The problem: httpfs ignores your environment variables If you work with DuckDB and the httpfs extension to read remote Parquet files, CSVs from S3, or any HTTP resource, you probably assume that the HTTP_PROXY and …
Every query starts with a plan. Every slow query probably starts with a bad one. And more often than not, the statistics are to blame. But how does it really work? PostgreSQL doesn’t run the query to find out — it …
I recently came across an exceptionally dense technical analysis about container security that’s worth sharing. The author started with a simple hypothesis: container filesystem isolation should be sufficient for …
Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, recently published a thread that perfectly describes the moment we’re living in software development. According to him, we’re witnessing a genuine …
A few days ago I was reading a fascinating essay by David Bessis that made me think deeply about something we all take for granted: intelligence. Bessis, a mathematician and author of Mathematica: A Secret World of …
A few days ago I discovered Agent Lightning, a Microsoft project that I believe marks a before and after in how we think about AI agent orchestration. It’s not just another library; it’s a serious attempt to …
A few days ago I watched a video that has given me a lot to think about. Jeffrey Way, founder of Laracasts and one of the most influential people in the Laravel/PHP community, shared a brutally honest reflection on how …
A few days ago I discovered Tangible Media Collection, a website that has resonated deeply with me. It’s a collection of some 1700 objects related to information storage: from vinyl records and magnetic tapes to …
Vercel has announced the general availability of Vercel Sandbox, an execution layer designed specifically for AI agents. But beyond the AI agent hype, there’s an interesting question: can it be useful for running …
If you’re using tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Workspace, or similar, you’ve probably noticed there’s technical jargon that goes beyond simply “chatting with AI”. I’m talking …
Lately I’ve been working quite a bit with DuckDB, and one of the things that interests me most is understanding how to optimize performance according to the file format we’re using. It’s not the same …
Lately I’m seeing more and more AI models calling themselves “open source”. Llama, Mistral, Falcon… they all claim to be “open”. But are they really? How open are they actually? I …
