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DuckLake’s data inlining stores small updates directly in the catalog, eliminating the “small files problem” and making continuous streaming into data lakes practical. Our benchmark shows 926× faster queries and 105× faster ingestion when compared to Iceberg.
A closer analysis on the airspace around Mumbai's BOM/VABB (CSMIA) Airport. Questioning the intuitions from memories and answering and reasoning through the data.
When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The difference is the ...
… is what I’m reading far too often! Some of you are losing faith! A growing sentiment amongst my peers — those who haven’t already resigned to an NPC career path† — is that blogging is over. Coding is cooked. ...
These are the historical pranks I consider the top 10 most noteworthy, rather than the “best.” You’ll see that some of them crossed the line and/or backfired. Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time originally handwritten ...
A deep sniff of the new CSS Olfactive API, a set of proposed features for immersive user experiences using smell. Sniffing Out the CSS Olfactive API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter ...
WordPress and its plugins are notorious for some of the gnarliest CSS selectors and specificity wars you’ll see this side of the galaxy. WP Grid Builder is a prime example. Excellent functionality. It even provides a no-code design interface. But ...
The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home ...
Over the decades, Humans have proved to be pretty bad at producing bug-free software. Trying to apply our approximative, fuzzy thoughts to perfectly logical computers seems doomed. While the practice
DuckDB now speaks Dutch! Load the EendDB community extension and start writing your queries in het Nederlands.
In this post we'll be building a fullstack web app with server-side rendered (SSR) HTML using Rust and Maud. This post continues our series on building webapps with Rust: Build a Simple Single-File R...
It has recently come to my attention that people need a thousand lines of C code to read my website. This is unacceptable. For simpler clients, my server supports gopher: /* HTML tags, keywords, commands */ h-n {color: #F27;} /* ...
While gopher is usually seen as a proto-web, it's really closer to FTP. It has no markup format, no links and no URLs. Files are arranged in a hierarchically, and can be in any format. This rigid structure allows clients ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in March 2026.
A terminal first monitor configurator and daemon for Hyprland.
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went ...
There is a tiny wild sun trapped inside my crystal tower. I hear its garbled voice and catch the yellow of its fire through the blinding white blocks of the summit. The tower itself is so bright on the outside ...
Short n’ sweet but ever so neat, this issue covers light/dark favicons, @mixin, anchor-interpolated morphing, object-view-box, new web features, and more. What’s !important #8: Light/Dark Favicons, @mixin, object-view-box, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should ...
“Even though it may seem like the industry is now made up entirely of tech grifter “AI” bros and vibe-coded websites are seen as the new standard in development: Craftsmanship isn’t dead, it thrives thanks to people like you and ...
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that made me close my laptop for about ...
My dad’s a sports fan and I’ve been asking him about famous games he attended. This weekend he told me about the time he took my mom to see his alma mater Cornell play Navy in Annapolis in 1962. He ...
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase, ...
When James and I published our impressions of anime racer Screamer the other week, I mentioned I was keen to give its online races a go once it’d pulled out of the garage. Would the sights and sounds of sliding ...
That gap between "the form works" and "the business works" is something we don't really tend to discuss much as front-enders. We focus a great deal on user experience, validation methods, and accessibility, yet we overlook what the data does ...
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
“This is somewhat of a thought experiment, thinking is still free, so let’s indulge.”The Cognitive Dark Forest is fun — by “fun” I mean existential dystopian nightmare. It only works if AI progress hasn’t already stalled. I have a blog ...
Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our ...
What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It? — Harry Roberts explains all with clear examples and gotchas. I’ve used contain sparingly but with this guide I’ll be more confident. Side note: I considered the effect of contain: ...
Since roughly // broadly 2020, I’ve been running a solo-powered minor empire. I have no employees, and my only office is my home office, filled as it is with cat hair and various comic books. My business is: me, a ...
My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this ...
Sundays are for deciding to re-watch The Sopranos. Specifically that episode in which Tony gets a bad tummy and then talks to a fish. You wonder what you might fever dream of, if you too were to go and eat ...
