Andy Hill

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Some big news: @ducklabs.com is joining AWS, with the move expected to complete by early September. Our team will stay together in Amsterdam, with more resources to take DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack further - while the open-source Duck Stack remains free under MIT license ducklabs.com/news/2026/08...

The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech.

The problem with hiring “AI natives” is that if you aren’t careful then all you’ve done is hire people who were very good at asking ChatGPT to do their homework.

Do you know how long people have been playing professional baseball and how hard it is to be the first player to ever do anything let alone something this spectacular

jesus saves? well satan uses CRDT to enable live multi-user collaboration and seamless edit-level persistence.

i was recently reminded of the most savage restaurant review: “i went and got a COVID test after eating here because the food had absolutely no flavor”

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Ken Jennings is a real one. www.instagram.com/p/DYi5ddcCii...

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more people should read the loop looploop.blog

Bus Lane... or SCANDAL? 😱

openai.com/index/scalin... oooh, I’ve seen this movie! Everyone loves PostgreSQL until you have to scale it.

Plan your trip now!

how the hell did anyone in the 90s actually read Gene Wolfe‘s New Sun series before e-readers with builtin dictionary lookups? did they actually use a dictionary at least once per page?

@seattledot.bsky.social Alaskan Way is currently one of the most negligent safety hazards I’ve ever seen.

Very useful post from Bryan breaking down the challenges of growing engineers in the land of AI

You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

fun daily game cluesbysam.com

Bob is spot on about the need to shift from mode specific advocacy (such as cycling) to safe streets advocacy. Safer streets benefit everyone, including people who bike.

> British Chaos refers to a cluster of TikTok personalities that “once might have just been a local character in a pub in Stevenage but have become international celebrities 👏

I'm having some fun with maps.

I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments. Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.

why aren’t there more bars in grocery stores? the one at u-village QFC is outstanding

ORCA wrapped dropped tonight, go check your stats

This trombone slide chart with multiple ways to play the same note from the 70s closely resembles a git branch graph.

It feels like the internet‘s cooked us into presenting every position in the strongest moral terms and responding to every disagreement as an all-out attack that must be annihilated before it destroys everything and it seems not great

why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files

academy award contending tiktok

This book, but with @swerveconfident.bsky.social on every page

finished diablo 3 last night. hard to believe it was my first diablo game / isometric dungeon crawler

🎵 last night was the first night in eons i played a bass trombone part. The lowest notes were occasional F1/G1s while regularly cranking out E5-D5s gave me a new appreciation for lung capacity

"You're absolutely right!"

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

mspaint traffic notices from WSDOT

AI and Software Engineering, August 2025 edition: dev.ahill.net/2025/08/08/a...

I wish I knew. It’s also painful for client side metrics on empheral workers.

rode this recently, such an amazing improvement. yay!

@stevekamb.com is there a place to buy a digital copy of Level Up Your Life? Ideally for a Kobo device. I saw your note about an updated version coming in 2026, but I’m having trouble waiting that long.