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Software developer working on all things arrow and columnar storage, currently, Lance.
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Is it IOPS or IOPs?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Building rust mega-libs is difficult. A non-breaking change in a distant downstream lib breaks a downstream dependency because it added a method to an extension trait and introduced ambiguity 🫠 Now all our users need to tweak lock files or they can't build our package 🥲

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A bit of self promotion today. I wrong a blog post about table formats, why we haven't been able to use the standard table formats at LanceDB (they trigger too many data copies), and how we solved the issues (and how we think others should too): blog.lancedb.com/designing-a-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

sudo apt-get install subversion The software world is weird. How did something I do so often become so foreign and icky-feeling in what feels like a relatively short span of time (ok...now that I think about it maybe not that short...stupid time)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Hello world! We start our Blue Sky account with a new Apache Arrow patch release announcement, see more details about some fixes on our 19.0.1 release: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cat people! This is your moment! Does anyone have photos of their cat looking extra chunky (actually overweight doesn't matter if they pull off the look)? I need several photos of overweight cats by Monday for a blog post.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

10 year old me wanted to make video games. That's because 10 year old me was stupid and didn't know the real joy was in waking up absurdly early to program data structures that answer questions like "what is the logical inverse of 'at least 5, 7, and 9'?"

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Writing blogs again and it's a breath of fresh air. I can treat the reader as a friend that wants to learn. With the research paper it felt like the reader was an adversary waiting to jump up and yell "gotcha!" the moment I let my guard down.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

First draft of paper complete after three crazy months. I will spend the next three in terror that I transposed a significant decimal point somewhere.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

What percentage of AWS' revenue is "developers not remembering to shut down unused instances?"

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Reading my kids The Hobbit hits the sweet spot of "accessible enough my kids don't reject it" (I kind of assumed they would) and "rambling enough they fall asleep quickly"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I find myself constantly vacillating between "it's just logic, anyone can do this" and "what madness is this, no one will ever understand what I just did"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

In a "making a checklist but making sure half the things I write down are already done" sort of mood... whatever that is

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments