Almog

almog.xyz

03 March 2026 01:10

“Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s how adoption works when you’re building something new. Opendata is still "gradually" but 100 stars with $0 spent on marketing is a good start. Back to building! github.com/opendata-oss...

s2.dev

s2.dev

25 February 2026 19:22

The S2 cloud service is now GA! We also raised a $3.85M seed round led by Accel with participation from Y Combinator, and other funds and angels like @t3.gg @chris.blue @fulmicoton.bsky.social s2.dev/blog/ga

Almog

almog.xyz

10 February 2026 19:55

I implemented prefix compression for SlateDB & noticed benchmarks looked "worse". Fell down a rabbit hole. Turns out I was thinking about compression backwards... Wrote up my learning: www.bitsxpages.com/p/the-mathem...

Almog

almog.xyz

28 January 2026 22:40

Can you beat 180KB? I created a challenge to reduce a dataset as much as possible 🏆 my approach uses delta encoding & prefix compression + zstd(22) compression to reduce 25MB -> 180KB github.com/agavra/bit-g...

shikhar

schmizz.net

21 January 2026 17:42

s2-lite is here – an open source @s2.dev Stream Store! It's a single binary you can run anywhere. Powered by SlateDB, so you can point it at an object storage bucket for durable streams with real-time reads. github.com/s2-streamsto...