Taras Glek
@taras.glek.net
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🚨hey folks, the cloudflare outage has partially affected tangled as well!
repos hosted on knot1 are unavailable, as are avatars and camo’d images. self-hosted knots should still work as long as they aren’t proxied via cloudflare.
repos hosted on knot1 are unavailable, as are avatars and camo’d images. self-hosted knots should still work as long as they aren’t proxied via cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Reposted by Taras Glek
I’m thrilled to share that my new book (Spatial Data Management with DuckDB) is now published! 🎉
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I’m thrilled to share that my new book (Spatial Data Management with DuckDB) is now published! 🎉
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
Nice that one can use network-bypass techniques without crazy vendor frameworks or kernel mods. Even cooler that one can recreate iptables functionality like this for faster inter-host networking
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Nice that one can use network-bypass techniques without crazy vendor frameworks or kernel mods. Even cooler that one can recreate iptables functionality like this for faster inter-host networking
Its an honor to be alive alongside George Holtz. Dude is smart AND has a unique perspective. youtu.be/werrvv0MVXQ?...
I once bought a new prius for comma support. Now on used tesla 3 cos it supports comma
I once bought a new prius for comma support. Now on used tesla 3 cos it supports comma
comma ai | COMMA CON 2025 | George Hotz | Outwit, Outplay, Outlast | President
YouTube video by george hotz archive
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Its an honor to be alive alongside George Holtz. Dude is smart AND has a unique perspective. youtu.be/werrvv0MVXQ?...
I once bought a new prius for comma support. Now on used tesla 3 cos it supports comma
I once bought a new prius for comma support. Now on used tesla 3 cos it supports comma
Reposted by Taras Glek
I like this narrative by Baidu founder Robin Li
Currently, we have an unhealthy ‘upright pyramid’ AI industry structure
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
They are shifting to a healthy AI industry structure, which is an ‘inverted pyramid'
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
Currently, we have an unhealthy ‘upright pyramid’ AI industry structure
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
They are shifting to a healthy AI industry structure, which is an ‘inverted pyramid'
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I like this narrative by Baidu founder Robin Li
Currently, we have an unhealthy ‘upright pyramid’ AI industry structure
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
They are shifting to a healthy AI industry structure, which is an ‘inverted pyramid'
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
Currently, we have an unhealthy ‘upright pyramid’ AI industry structure
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
They are shifting to a healthy AI industry structure, which is an ‘inverted pyramid'
- Application Layer
- Model Layer
- Chip Layer
Finally one can spend $229 to put their iphone into a sock! www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
www.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Finally one can spend $229 to put their iphone into a sock! www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/doc... this is probably the most exciting linux OS since proxmox. A proper tamper-proof OS with api driven management. Seems much nicer than CoreOS or other hipster crap
IncusOS
IncusOS is an immutable OS solely designed around safely and reliably running Incus. It uses modern security features like UEFI Secure Boot and TPM to provide a safe boot experience and seamless fu...
linuxcontainers.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/doc... this is probably the most exciting linux OS since proxmox. A proper tamper-proof OS with api driven management. Seems much nicer than CoreOS or other hipster crap
Reposted by Taras Glek
I continue to bet on OpenRouter.ai
Today I'm writing my LLM programming course notes on using embeddings and they add embedding models: openrouter.ai/models?fmt=c...
Then I get an email that they're doing their own TS/Python SDK: github.com/OpenRouterTe...
Every week they ship great stuff
Today I'm writing my LLM programming course notes on using embeddings and they add embedding models: openrouter.ai/models?fmt=c...
Then I get an email that they're doing their own TS/Python SDK: github.com/OpenRouterTe...
Every week they ship great stuff
OpenRouter
A router for LLMs and other AI models
OpenRouter.ai
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I continue to bet on OpenRouter.ai
Today I'm writing my LLM programming course notes on using embeddings and they add embedding models: openrouter.ai/models?fmt=c...
Then I get an email that they're doing their own TS/Python SDK: github.com/OpenRouterTe...
Every week they ship great stuff
Today I'm writing my LLM programming course notes on using embeddings and they add embedding models: openrouter.ai/models?fmt=c...
Then I get an email that they're doing their own TS/Python SDK: github.com/OpenRouterTe...
Every week they ship great stuff
I think @hannes.muehleisen.org needs to start doing conferences there
3 options:
- Keep the amazing name Duck Lake
- Get rid of that pesky space and go full DuckLake
- Towny McTownFace
- Keep the amazing name Duck Lake
- Get rid of that pesky space and go full DuckLake
- Towny McTownFace
A small Saskatchewan #town is looking for a new moniker and hoping to get some much-needed funds in the process. The town of #DuckLake, about 80 km northeast of Saskatoon, is accepting expressions of interest for its #NamingRights, with minimum bid set at $10 million.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I think @hannes.muehleisen.org needs to start doing conferences there
Reposted by Taras Glek
Kostiantynivka. A 24th Brigade communications officer shot down a Russian FPV drone while escorting a journalist from Het Nederlands Dagblad, who was documenting damage to the Holy Assumption Church caused by enemy shelling.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQW905I...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQW905I...
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Kostiantynivka. A 24th Brigade communications officer shot down a Russian FPV drone while escorting a journalist from Het Nederlands Dagblad, who was documenting damage to the Holy Assumption Church caused by enemy shelling.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQW905I...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQW905I...
i do love the fact that wezterm is equally fast on every os and brings with it screen and ssh type functionality
How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm https://lobste.rs/s/rdh2iz ##lua
How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
rashil2000.me
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i do love the fact that wezterm is equally fast on every os and brings with it screen and ssh type functionality
Reposted by Taras Glek
We derestricted crbug.com/382005099 today which might just be my favorite bug of the last few years: bad interaction between WebAudio changing the CPU's handling of floats and V8 not expecting that. See crbug.com/382005099#co... for a PoC exploit. Also affected other browsers
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We derestricted crbug.com/382005099 today which might just be my favorite bug of the last few years: bad interaction between WebAudio changing the CPU's handling of floats and V8 not expecting that. See crbug.com/382005099#co... for a PoC exploit. Also affected other browsers
Email might be the last remaining open messaging protocol. It's a total nightmare of a spec. But turns out fastmail/JMAP are still fighting the good fight. When using JMAP as an abstraction and managed email tx/rx, overall solution can look pretty reasonable
alessandrostefanini.it/2024/10/13/s...
alessandrostefanini.it/2024/10/13/s...
Serverless email stack · Alessandro Stefanini
Serverless email stack - Alessandro Stefanini
alessandrostefanini.it
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Email might be the last remaining open messaging protocol. It's a total nightmare of a spec. But turns out fastmail/JMAP are still fighting the good fight. When using JMAP as an abstraction and managed email tx/rx, overall solution can look pretty reasonable
alessandrostefanini.it/2024/10/13/s...
alessandrostefanini.it/2024/10/13/s...
Reposted by Taras Glek
Good reminder of urban aspect of war in Ukraine. "If they make it inside the dense, built-up area of a city like Pokrovsk, with high-rise buildings and endless opportunities for cover and concealment, clearing them out becomes an almost impossible task." kyivindependent.com/analysis-pok...
Analysis: Pokrovsk on the brink as Russian troops, drones infiltrate deeper into Ukraine’s fortress city
At first, the pictures went viral for another reason.
Two Ukrainian civilians were shot dead and another injured on the roadside, the victims of another Russian war crime that was as everyday as it w...
kyivindependent.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Good reminder of urban aspect of war in Ukraine. "If they make it inside the dense, built-up area of a city like Pokrovsk, with high-rise buildings and endless opportunities for cover and concealment, clearing them out becomes an almost impossible task." kyivindependent.com/analysis-pok...
Reposted by Taras Glek
Neat way to isolate DuckDB state during extension development:
SET home_directory='.'
DuckDB will automatically create ".duckdb", INSTALL will download to .duckdb/extensions/, etc.
SET home_directory='.'
DuckDB will automatically create ".duckdb", INSTALL will download to .duckdb/extensions/, etc.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Neat way to isolate DuckDB state during extension development:
SET home_directory='.'
