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Planetscale recently announced their new $5 Postgres instance (PS-5) and I wanted to give it a test.

Today I noticed via a tweet by @mitsuhiko that Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed trace information like what you’d get from JaegerUI.

In Reflecting on Apache Arrow in 2022, Will Jones does a really nice job providing a history of the Apache Arrow project and the broader ecosystem it was originally created to help foster.

I recently wanted to write a QuickLook plugin for Apache Parquet because I’m starting to use it more and more.

I recently came across Flatgeobuf and it looks like a really neat project.

I recently needed to test an R package at work destined for CRAN that wraps an API and ran into a situation where: I wanted only unit tests to run when CRAN checks the package.

From Second-guessing the modern web by Tom MacWright: But the cultural tides are strong.

From Complexity Has to Live Somewhere: Complexity has to live somewhere.

I recently needed to convert a shapefile to a raster for use in another package and wanted to share my steps here.

NetCDF is an open file format commonly used to store oceanographic (and other) data such as sea surface temperature (SST), sea level pressure (SLP), and much more.