Lucia Cerchie
@luciacerchie.bsky.social
I ❤️ data and developers. Building stuff @Confluent
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Lucia Cerchie
@luciacerchie.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hey it's me, Lucia!
I'm a big fan of developers, DX, and data. Couple other places to follow me: github.com/Cerchie, and www.linkedin.com/in/luciacerc...
I'm a big fan of developers, DX, and data. Couple other places to follow me: github.com/Cerchie, and www.linkedin.com/in/luciacerc...
Fuzzy-matching against aliases in your command palette... that's cool! blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build...
How to build a remarkable command palette
Command palettes are incredible tools: they're fast, versatile, and will transform users into power users! Tim Boucher explains how to build a truly remarkable command palette for your product...
blog.superhuman.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fuzzy-matching against aliases in your command palette... that's cool! blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build...
nighttime browsing: interop proposal guide github.com/web-platform...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
nighttime browsing: interop proposal guide github.com/web-platform...
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Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud.
We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...
We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...
Monitor Kafka Streams Health in Confluent Cloud
Quickly troubleshoot Kafka Streams apps with new health metrics in Confluent Cloud. Spot bottlenecks, monitor RocksDB, and reduce MTTR—no extra code.
www.confluent.io
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud.
We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...
We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...
"A lot of people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it."
It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable!
Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...
It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable!
Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...
Tiny Wins
The big benefits of little changes.
joelcalifa.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"A lot of people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it."
It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable!
Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...
It's hard to find many major cracks in what you might think is smooth DX for just this reason. This is why honest friction logs over high traffic user flows are so valuable!
Quote: this post joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wi...
oh no I just found riso zine Etsy :D
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
oh no I just found riso zine Etsy :D
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
It's 2025, why aren't the AI innovations folding my laundry
February 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's 2025, why aren't the AI innovations folding my laundry
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
jira? isn't that the guy who dreams of sushi?
February 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
jira? isn't that the guy who dreams of sushi?
My internal math hobbyist and philosopher balks every time I see unbounded Flink tables referred to as “infinite”, but I’ll let y’all have it as a loanword
February 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My internal math hobbyist and philosopher balks every time I see unbounded Flink tables referred to as “infinite”, but I’ll let y’all have it as a loanword
This is a screenshot from the ATProto docs. No leading $, no newline business that gets messed up when I copy this over to the terminal. Might seem trivial, but the seconds it takes to get to a locally running an app so devs can follow along the tutorial are critical. The fewer, the better.
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is a screenshot from the ATProto docs. No leading $, no newline business that gets messed up when I copy this over to the terminal. Might seem trivial, but the seconds it takes to get to a locally running an app so devs can follow along the tutorial are critical. The fewer, the better.
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
[on a call with a partner team at a tech company]
thank you for your microservice 🫡
thank you for your microservice 🫡
January 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
[on a call with a partner team at a tech company]
thank you for your microservice 🫡
thank you for your microservice 🫡
Thanks for the write up, Maggie! Spent the weekend moving house but if I get a spare moment to myself this week I plan to crack my knuckles and give DeepSeek a spin on my personal laptop… probably some side project with ATProto
Reluctantly spent part of the weekend trying to interpret the DeepSeek R1 manic panic happening on the hell site.
Took a minute, but wrote myself notes to clarify the basics: maggieappleton.com/2025-01-deep...
TLDR; a cheaper, higher-quality, open-source reasoning model for everyone. Net good.
Took a minute, but wrote myself notes to clarify the basics: maggieappleton.com/2025-01-deep...
TLDR; a cheaper, higher-quality, open-source reasoning model for everyone. Net good.
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
maggieappleton.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thanks for the write up, Maggie! Spent the weekend moving house but if I get a spare moment to myself this week I plan to crack my knuckles and give DeepSeek a spin on my personal laptop… probably some side project with ATProto
The lively and happy dev community around ATProto is a great value signal.
January 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The lively and happy dev community around ATProto is a great value signal.
Thinking of teaching kids to make static websites this year at a local STEM center… what are your favorite resources for teaching internet safety and awareness?
January 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thinking of teaching kids to make static websites this year at a local STEM center… what are your favorite resources for teaching internet safety and awareness?
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!)
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
January 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
been reading a lot of comments today about how people find man pages hard to read and it made me mad (why do they have to be so hard!)
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
so I'm giving away 300 copies of Bite Size Command Line to folks for whom $12 is a lot of money! (with code BUYONEGIVEONE)
wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...
Bsky looks like X but could just as easily been an old school forum. It’s all in the ATProtocol and positions bsky for an increasingly fractionated social media landscape. Read up: arxiv.org/html/2402.03... and bsky.social/about/blog/5...
arxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Bsky looks like X but could just as easily been an old school forum. It’s all in the ATProtocol and positions bsky for an increasingly fractionated social media landscape. Read up: arxiv.org/html/2402.03... and bsky.social/about/blog/5...
TIL you can ID your connected printers by running lpstat -p -d
January 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
TIL you can ID your connected printers by running lpstat -p -d
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17!
sessionize.com/current-lond...
sessionize.com/current-lond...
January 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's this time of the year again: the CfP for #CurrentLondon '25 (TCFKA Kafka Summit) is open 🥳. I'm having the pleasure to be on the program committee once more and am looking forward very much to your proposals. Get them in by Feb 17!
sessionize.com/current-lond...
sessionize.com/current-lond...
January 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Those “brag docs” are great references for when you want to make a case for yourself professionally to others (promotion season etc). But they are even more important for your own bad days. If you don’t have one, think about it for a New Year’s resolution
If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.
December 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Those “brag docs” are great references for when you want to make a case for yourself professionally to others (promotion season etc). But they are even more important for your own bad days. If you don’t have one, think about it for a New Year’s resolution
Reposted by Lucia Cerchie
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
4 out of my top 5 were Frozen songs. Not my fault 😅❄️
December 4, 2024 at 7:14 PM
4 out of my top 5 were Frozen songs. Not my fault 😅❄️
Data viz friends, are you aware of any stickers that are specifically meant for creating charts? Doing a manual repo viz exercise and I'm probably just going to order some planner stickers but I'm curious
December 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Data viz friends, are you aware of any stickers that are specifically meant for creating charts? Doing a manual repo viz exercise and I'm probably just going to order some planner stickers but I'm curious
Did you know that user follows in atproto work like hyperlinks? User A follows user B, that means that there's only a follow record in A's repo. Universal indexing takes care of B's list.
November 29, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Did you know that user follows in atproto work like hyperlinks? User A follows user B, that means that there's only a follow record in A's repo. Universal indexing takes care of B's list.
Pleased that arxiv is starting to experiment with offering whitepapers as html... was getting tired of squinting at pdfs
November 29, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Pleased that arxiv is starting to experiment with offering whitepapers as html... was getting tired of squinting at pdfs
What’s the name of the website design aesthetic that all these LLM companies use? You know the one, pastels, watercolor, hand-drawn icons, friendly serif fonts…
November 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
What’s the name of the website design aesthetic that all these LLM companies use? You know the one, pastels, watercolor, hand-drawn icons, friendly serif fonts…