DuckDB hype man, MotherDucker (I work at MotherDuck!), SQL nut, Pythonista, reluctant JS devhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3mijygvakls2aYou have to really love something to write a book about it. DuckLake makes PB-scale lakehouses simple: Postgres, Object Storage, DuckDB, & 6 lines of SQL. Chapter 1 of the @oreilly.bsky.social book I'm co-authoring just dropped - download for free at this link! https://motherduck.com/lp/ducklake-lakehouse-table-format-book-full/?utm_campaign=alex02 Apr 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijygvakls2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3mdvyjxbhvs2iI had a great time at @halfstackconf.bsky.social! Check out my slides to build lightning fast data viz on millions of rows with Mosaic and DuckDB-Wasm! It was great to get to know more of the Phoenix dev community and I picked up some new ideas around AI as well. #halfstack02 Feb 2026 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdvyjxbhvs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3mcal4fwjwk2kPhoenix area front end devs, join me at the HalfStack Conference Jan 30th! Use my link for 10% off! I'll be talking about 200 FPS data viz in your browser on millions of rows. I'm also excited to meet all of you! Don't miss trivia and karaoke afterwards... https://ti.to/halfstack/halfstack-phoenix-2026/discount/alex-200fps-awesome-1012 Jan 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcal4fwjwk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3ma4xyfn6622rPlanetscale Postgres and MotherDuck are an awesome combo - super easy to add analytics to your existing platform! Get the benefits of HTAP without the compromises [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2025 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4xyfn6622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3m6z73zq5k22uCheck out the DuckLake roadmap! What do you think is missing? There are some very practical features that learn from other table formats, plus some further investment in unique features like data inlining for fast tiny inserts. ducklake.select/roadmap https://ducklake.select/roadmap02 Dec 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6z73zq5k22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3m4lkipcfus273 options: - Keep the amazing name Duck Lake - Get rid of that pesky space and go full DuckLake - Towny McTownFace [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Nov 2025 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4lkipcfus27https://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3lzpkyh7gpk22How many 6 year old databases get 3x faster sorting??? When it was already world-class??? Amazing stuff from DuckDB! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Sep 2025 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzpkyh7gpk22https://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3lwhxz7pbc22n"GROUP BY ALL" was added to Oracle! Friendlier SQL to the rescue! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Aug 2025 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhxz7pbc22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3lw2khsiguc2yDuckDB may have an adorable mascot, but this is serious DB tech! As a larger-than-memory system, data durability is critical! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2025 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw2khsiguc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/a13x.bsky.social/post/3lu6yyo2g522bWe launched huge Mega and Giga instances this week, and the Small Data conference will celebrate that now we can all make big data feel small! Crunching large datasets in the year 2025 should not be complicated. Join us to learn from some of the best in the biz! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2025 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:e3fe54cbnttcggrmze2al2vk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu6yyo2g522b