Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Recovery from that is not something one can easily handle. It's a long slow and usually painful recovery process that requires deep commitment.

Many of us have experienced burn out.. but some of us have seen worse. Engineering truly can lead you to places that both matter a great deal and remind use we were never enough, we were just the people there at the time. Longer I am in this career the more humble I get as each successive challenge hammers me into something different than I was before.

I love it. But god ... sometimes the choose your own adventure goes awry.

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Still many things to add/polish before moving to the next planned measurements: estimates of buffering/serialization/transmission times, BGP flapping events, some weird conditions that I've noticed and would like to flag, and proper display of loops.

Will probably attempt another show-HN when I'm happy with that.

Approaching the home stretch for a first 1.0 preview release, including: support for parsing Parquet files with flat and nested schemas, all physical and logical column types, core and advanced encodings, projections, compression, multi-threading, etc. all that with a pretty decent performance.

Next on the roadmap are SIMD support, predicate push-down (bloom filters, statistics, etc.), writer support.