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Peter Szalai
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I like data
e/acc people are prophets of false gods.
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's going to be so much work
October 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's been a good day
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
May 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you know, you know
March 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm danger
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I, too, sometimes forget, how I started. Typing CSVs by hand

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6...
Small Data
YouTube video by KRAZAM
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
According to Grok, I'm such a @duckdb.org fan that I'm designing their mascot.
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This ~one-liner @raycast.com command saves more mental bandwidth, than most productivity tool.
January 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Leetle #2 1/6 1:42

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
January 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"work hard play hard" is an bimodal distribution strategy
January 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Attention is the only zero-sum game worth playing.
January 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
If posting daily was my resolution, this meta post would count.
January 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm on this pucture and I don't like it
chris.blue Chris @chris.blue · Dec 13
A friend's dad once told me the easiest way to get an an engineer to do something was simply to declare that it couldn't be done. This stuck with me.
December 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Water:~5C
Air: 5C

#coldwaterswimming
December 7, 2024 at 2:43 PM
but they dictate your password over Teams call if you ask nicely.
December 4, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Trying to pass an Arrow table from @duckdb.org to a legacy Go service built as a shared lib, in Python.

*legacy means I don't want to rewrite the Go service
December 1, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Water:~5C
Air: -3C
#coldwaterswimming
November 30, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Choosing Apache Spark in 2024 for tabular data processing.

Is there any another good option?
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Peter Szalai
Important announcement:
November 22, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I got promoted because of @duckdb.org ; I take no credit.

Best piece of tech in recent years.
November 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I got fed up with X when I couldn't export my bookmarks using the API for free.

(on @bsky.app there are no bookmarks, so I have no problem)
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 AM
registered my domain. so @dfel.es can mention me easier.
November 24, 2024 at 8:46 PM
not having any followers feels libarating.

not like my 70 followers on twitter is a big constrant
November 21, 2023 at 7:35 AM