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Claude's 5-hour session usage limit feels a bit like rested XP

Starting in mid-November, Discord will let you turn on channel summaries and even expose channel messages to the web, including to search engines. Surprising but welcome change.

Observable now has a default `db` in every notebook powered by @duckdb.org (wasm) that lets you query over file attachments. No setup, no preamble, just query! observablehq.com/@observableh...

Cats by Shou Xin

Excited to announce Apache SedonaDB 0.5.0! In this release is an improved interface for reading various file formats, DataFrame unnest()ing, improved raster functionality, an improved GeoPandas compatibility layer, ever more spatial functions, and the seeds of foreign catalog integration.

On the occasion of @arrow.apache.org adopting an official logo (see github.com/apache/arrow...), we’ll note that it, and @columnar.tech’s dbc, have been very helpful in rebuilding the notebook data connectors. Better development experience for us, more performant for you. Thank you! 🙏

I never need a reason to follow a new @jennschiffer.com joint, these are very good reasons nonetheless fridge-cigarettes.pckt.blog/ai-thought-d...

New #Shapely 2.2.0 feature release! 🎉 Shapely is a Python package to work with geometry objects (wrapping GEOS). The new release comes with Python 3.15 support, performance improvements, and several new functions -> shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/re... #python #geopython #geospatial

Congrats on the launch. This was the last gap for me in the v2 migration and now the (Arrow/ADBC-based) databases integration is really slick!

Thinking about this map of mosquito fleet ferry service that existed in the Puget Sound in 1901.

Second-biggest launch of 2026 is now the redesign of the redesign of example.com. 2026 is already shaping up to be a huge year.

Ever wonder what’s changed in InfluxDB since 2016? In this InfoQ deep dive, InfluxData CTO Paul Dix explains the 4½ year journey to re-architect InfluxDB around Rust and the FDAP stack, and the vision to go beyond a metrics store. Check it out: https://bit.ly/42NoMtj

Nic ( @niccrane.bsky.social) taught us all about FREAKING PARQUET FILES on the #DSLab, which are wayyyyy cooler than I realized. Parquet files: Preserve data types Are fast & small Are column-oriented so you can read just 1 col if wanted! & Positron displays'em out-the-box! ▶️ youtu.be/2mQ4kc9J9uQ

🦆 Working with RDF in DuckDB (@duckdb.org)? duck_rdf 2.8.3 is out with SPARQL enhancements, Turtle/quads export fixes, and performance improvements. Read, write, and query RDF alongside your SQL workflows. Release notes: github.com/nonodename/d... #KnowledgeGraphs #DuckDB

If anyone is interesting in signing up for the next DataFusion community showcase to describe their project, we have openings on Oct 29 -- let me know if you are interested

Software Heritage Identifiers nesbitt.io/2026/10/01/s... cc @softwareheritage.org

Heads up. Don't submit to CRAN right now. The CRAN submission system is currently broken, because Windows checks won't complete. If you submit your package will end up in the manual "inspection" queue. You'll see the same on win-builder R devel and R 4.6.1. The R 4.5.3 still works. #RStats

Forget about frontier lab model releases, the biggest launch of 2026 is this redesign of example.com. May very well be the launch of the decade.

gdb: thread apply all bt lldb: thread backtrace all okay, fine windbg: ~*kb wat?

This is a great Parquet file visualizer: huggingface.co/spaces/cfahl...

As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

Fresh off the press: ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Encoding in Apache Parquet parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/09... Thank you Kosta Tarasov, @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social, Prateek Gaur

Excited to be teaching again! Sign up for the Monday SedonaDB workshop to mostly learn about how query engines/databases can make large(r) data in Python less awkward!

Some great work here by the QuantStack team! Improving the Fortran on Wasm ecosystem and better NumPy performance in the browser notebook.link/blog/the-las...

The DAVE stack: the age of domain-optimized analytical databases on Datafusion, Arrow, and Vortex, Embedded sequenceandsilicon.substack.com/p/the-dave-s...

PNW is good

Loved this talk by @felienne.bsky.social - and the points about "hard" things being values over "simple" things resonated a lot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...

New post on the company blog that does a great job showing just how convoluted using ODBC is and how painless database access can be with ADBC and dbc: columnar.tech/blog/odbc-dr...

This release is cool for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that the new Observable does database access with ADBC and returns results as Arrow. And, as a bonus, it uses @columnar.tech 's dbc (dbc.how) to install drivers.

technology optimism hour, the reprise! last edition was in 2022. this edition: typescript 7, effect, long hardware update cycles, decentralized social media, and encrypted messaging macwright.com/2026/08/14/o...

“It kept demanding I also install other increasingly rare and venomous snakes before it would run” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🐍

Knytt has been faitfully recreated by @bitkidgames.com to run on current operating systems and was just released on Steam and GOG, completely free Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2656050/...

🛠️ hunk 0.17.0 is out Patches from 10 new contributors, w/ small fixes & quality-of-life improvements like: - official homebrew install (brew install hunk) - launch hunk w/o menu bar - better session reliability - esc no longer quits, proper transparent bg colours, & more

Make TPC-H data scale factor 10 faster than you can type the command (under 10 sec). The new release of tpchgen-cli is out -- try it via uvx uvx tpchgen-cli parquet --scale-factor=10 Huge thanks to @clflushopt.bsky.social and @kevinjqliu.bsky.social

We're excited to announce a new release of SedonaDB, and this one is a big one! Between native DataFrame APIs in Python and R, a brand new Geography implementation, GPU accelerated joins, and a raster/ND-array foundation, it's hard to know where to start.

Seems like a big deal: "The headline feature of 0.17.0 is a new mechanism that keeps more of your query running inside Comet instead of falling back to Spark: the JVM codegen dispatcher." datafusion.apache.org/blog/output/... h/t @samarchdb.bsky.social

My favorite Safari feature is how it auto-completes the URL you want to go to and then, mere milliseconds later, gets shy and removes the auto-completion, so my Google history is filled with a bunch of insane searches for two- and three-letter prefixes.

Apparently 14 years ago today I was in the village of Emmonak on the Yukon River taking pictures with a GoPro at 7:30 PM with the sun still high in the sky. This trip by itself was an incredible experience but so has the last 14 years.

Headline Features in Apache DataFusion 54: 1. Performance (now within 10% of ClickBench leaderboard) 2. Lambda Functions 3. Content defined chunking for Parquet 4. New AVRO reader 5. Better / faster joins + spilling datafusion.apache.org/blog/output/...

This week we announced a new ADBC driver for Apache DataFusion. DataFusion is Rust-native, but now you can use it from 10+ other languages through the same zero-copy Arrow ADBC interface that connects to 30+ other databases and query engines. Learn more: docs.adbc-drivers.org/drivers/data...