DuckDB will automatically create ".duckdb", INSTALL will download to .duckdb/extensions/, etc.
SET home_directory='.'
DuckDB will automatically create ".duckdb", INSTALL will download to .duckdb/extensions/, etc.
Reposted by Taras Glek
📣 New blog post by @dtenwolde.bsky.social.
🕸️ In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for fraudulent patterns with the SQL/PGQ graph syntax that's part of SQL:2023.
📖 Visit duckdb.org/2025/10/22/d... to read the post.
🕸️ In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for fraudulent patterns with the SQL/PGQ graph syntax that's part of SQL:2023.
📖 Visit duckdb.org/2025/10/22/d... to read the post.
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
📣 New blog post by @dtenwolde.bsky.social.
🕸️ In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for fraudulent patterns with the SQL/PGQ graph syntax that's part of SQL:2023.
📖 Visit duckdb.org/2025/10/22/d... to read the post.
🕸️ In this post, we show how to use DuckDB and the DuckPGQ community extension to analyze financial data for fraudulent patterns with the SQL/PGQ graph syntax that's part of SQL:2023.
📖 Visit duckdb.org/2025/10/22/d... to read the post.
when i went to university 20 years ago it was obviously dumb to go into engineering. When I worked at pure storage more recently, banks wanted us to to not make hw and only do sw.
Now same business types that punished people for wanting to make stuff are asking "why america not making stuff?"
Now same business types that punished people for wanting to make stuff are asking "why america not making stuff?"
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
when i went to university 20 years ago it was obviously dumb to go into engineering. When I worked at pure storage more recently, banks wanted us to to not make hw and only do sw.
Now same business types that punished people for wanting to make stuff are asking "why america not making stuff?"
Now same business types that punished people for wanting to make stuff are asking "why america not making stuff?"
Reposted by Taras Glek
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
imagine typescript without npm!
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
imagine typescript without npm!
Really funny watching VCs ask why America doesn't build stuff anymore, after they did everything possible to discourage touching hardware during my professional lifetime youtu.be/ShkxpBoObCQ?...
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
YouTube video by a16z
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Really funny watching VCs ask why America doesn't build stuff anymore, after they did everything possible to discourage touching hardware during my professional lifetime youtu.be/ShkxpBoObCQ?...
working with esphome always feels like magic.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
working with esphome always feels like magic.
Rust is so weird. How can one not have an async runtime :)
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Rust is so weird. How can one not have an async runtime :)
so punny!
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing - a bit like people, really
When lithium-ion batteries degrade, they emit acoustic signals that reveal what's going wrong inside. Now, MIT researchers say they've figured out how to interpret those sounds, and the subtle creaks and pops that come before major failures, to help predict problems before things go up in smoke.…
dlvr.it
September 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
so punny!
sad that vs code release notes are still a bunch of hot air. Used to enjoy these so much
🚀 v1.104 of VS Code is here! Check out what's new:
🤖 Improved coding agent integration
📄 AGENTS.md file support for better context
🔍 New Auto mode (Preview) for smart model selection
🔑 Model flexibility via BYOK extension API
…and more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease
Here are the highlights 🧵
🤖 Improved coding agent integration
📄 AGENTS.md file support for better context
🔍 New Auto mode (Preview) for smart model selection
🔑 Model flexibility via BYOK extension API
…and more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease
Here are the highlights 🧵
September 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
sad that vs code release notes are still a bunch of hot air. Used to enjoy these so much
Reposted by Taras Glek
TIL that you can compress .zip files with Zstandard (pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/case... compression method 93), and that libzip and 7-Zip support that.
libzip.org/news/release...
github.com/ip7z/7zip/re...
libzip.org/news/release...
github.com/ip7z/7zip/re...
September 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
TIL that you can compress .zip files with Zstandard (pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/case... compression method 93), and that libzip and 7-Zip support that.
libzip.org/news/release...
github.com/ip7z/7zip/re...
libzip.org/news/release...
github.com/ip7z/7zip/re...