Bryce
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Bryce
@brycemecum.com
Working on open source, mostly Apache Arrow (https://arrow.apache.org)
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Map showing the coldest season of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

"I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days"

"Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

Why are people like this?
Devine Lu Linvega (@[email protected])
I dropped off discord after taking psychic damage from someone flooding the channel with questions and feeding the answers to chatgpt, so they could triangulate to something like a uxntal compiler. I...
merveilles.town
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Made some accidental art with Claude today and I kinda like it
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here: blog.kagi.com/orion

Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026.

Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.

Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.

Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.

Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
gem.coop
gem.coop
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
People talk about print debugging but they never say what they print. Does everyone say "HI MOM" like I do?
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots.

When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.

bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
posit.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing "cold beer"
YouTube video by There I Ruined It
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November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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ADBC drivers in #Java? Yes. The latest release of ADBC adds a JNI layer that lets Java apps load drivers, run queries, and fetch results fast in @arrow.apache.org format. Read the new blog post from @ian.columnar.tech and David Li for examples and perf comparisons vs. JDBC. Link in comments👇
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hanami 2.3 is out! This is a fantastic release, with improvements all across the stack, but the thing I’m most proud of is the whopping THIRTY TWO Rubyists who’ve chosen to contribute and make Hanami better. Thank you everyone! 🥰
🌸 Hanami 2.3 is here, and it’s racked and ready!

This is our biggest release yet. Rack 3, resource routes, and so much more.

hanamirb.org/blog/2025/11...
Hanami 2.3: Racked and Ready
Our biggest release yet. Rack 3, resource routes, and so much more.
hanamirb.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Here is a nice examination of the benefits of building new systems using the extensibility of @apachedatafusion.bsky.social vs other systems. www.bauplanlabs.com/post/duck-hu...
Duck Hunt: moving Bauplan from DuckDB to DataFusion
Bauplan's journey from DuckDB to Apache DataFusion: how switching SQL engines doubled query performance on Iceberg lakehouses while enabling greater hackability
www.bauplanlabs.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
addr.tools is so good, more people should know about it
addr.tools
addr.tools
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago
aphyr.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This @posit.co::conf(2025) talk is everything: "The geospatial suite for Arrow is relatively new...so this is a PSA that it exists and it's really powerful and impressive. I actually also found it very easy to use...and I didn't really have much trouble learning it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyg...
Make Big Geospatial Data Accessible with Arrow (Cari Gostic, Sonoma Technology) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"if you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together"
New Apache Parquet Community page is up: parquet.apache.org/community/
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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We’re excited to announce the release of {arrow} 22.0.0 🏹📦 Here’s a roundup of the new features and changes, in a 🧵 Full details can be found at arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/ #rstats
Changelog
arrow.apache.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Nobody thinks about all of the visual representations of survivorship bias that didn't become popular.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A new startup, @columnar.tech, looks to streamline the copying of tabular data across systems, using @arrow.apache.org and the ADBC API.

By @joabj.bsky.social
Apache Arrow's Final Frontier: Replacing Outdated Database Drivers
A new startup, Columnar, looks to streamline the copying of tabular data across systems, using Apache Arrow and the ADBC API.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM