A promotional image for Blades in the Dark: The Revenants, an Actual Play on Find Out Productions. Shown to the left is a photo of Prince, a Black man with short purple hair, wearing glasses and a black shirt, smiling broadly at the camera. To the right is his character, Eloji, in a grayscale and purple color scheme, smiling jovially with one hand on his purple-tinted glasses and the other on his silver and black cane. Eloji short black 4C hair with a shaved “part” on the left side, neatly trimmed Victorian mutton chop sideburns and is wearing a black clerical shirt, a vest with purple floral designs, and jewelry including a silver skull pin. There is text listing the premiere date and channel URL: April 4th 11 AM Eastern 4 PM British twitch.tv/findoutproductions

Introducing the first Revenant:

@prince-infidel.bsky.social as Eloji, the Slide.

Man about town.
Son of a preacher man.
Formerly of the Church of the Ecstasy of the Flesh.
Also formerly a lark honoring the flesh in different ways.
Now? Out for vengeance.

#ttrpg #actualplay

A collection of nerds with beards and black t-shirts sits at a round table during the ASF Community Over Code game night

@zeroshade.columnar.tech The ASF had our selfie this whole time!

Fetch query results without ODBC / JDBC bottlenecks. The new ADBC driver for Databricks is now available in early release. Install it with dbc.

Released this week: Version 22 of the ADBC libraries and drivers.

This release includes updates to the ADBC libraries for 8 languages, and improvements to the 4 ADBC drivers that are maintained in the apache/arrow-adbc repository. See the blog for more details: arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/01...

This is me right now....

Was anyone else like me, wondering if you can use ADBC with $5 Postgres from @planetscale.com? Well, you can! (No surprise)

I wrote up my test at brycemecum.com/2025/11/15/a...

#apachearrow #adbc

We finally launched! Go learn more and then come join the community and talk to us about data connectivity!

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Rows: Columnar Data Connectivity with Apache Arrow ADBC (Ian Cook) YouTube video by CMU Database Group

ODBC is getting tired. It just can't keep up with the fast new kids in the data world these days. The next generation is ready to take the torch. Meet ADBC, a fast, modern data connectivity standard built on @arrow.apache.org. Watch my new talk from the @db.cs.cmu.edu seminar: youtu.be/TjlmNGNx77E

Hey @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social! What do you think? We like the announcement, but why does it seem that the new R2 SQL stuff, that depends on @arrow.apache.org internally, not also provide an API that returns Arrow directly? 😁

I agree, it's super cool. Tell them they need to actually *return* data in Arrow format instead of only JSON and then we can talk 😆

Really enjoyed @zeroshade.columnar.tech’s talk at #COC25 - TIL when one would use Arrow and Parquet together 💡

In September the @columnar.tech crew are headed to PyData Paris 2025 and the first ever Apache Arrow Summit. The organizer @quantstack.bsky.social is a dedicated supporter of @arrow.apache.org. We’re delighted to be sponsoring the event.

1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