a bigger consolidation trend, AI hype or not: which general-purpose data vendor gets to store and query all of your observability and business data? Snowflake acqui…

This is an emerging pattern that’s surprisingly powerful: thick clients that embed wasm query engines (pglite, duckdb) and do powerful analytics (with or without AI agents writing …

Agree with the author, will add: duckdb is an extremely compelling choice if you’re a developer and want to embed analytics in your app (which can also run in a web browser with wa…

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Kudos to Ben for speaking to one of the elephants in the room in observability: data waste and the impact it has on your bill. All major vendors have a nice dashboard and sometimes…

This is great. If you’re skeptical, vibe coding in the go is great because of how async the agentic coding workflows can be. Nothing like fixing a bug in the dentist office. Lots o…

Thanks for the PR, blame myself for the issue more than Claude :) Forgot OTLP log bodies could be arrays/non-strings and was not a test case.

The blog post is not, the rust glue code is.

Side project: exploring storing and querying OpenTelemetry data with duckdb, open table formats, and cheap object storage with some rust glue code. Yesterday, AWS made this exact s…

Been experimenting with OpenTelemetry->Parquet conversion lately for logs, metrics, and traces. Lots of related projects popping up in this area. It's powerful and cheap. - https:/…

My favorite "malleable" example this past week that I recommend: using Gen AI to rewrite, customize, or create dotfiles* for your laptop/desktop. Defining a bespoke system config w…

Hey, it's not well known but Anthropic actually publishes their own devcontainer feature layer for this (1). Many different CLI wrappers and tools are starting to imbed it (2) but …

similar: blink + tailscale + zellij + devcontainers