Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)
Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century
Andy's Blog
Originally published in October, 2017 – over three years later in 2021 I am still happily using Posteo!
7. Death, and how tech forgot about mortality / Michael Kibedi / FFConf 2024
2025 Global Data Center Outlook
The data center sector will continue to grow at a phenomenal pace in 2025.
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.
A Graph-Based Firebase
This essay covers the design behind Instant. If the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise, would a database-looking solution solve them?
neodb-social/skybridge
🌁 bridge Popfeed & BookHive's AT Protocol records into the Fediverse as NeoDB-compatible activities.
Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture - Daniel's Leaflets
A special edition of the data diary that sketches out the rough shape of where we're heading.
2025.21: The Upheaval Coming for the Internet Economy
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 19, 2025, including AI and the future of the web, slam dunks and moonshots at Google, and OpenAI entering the hardware business.
Sebastian Raschka on Twitter / X
Pretty cool. I think 2025-2026 will be a stronger focus on these in open source tooling.I.e. having LLMs delegate knowledge-based queries to search, which in turn frees up model capacity to improve reasoning capabilities and tool use. https://t.co/wNTg283mb2— Sebastian Raschka (@rasbt) August 12, 2025
#atdev friends, if you had an analytics database of all atproto records, what are some interesting things you'd like to know? - how many total posts? - how many chars have been typed across all posts? - how many live/dead PDSes out there? - how many "Jerry, no!"s? - something with the social graph?
