Not about tech this time: I recently donated some of my stem cells to a patient with blood cancer, who I don't know, somewhere in the world. You too can register yourself to save a life: NL=matchis.nl/word-stamceldonor, USA=nmdp.org/get-involved/join-t…, and Google for other countries

This has been my last few months: Getting MotherDuck to speak the Postgres protocol! There's still a long road ahead to support all the BI and schema management tools. But I won't rest until \d works! But first some parental leave. motherduck.com/blog/motherdu…

I'm now officially a Major Contributor of Postgres: postgresql.org/community/con…

I did a talk about the main project I've been working on for the past year: "pg_duckdb". So if you're curious what that is, give it a watch: youtu.be/0kc-W5o0tcg #posetteconf

Just finished recording my talk for POSETTE about pg_duckdb. You can watch the live stream together with me on June 11th. Because it's recorded I'll be able to constantly answer questions during the stream. More info: posetteconf.com/2025/talks/p…

Today I finally tried out the new "Instant SQL" feature that @hamiltonulmer has been teasing for months. The immediate feedback really feels like MAGIC. For more fancy GIFs check out todays release blogpost: motherduck.com/blog/introduc… Be sure to try it out, you won't wanna go back

PgBouncer 1.24.1 is out. It fixes CVE-2025-2291, which allowed expired passwords to still be accepted. It also fixes a few issues introduced in 1.24.0. github.com/pgbouncer/pgbounc…

pg_duckdb 0.3 was just released! Major features include: Support for using PG indexes, a much easier syntax for querying parquet/csv/iceberg files in blob storage, and last but not least: ✨A shiny new logo✨ Changelog at: github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb/…

I had a great discussion with @thegeeknarrator about putting DuckDB into Postgres using pg_duckdb. You can watch it here: youtu.be/Qn9_J_HI53o

PgBouncer 1.24.0 is out, with many improvements. And prepared statement support is now turned on by default! github.com/pgbouncer/pgbounc…

It was lots of fun talking about pg_duckdb on @PostgresFM

pg_duckdb v0.2.0 is out: Now with Delta Lake, JSON, Azure and transaction support github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb/…

I've been bashing DuckDB and Postgres together for the past three months. It has been very challenging, but also extremely fun. There's sooo much more to do... But it's already extremely fast for some queries. So here's a v0.1.0 release. Try it out and please report any bugs

I'm now officially listed as a PostgreSQL contributor 🎉postgresql.org/message-id/fl…

There's about a 1 in 50000 chance that your genetics match with the patient in such a way that you can be a donor. I signed up ~8 years ago and suddenly heard back a while ago. But that does mean that they need many people to sign up to be able to help all patients.

For anyone curious: This is what I've been working on the past month

Finally the side-project I created ~8.5 years ago to auto-generate boring code has reached version 1.0.0 github.com/JelteF/derive_mor… With 150k+ repos using one of the previous versions I'm happy to be helping lazy devs like myself everywhere. #derive_more #rustlang

In ~20 minutes my talk on prepared statements and connection poolers is starting at @PosetteConf Go watch it live here: citusdata.com/posette/2024/ And if you miss it, you can ofcourse watch the recording on that same website later