David Gasquez

You don't have a "Bluesky account". lou.gg/blog/you-don...

DuckDB 2.0 is out!

Made a cute spanish translation of one of my favorite articles of Scott Alexander, Meditations on Moloch. davidgasquez.com/experiments/... Did it entirely by voice on a walk with my dogs!

It happened. Couldn't resist anymore. 😅 github.com/davidgasquez... Been having fun growing my own NixOS from scratch.

I think I lost the "Python developer" identity package a while back. Still holding to the "data engineer" but scared to lose that one too.

Still thinking about this... so I wrote a very short post as a reminder for more folks! davidgasquez.com/give-coordin... Give your data some coordinates, build a little interface, and go explore. 🗺️

We released Pi 1.0! earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

don't be nice.

Some of these are really close to reality. 😅 youtu.be/FG8sUgjBGXs

Used @ap.brid.gy to request Nik to bridge his Mastodon posts into Bluesky! Smooth experience and happy to have the posts here. 😊 bsky.app/profile/ludi...

This pattern of asking a cheap LLM to generate hypothetical / fake classifications that we then later resolve to real ones is one of the dominant way I'm doing query understanding these days softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08...

This quote is even more relevant these days with all the "Company Brain" talk going around. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.

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...

Every now and then, I think about this awesome post and imagine how the author must feel with all the increased AI insanity going on right now on every corner of most companies. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Wrote about why context engineering is a data problem. Organizations need to own the process that turns raw sources into useful artifacts for their agents. Much of this is work data teams already know how to do! davidgasquez.com/context-engi...

Great post! There is a clear parallel to how the @atproto.science ecosystem can disrupt the extractive science publishing industry & bring on millions of researchers with a new cooperative research stack. The system is ripe for disruption - see also @edhagen.net's post in the thread linked below >

One of the best things I did recently was to archive all @gordon.bsky.social's Substack posts into my personal digital library. I index, embed and query it with github.com/tobi/qmd. When my agents now $consult-library they stumble with many great Gordonisms, making them better for my taste!

I still hope AT Proto will win in the social media race. It has such great ideas and architecture behind it, and it's just there, for everyone to query. Great talk with @danabra.mov, as always.

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

Write more ad-hoc ephemeral workbenches! They help you learn and a higher bandwith way to communicate with your agent. davidgasquez.com/ephemeral-ag...

Wonderful post by @summerscope.bsky.social! Hat tip to @mariozechner.at. The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired. pydantic.dev/articles/the...

Write more ad-hoc ephemeral workbenches! They help you learn and a higher bandwith way to communicate with your agent. davidgasquez.com/ephemeral-ag...

Complexity is the mind killer. github.com/PhilipK/arti...

Check out the Awesome DuckDB repo – curated by @davidgasquez.com – to explore the growing list of handy tools and cool projects built around #DuckDB, DuckLake and more. 😎 🦆 Notice a great tool that’s missing? Submit a PR to get it added. Start exploring: davidgasquez.github.io/awesome-duck...

The primitive is the product. Great read on the power of extensibility and thinking in terms of abstractions and capabilities. www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/t...

Came across this old XKCD. Not only works for sports commentaty these days! 😅 xkcd.com/904

Integration complete! My posts are now on atproto too thanks to @standard.site. davidgasquez.com

i want to spread the word about atproto. if you’re running a podcast, i’d be happy to hop in to talk about it. i understand it decently well and can explain it without much jargon. it’s one of the most interesting developments in the last 30 years of web, and i can defend that. please dm to set up!

Good example! UMAP rules. bsky.app/profile/gran...

🌡️ Cada vez que llega una ola de calor me desespera lo difícil que es saber los récords de temperatura. Así que he montado un mapa que rastrea los récords de temperatura de todas las estaciones de AEMET en España y muestra los días que han pasado desde el último récord

Proposed norm: you're allowed to respond to an unedited LLM document with an unedited LLM document that is twice as long

Lovely piece analyzing people's relationshipts over time. pudding.cool/2026/06/love... Great visuals and style!

Got 3.3M links (follows of everyone I follow on Bluesky) into a cute map. These are the bubbles of my feed. Data people, AI people, ATProto builders, OSS, ... sites.wisp.place/davidgasquez...

The future is now! - Dial keys, not IPs, thanks to Iroh - Fetch hashes, not URLs, thanks to DASL - Build on shared records, not siloed databases, thanks to the AT Protocol

Agents are everywhere now but is worth remembering that there are still so many cool things we can do with good ol matrix factorization and embeddings. No LLMs required.

How community notes reduce viral misinformation. Great talk/conversation about community notes internals and impact. www.ted.com/talks/keith_...

The future is now! - Dial keys, not IPs, thanks to Iroh - Fetch hashes, not URLs, thanks to DASL - Build on shared records, not siloed databases, thanks to the AT Protocol

Not sure how well am doing it (feedback appreciated) but from now on my posts are also published to the Atmosphere via @standard.site! 🌱 Tiny sync script in case you want to steal it. 👇 github.com/davidgasquez....

Video and transcript from my talk at QCon London are now online. Thanks @qconferences.com! www.infoq.com/presentation...

I keep using this qmd setup for research and it is really great! The workflow is simple: put a bunch of resources in a YAML file and qmd will pick them up and index/embed them. Answers are more grounded than just web search and I can control more what the models see!