Alex Gude

alexgude.com

23 September 2026 17:02

My robot (Astra) is currently arguing with me over Snowflake query cost optimization and declaring that we're blocked until we make it cheaper... 🫠

Pardis

djpardis.com

02 August 2026 15:52

I'm recently back from @localfirstconf.com. I presented on Cueport, a local-first music player for DJs. Why a music player for DJs? And why local-first? Find out here ▶ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrB...

Martin Kleppmann

martin.kleppmann.com

01 August 2026 09:42

My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...

DuckDB

duckdb.org

31 July 2026 19:56

` Asynchronous I/O in #DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work ` It doesn't matter how fast query operators are in a database system if we can't pull in the data quickly. For most of DuckDB's history, this problem was largely avoided by pruning data early. As usual, things changed: duckdb.org/2026/07/31/a...

Martin Kleppmann

martin.kleppmann.com

13 June 2026 21:50

The fact that the US government specifically ordered the suspension of Fable access to non-US citizens (www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...) raises exactly the kind of technological sovereignty concerns I discussed in my QCon keynote a few months ago (www.infoq.com/presentation...)