Fikk norsk statsborgerskap i dag. Bra det. 🇳🇴 ❤️

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️

This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes.

Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6....

News: github.com/apache/cassa...

Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...

Don't let AI make you lazy

New blog post, on the changing role of principal/staff+ IC leaders: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03...

Core message: get building, get learning.

where norwegians hide

ChatGPT to Claude migration complete 💪🏽
#QuitGPT

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways for consumers to resist, accompanied by this satirical video.

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

Welcome | Apache Otava

otava.apache.org

Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF

love it ! and the settings around performance/resource usage are first class 💪

Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org

If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!

Giving @vivaldi.com a go, switching from Firefox.

I like it! Being norwegian is a bonus!
The inbuilt proton vpn was a very pleasant surprise, having a proton account already.

How everyone and anyone can use AI for good - Stack Overflow

indeed.

"when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her."

stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...

Bad Bunny's superbowl performance was pure brilliance. Last time I saw anything that good was Childish Gambino's This is America. But it was the opposite of dark and cynical, and live!

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes “Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.

I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

Brokkr - Wikipedia

and taking a fresh approach
brokk.ai/documentatio...

Brokkr - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokkr

Aftersun (2022) is another movie rated 7+ in Scandinavia and R in USA.

One of the best movies I've watched. watched with the family.

So many things in america are now the opposite of common sense. Pilgrims might have gone there for religious freedoms, but the tables have certainly turned now.

Cassandra 5.0 performance improvements.

Sharing my 2025 Apache Cassandra Year in Review and Gratitudes –
lists.apache.org/thread/ztzzr...

This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix.

Incredible.

Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link.

I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.

"The Holdovers" is the perfect (quality) family xmas movie.

it's also hilarious americans have rated it R while Sweden rates it 7 and Italy 6. (ps you can trust sweden and italy)

The Bear episode "Fishes" (s02e06) is our new pre-xmas tradition.
bring on some family time 😁

ja, det var skisporets smøretips "wizard"

hva skjedde med griptip.skisporet.no ?

😂 all i can say is yes…

www.instagram.com/reel/DQpNltc...

when would you write the two columns separately (as opposed to always in same insert/update statement) ?

you have any numbers about extra storage space the hash column uses ? reduce the hash length ?

i don't know your specifics but both are trivial for most folk

to skip setup: astra.datastax.com

for just equality matches yeah, hash it into a separate column and index that. i don't know of any plans to directly index blobs. Given the workaround is simple, i hope it's not otherwise lacking in any way ?

Learned about Wanaku #MCP Router project, a brand new OSS by IBM/RedHat presented by lead developer @orpiske.net at #DevoxxMA
Uses Apache Camel for routing 👀
github.com/wanaku-ai/wana…

Friendly reminder
NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL

NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax

It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes

New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does

We call it denormalisation
It's catering to technical limitation (but what choice do you have?)

I hope future data platforms automatically do this for you, based on consumer usage+patterns. Ultimately it's the responsibility & best encapsulated in the storage engine (network locality issues aside)

The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me:

Speed isn’t health. Community is.