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Bryce 1.0 (1995)

There's a new Apache Arrow minor release. See some of the details about 18.1.0. arrow.apache.org/blog/2024/11/2…

This uses #apachearrow in a few critical places. Awesome to see.

Obsidian 1.8.0 lets you open external links in tabs so you can multi-task on research projects, or quickly read an article without losing focus

Windows XP Christmas theme in 2004

Christmas at the Scumm Bar 🍻

Xmas Lemmings (1991)

The browser based parquet viewer parquet-viewer.xiangpeng.systems is pretty sweet -- let's you explore the file format, including schema and layout, and data with SQL. Natch it is based on ApacheDataFusion

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DOOM: The Gallery Experience. bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-galle…

2025 is shaping up to be a breakout year for fast query result transfer with ApacheArrow. But what exactly makes it so fast? David Li, Matt Topol, and I break it down in this new blog post: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/01/1…

#apachearrow

With the latest version of Pyodide (0.27.1), you can run %pip install ibis-framework[duckdb] to get an expressive, lightning-fast, and *entirely-in-browser* dataframe API! Give it a try at ibis-project.org/tutorials/brow…

Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC.

A pink baby king crab has been dubbed the "cutest, spikiest, tiniest crab in the world" by NOAA after scientists discovered it during an operation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Armin Ronacher ⇌ This is what substrait.io was designed to solve.