
Common Sense Media published its Perplexity risk assessment today, and the verdict is the harshest on their scale: unacceptable risk. High or unacceptable across all eight principles they evaluate, and a failure on four …

Anthropic published its September threat intelligence report yesterday, covering what it detected and shut down between December 2025 and August 2026. Seven areas — cyber operations, influence, surveillance, fraud, …

Migue is Miguel Ángel López Pascual, a cook from Seville and a good friend. Since 2014 he has been publishing traditional Andalusian recipes at lachozademigue.com: sirloin in whisky sauce, spinach with chickpeas, …

On August 26th, Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen published a very short note on the DuckDB blog: DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, is becoming a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services. The deal closes in early …

In April 2021 I made my first commit to the monorepo behind CARTO’s cloud-native platform. It was PR number 9, a docker-compose. Five years later I’ve looked back with some calm and found around 450 commits, …

I’ve been writing about Go on this blog since 2015. Back in that “What I like about Go” article I talked about simplicity, fast compilation, and how good it feels to use a language that doesn’t …

pontecesures.net is a personal project I’ve been running for years: the news portal of Pontecesures, my home town, a Galician municipality of about 3,000 people. The idea has always been a simple one — keeping the …

If you’ve been using Claude Code with Auto Memory enabled for a while, you’ve probably noticed that after several sessions, Claude’s notes about your project start accumulating contradictions. Entries …

I have been using Claude Code daily for months, and there is one configuration that has completely changed how it works with my code. It is not a new plugin, a more powerful model, or a magic prompt. It is something that …

Every month, 2.2 million job postings in the United States result in zero hires. Four in ten companies admit their listings are fake. Seven in ten call it morally acceptable. 85 percent still bring candidates in for …

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 …