Marie Rajan
@mariejacob.bsky.social
engineering, parenting, cooking, books, raleigh. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇳
majacob.github.io
majacob.github.io
More on family games: Netflix quietly released their interactive games lineup last month, using your phone as a game controller. They’ve included things like Pictionary and Boggle which is a tremendous hit if you’re looking for a fun family/group social activity.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
More on family games: Netflix quietly released their interactive games lineup last month, using your phone as a game controller. They’ve included things like Pictionary and Boggle which is a tremendous hit if you’re looking for a fun family/group social activity.
Husband recently bought this game, Klask, originally from Denmark, popular mostly in Europe - it is like a mini version of foosball with magnets. Six-year old has zero interest, but I have not been able to stop playing it.
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Husband recently bought this game, Klask, originally from Denmark, popular mostly in Europe - it is like a mini version of foosball with magnets. Six-year old has zero interest, but I have not been able to stop playing it.
“I’d rather not go down this rabbit hole today”
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“I’d rather not go down this rabbit hole today”
I know provenance & lineage have been researched to death in db academia. Has anything really taken off in industry practice?
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know provenance & lineage have been researched to death in db academia. Has anything really taken off in industry practice?
IAM policies will be the death of me
September 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
IAM policies will be the death of me
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his infinite wisdom, understood type safety.
August 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his infinite wisdom, understood type safety.
await/async patterns in JS are so cumbersome and unintuitive… just let me chain on promises.
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
await/async patterns in JS are so cumbersome and unintuitive… just let me chain on promises.
One week with grandparents and 6-year old is grandmaster at rummy.
August 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
One week with grandparents and 6-year old is grandmaster at rummy.
Using 5 Whys for postmortems - I wonder what the success rate of this is to find RC
August 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Using 5 Whys for postmortems - I wonder what the success rate of this is to find RC
This poor little mite washed up on our parking lot during the crazy downpour yesterday in Raleigh.
August 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This poor little mite washed up on our parking lot during the crazy downpour yesterday in Raleigh.
Tuning claude.MD is a painful process… we need to distinguish times when determinism and precision are required vs fuzzy ambiguous instruction.
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Tuning claude.MD is a painful process… we need to distinguish times when determinism and precision are required vs fuzzy ambiguous instruction.
I’ve been watching the german show Dark on Netflix, and it’s the most mind-boggling thing I’ve seen in quite a while…
July 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I’ve been watching the german show Dark on Netflix, and it’s the most mind-boggling thing I’ve seen in quite a while…
I love taking pics of interesting old trees. This giant, Moreton Bay Fig tree, in Balboa park, San Diego, is about 110 years old, planted for the 1915 exposition in celebration of the Panama Canal.
#Happy4th
#Happy4th
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I love taking pics of interesting old trees. This giant, Moreton Bay Fig tree, in Balboa park, San Diego, is about 110 years old, planted for the 1915 exposition in celebration of the Panama Canal.
#Happy4th
#Happy4th
Whoa, two year non-competes in trading. If non-competes were not banned in California, I doubt SV would be where it’s at for innovation.
Jane street is creative in how it competes for talent 👏
Jane street is creative in how it competes for talent 👏
June 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Whoa, two year non-competes in trading. If non-competes were not banned in California, I doubt SV would be where it’s at for innovation.
Jane street is creative in how it competes for talent 👏
Jane street is creative in how it competes for talent 👏
Nice article. But, even without monetary/vc pressures, I wonder about the not-yet-enshittified unicorns - things like curl, sqllite, linux - unless Linus and the rest somehow live forever, the baton will pass to someone…
If I'm honest, I'm still not sure whether "evasive evitability" is the same word twice and am afraid to look it up
apenwarr.ca/log/20250530
apenwarr.ca/log/20250530
The evasive evitability of enshittification
Our company recently announced a fundraise. We were grateful for all
the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its colle...
apenwarr.ca
June 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Nice article. But, even without monetary/vc pressures, I wonder about the not-yet-enshittified unicorns - things like curl, sqllite, linux - unless Linus and the rest somehow live forever, the baton will pass to someone…
It’s interesting to see what folks use for basic calculator:
- bc
- macOS spotlight
- iOS calculator
- google search
I myself keep switching between these.
- bc
- macOS spotlight
- iOS calculator
- google search
I myself keep switching between these.
June 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It’s interesting to see what folks use for basic calculator:
- bc
- macOS spotlight
- iOS calculator
- google search
I myself keep switching between these.
- bc
- macOS spotlight
- iOS calculator
- google search
I myself keep switching between these.
Reposted by Marie Rajan
Wish AI agents were better at reading maps? Now they can be! With access to the Mapbox MCP Server, any AI agent can generate maps, get directions, find points of interest, and more… 🤖🗺️💡
github.com/mapbox/mcp-s...
#BuiltWithMapbox #LLM #MCP #AIAssistants #ModelContextProtocol @anthropic.com
github.com/mapbox/mcp-s...
#BuiltWithMapbox #LLM #MCP #AIAssistants #ModelContextProtocol @anthropic.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Wish AI agents were better at reading maps? Now they can be! With access to the Mapbox MCP Server, any AI agent can generate maps, get directions, find points of interest, and more… 🤖🗺️💡
github.com/mapbox/mcp-s...
#BuiltWithMapbox #LLM #MCP #AIAssistants #ModelContextProtocol @anthropic.com
github.com/mapbox/mcp-s...
#BuiltWithMapbox #LLM #MCP #AIAssistants #ModelContextProtocol @anthropic.com
The little things count.
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The little things count.
Brush off all the liquid glass hype, the most glossed over thing is local llm access for app owners. Well done, .
June 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Brush off all the liquid glass hype, the most glossed over thing is local llm access for app owners. Well done, .
It’s too funny on the other site !!
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s too funny on the other site !!
Reposted by Marie Rajan
spark4 coming full circle to a db:
Variant data type seemingly like jsonb, sql udfs for portability and optimizer transparency, ansi-sql standard.
Variant data type seemingly like jsonb, sql udfs for portability and optimizer transparency, ansi-sql standard.
May 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
spark4 coming full circle to a db:
Variant data type seemingly like jsonb, sql udfs for portability and optimizer transparency, ansi-sql standard.
Variant data type seemingly like jsonb, sql udfs for portability and optimizer transparency, ansi-sql standard.
Wow, pipe syntax is getting more adoption, that’s impressive.
Apache Spark 4.0 is out with some huge improvements across the board. SQL’s much more powerful, Spark Connect makes it easier to run apps, new languages and more. It’s amazing to see the community still growing fast and releasing over 5000 patches in 4.0. www.databricks.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing Apache Spark 4.0
Explore Apache Spark 4.0's key updates: advanced SQL features, improved Python support, enhanced streaming, and productivity boosts for big data analytics.
www.databricks.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wow, pipe syntax is getting more adoption, that’s impressive.
Refreshing take - for a long time after the pandemic, there was a ton of hate for people who genuinely liked to RTO. Great to see the other side of this.
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Refreshing take - for a long time after the pandemic, there was a ton of hate for people who genuinely liked to RTO. Great to see the other side of this.
Underrated about remote work - the fact that I can pace around at home, in deep thought, with no worries about people thinking I’m digging a hole into the ground. #AreYouAPacer
May 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Underrated about remote work - the fact that I can pace around at home, in deep thought, with no worries about people thinking I’m digging a hole into the ground. #AreYouAPacer