SaaS Metrics
Evolving Utility, AI Integration
Sql
AI Synthesis & Market Narrative
SQL continues to evolve as a versatile data language, with new extensions like ggsql enabling direct visualization descriptions within queries and embedded databases like DuckDB gaining traction for analytical processing. AI's impact is evident, with LLMs demonstrating capability in generating practical SQL queries, suggesting a shift towards more accessible and automated data analysis.
Correlated Linguistic Patterns
["Grammar of Graphics for SQL"
"DuckDB is an in-process SQL database"
"LLMs will make more of your average stuff"]
Curiosity Velocity (60 Days)
WIKIPEDIA API
Tracing the intersection of media narratives and actual public search interest. Dashed line is 7-day SMA.
Driving Media Context
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
Error'd: Having a Beastly Time
It's time again for a reader special, and once again it's all The Beast In Black (there must be a story to that nick, no?).
"MySQL is not better than your S...
Average Is All You Need
LLMs will make more of your average stuff. And that's OK. Here's how average SQL beats fancy attribution models when your agent writes the queries.
Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals
DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB h...
I was put on a PIP at Amazon and took an offer to leave. I thought finding a new job would be easy — I was wrong.
An Amazon program manager took a termination package after being put on a PIP. Moving to Houston and changing his strategy helped him land a new job.
A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust
Linter-fast security scanning and policy checks for catching regressions before deploy. - PwnKit-Labs/foxguard
Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude
We asked Claude to find a bug in Vim. It found an RCE. Just open a file, and you’re owned. We joked: fine, we’ll switch to Emacs. Then Claude found an RCE th...
Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)
LocalStack is no longer free. MiniStack is. 30 AWS services, real database containers, 2-second startup. MIT licensed.