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Software developer working on all things arrow and columnar storage, currently, Lance.
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The most realistic part of Ready Player One is when IOI refuses to let Parzival work from home when they make their offer for him to consult. Despite the entire job being in the oasis.

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Kids complain my jokes take forever and the punchline is lame. Here's a 15,000 word / 4 post blog series explaining why they're wrong.

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Another blog about columnar storage details! I'm almost done with this series...just a few more to go. blog.lancedb.com/columnar-fil...

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I like to think my review style is a mature balance between "pedantic gatekeeper" and "YOLO" but maybe it's more of a superposition.

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I can't deal with the fact that cannot has a contraction but I can not deal with it so I'm ok.

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Saw my first sun halo today (or I experienced my first abduction) and took a photo with a dandelion.

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As a millennial, not knowing any economic facts about anything, I find this quote rather foreboding. (though I looked it up and he did leave several years before the end)

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Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is facing a critical time in funding and needs help from the #opensource and #tech community to ensure its future. To learn more including how you can donate, read this blog from Director Lance Albertson buff.ly/YPm0pKp

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Last month I worked on Apache Iceberg integration for Vortex, the results of which we presented earlier this month at Iceberg Summit. I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...

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After six month break I'm finally back to my detailed blog posts about columnar file readers: blog.lancedb.com/columnar-fil...

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Every year the people in my town dress up like animals and walk giant animal artworks down the main street. It's a pretty cool town.

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I think we are dangerously close to having the ability to create C-3PO.

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If anyone is interested in a deep read into random access performance + Parquet then we've put out a preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15247 Parquet is not really as bad as it's reputation implies (though of course I am biased towards Lance 😛, and there are valid limitations in Parquet re: RAM)

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When that console dump breaks just right

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My son has discovered he can email me from school. I guess it makes sense but it's quite odd.

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Paper rejected 😢

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Hügelkultur is a pretty fun word but my heart is set on "ent barrow"

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Can I do GRPC in the browser (JS) without a proxy? It appears the answer is no (something something trailers something security). Does HTTP3 solve this problem? My limited understanding is "still no".

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