Pi agent extension to tell the user to go to bed after midnight 😄👍

github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...

On the other hand, I can certainly understand the bitter undertone, given the impact AI is likely to have on Jepsen's consulting business.

I like to read a good AI critique, but find it hard to take those seriously where the author lacks any practical experience ("I continue to write all of my software by hand") and only rehashes tired arguments: hallucinations, sociopaths, "they write bugs", etc.

aphyr.com/posts/418-th...

"yfinance is mostly an HTTP client that impersonates a browser enough to get past Yahoo's protections: it uses curl_cffi with impersonate="chrome", fetches Yahoo cookies, gets a crumb, handles consent pages, and then calls Yahoo's undocumented JSON endpoints directly"

Crazy what github.com/ranaroussi/y... does to scrape market data from Yahoo 😳

We are hosting the next edition of our community conference, DuckCon, in Amsterdam on June 24. The registration is already open and you can submit your talk proposals until next Wednesday.

Looking forward to your submissions and seeing the flock in the summer!

wie un-real

I fixed mathias.blog/tools/whatzi..., and now the new Zig version shows up in all its glory. ⚡️

corsproxy.io has started to block free usage from production origins. As a workaround, I switched to codetabs.com (cool 90s-style website, btw).

duckdb.org :)

Simple & fast analytics from your local machine with built-in support for many data formats/protocols

e.g.
SELECT * FROM 's3://your-bucket/filename.extension';
just works

Mostly DuckDB extensions. FFI is really fun in Zig.

Look who made it into the list of contributors again 👀

Release v1.10502.0 · duckdb/duckdb-rs Highlights Lifetime-safe vectors: FlatVector, ListVector, ArrayVector, and StructVector now carry a lifetime parameter tied to DataChunkHandle, preventing use-after-free bugs. Breaking: these type...

Published new versions of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go for yesterday's v1.5.2 release

github.com/duckdb/duckd...

github.com/duckdb/duckd...

Wrangler is one of the worst CLIs out there. The codebase is an inconsistent mess. Multiple rewrites didn't help. But maybe this time it's different. 🙃

How can GPT-5.4 (xhigh) be such a good model and yet produce the most useless commit messages imaginable? It's almost as if it only remembers the last thing it did and ignores the diff itself.

I turned this into a skill. Now I can simply ask

❯ /bear-notes what did i do this month for client X?

❯ /bear-notes what is Y?

or just

❯ create a note about Z

😍

😅

Great to have Spark back. ⚡️

Also looking forward to GPT-5.4 Pro in ChatGPT.

Fun fact: ChatGPT Pro is €86.55 without VAT. Plus is €19.33.

🤔

TIL: Bear.app uses SQLite under the hood - perfect for some exploration with DuckDB

❯ duckdb ~/Library/Group\ Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application\ Data/database.sqlite -c '.tables'

If you loved Founders/Coders at Work, this book is for you.

When it comes to tech, nothing humbles me more than reading stories about multi-year video game projects.

The first episode was very compelling. Looking forward to the actual interviews!

The 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications is out. This means: a) I'm going to buy it, and b) I can enjoy new reviews like this one.

Cover page of The Learning Company Software Catalog from Fall of 1991 with a group of children who are waaaay too excited to be playing "Super Solvers: OutNumbered!"

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

Something I've been working on: duckdb-rs will soon allow you to statically link basically any extension by leveraging DuckDB's existing CMake build infra.

github.com/duckdb/duckd...

👀

Hard truth

Spot-on take on AI tooling. I'm guilty of this myself.

blog.jakesaunders.dev/is-anybody-e...

Direkt und ehrlich ist immer gut

Strong Silo vibes