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DuckDB's development team in Amsterdam has started getting DuckDB v2.0 ready for release in October. If you like shiny new things, try out the alpha releases now and report anything that might not be working as expected!
A terminal monitor for debugging HLS, DASH and internet live streams.
Speaking of things we know individually, but let slide collectively, here’s Jeremy Keith talking about how we all used Flash: Remember when almost every website had a Flash intro? Everyone knew they were annoying and uneccessary, but everyone else was ...
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. ...
Well, I say behind-closed-doors. It turns out that if I wanted to watch a prerecorded saunter through a chunk of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt’s Songs of the Past expansion, I could have just tuned into the Gamescom livestream, rather ...
Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability linkedin2md: turn your LinkedIn export into 40+ Markdown files ...
“They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building garbage! Why can’t I build my own text editor? VS Code is built ...
You there. Have you completed the RPS Supporters survey? You don’t even need to be a Supporter. In fact, it’s better for certain questions if you aren’t. Either way, this is your chance to play a part in making sure ...
A runbook for serving a model too big for one GPU: download to serving in seven steps, with every vLLM flag, startup log line and real error explained, plus tensor, pipeline and expert parallelism benchmarked head to head on a ...
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can overtake sidewalks, houses, ...
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests Netflix provide some feedback buttons to indicate the kinds of experiences ...
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane controller are now fully stable and ...
It’s my birthday! Well, it was a couple of days ago. I was busy. Here’s an element that I made all by myself.
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get ...
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks ...
Over the bank holiday weekend I read The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada. This is the first physical novel I’ve read in years (I read ebooks). And the first novel I’ve read — not listened to — in months ...
A hands-on comparison of Istio sidecar and ambient mode for zero-trust service mesh. Same app, same policy, two architectures proven step by step on a local cluster.
The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, ...
A large purple hand holds a pendulum swinging one man between standing arms-wide on a ship's prow in warm sienna and collapsed head-in-hands in a purple office chair/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp One thing I keep forgetting and relearni...
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. ...
Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.
Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing: GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed ...
The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter. Ukrainian is a very melodic language and sounds lovely in verse, which is why I just assumed the book ...
It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.
/goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was ...
Saturdays are for actually remembering that it's a Bank Holiday weekend, rather than forgetting and coming in on Monday and getting viciously annoyed with Julian and Mark for seeming to ignore your Gchat messages. (They do that anyway, regardless of ...
Whenever I need to eke out some extra intelligence from an LLM, I ask it to speak to me in a British accent.
Clause 5 asked whether leadership owns the system. Clause 6 asks what leadership plans to do with it. This is the clause where the standard stops describing structure and starts demanding foresight. It has three parts: actions to address risks ...
