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uwemaurer

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About uwemaurer

https://bsky.app/profile/uwemaurer.bsky.social

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    Comment #48834600

    Looks great! How does it compare to Zulip? we self host zulip and are quite happy with it

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    Comment #48047356

    Yes, I tried it to generate a cool profile stats video for Bluesky, for example see here: https://bluefacts.app/video/bsky.app

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    Comment #47865487

    I benchmarked DuckDB 1.5.2 with the latest Java JDBC driver which now supports user defined functions. This allows very fast modifications https://sqg.dev/blog/java-duckdb-benchmar…

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    Comment #47584672

    Great article, I always like to structure my queries with CTEs and I was (wrongly) assuming it all gets inlined at the end. Sometimes it also gets complicated since these intermedi…

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    Comment #47458269

    17 years ago we launched the first "Chuck Norris Facts" app for Android (March 2009). It was a big success until end of 2010 when Chuck Norris sent his lawyers after us to get the …

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    Comment #47302294

    Thank you for the suggestion!

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    Comment #47204625

    Great! I will give it a try. I found that using DuckDB to select from the parquet files and using the Apache Arrow API to read the results is also a very fast method

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    Comment #46897145

    This is great! It would be a cool feature to integrate with SQG. there you currently need to provide the sequence of migration steps to get the full schema. https://github.com/sqg-…

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    Comment #46829878

    Here are some independent stats: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

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    Comment #46812535

    I recently benchmarked different SQlite implementations/driver for Node. Better-sqlite3 came out on top of this test: https://sqg.dev/blog/sqlite-driver-benchmark/

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    Comment #46704188

    I like it. Is it also possible to block all filesystem access and only allow certain directories / files? Currently it seems to allow read access by default and only allows to bloc…

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    Comment #46651134

    We use DuckDB to process analytics and feeds for Bluesky ( https://bluefacts.app ) To get fast access to the query results we use the Apache Arrow interface and generate the code d…

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    Show HN: SQG – Compile SQL (SQLite,DuckDB) to TypeScript/Java Code

    I developed SQG because I had to access a SQLite and a DuckDB database from Java and from Typescript and was unhappy about maintaining the DB access code twice. Also for larger ana…

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    Comment #45632997

    how do you like my hackernews frontend: https://news.facts.dev/

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    Comment #44909033

    Here are more detailed stats: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

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    Comment #44541242

    Bluesky / ATProto is very open, this makes it possible to track the exact statistics how the platform is growing (or shrinking currently): https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth…

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    Comment #44502846

    Bluesky has still a lot to catch up: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

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    Comment #44370256

    This is a nice dashboard showing Bluesky User Growth and Active Users. It has trend charts and different time ranges: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth Recently it looks li…

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    Comment #44082916

    I use es-toolkit. It is fully in Typescript. Every function can be imported without any extra overhead, for simple functions it just adds a few bytes then to the bundle. I doubt "b…