If you’re curious where the future is going, check out my review of DuckDB 2.0 and Polars 2.0/2.1 … DuckDB is moving towards a more Client/Server architecture … Polars is just fixing core issues and moving towards a default streaming and spill-to-disk.

I was recently sucked into doing something like a caveman … writing Rust by hand with the wonderful Zed IDE to solve a Python problem. Ahh … what a wonderful world we live in. It felt strangely good to do such things; it brought me back to the days pre-LLM when I would fight tooth […]

I recently spent some time with my old love, that is, Rust; fawning over the old days when I learned to fight the borrow checker without my own two worn-out hands, no LLMs to do the work for me. I still think it’s probably one of the most fun languages to learn, for many reasons. […]