nicoritschel

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Comment · 19 days ago
> If it just had KQL syntax support, it would be perfect…

Good idea for an extension, especially with the new PEG parser.

Comment · 19 days ago
Very nice. Did you add support for Quack v3 already? (released alongside DuckDB 2.0)? Unfortunately it's not compatible with v1 so you'll need to adjust it.

We used to use Metabase but the cloud / self hosted divide was too much fiddling, along with the expression language.

Comment · 19 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Around a year ago, I found myself using Claude Code and Codex to search their own transcripts. At that time, this worked pretty well since I only had maybe a few hundred megabytes of agent session history. It was maybe not the most efficient way to recall details from past sessions, but life was good.

Fast forward to late 2026 and I couldn't imagine living without my tens of GBs of agent sessions fully indexed & ready to search. Memex allows you to search agent sessions cross-harness and even fork a session to another harness. Memex offers federated search across machines over SSH too and sync (into your own object storage) is coming soon. There's a CLI, a TUI, native Mac app, QT app, and an MCP server to use from web AI chat (I use Memex in ChatGPT with the "Pro" models quite regularly to plan).

Stop copy & pasting details between sessions or struggling to find an old agent session to resume!

Comment · 2 months ago
In this case, we do actually need live data! We use wide events for monitoring business events and it lets us understand our platform with utmost flexibility, which is important for us as a fintech company.

Traditional observability is ill-suited for observability around business events. What if you forget to instrument a counter or gauge for something? In my experience it's far easier to log wide events with as much context as possible instead of agonizing over anticipating the dimensionality of metrics upfront (you're going to miss something).

Comment · 2 months ago
Perhaps changing is a better word.

Yes this was also my experience working at a large tech co. I work in fintech now and data volumes are low enough to maintain 2-3 minute up to a few hour data freshness.

Comment · 2 months ago
And then you eventually just take the weekly files and combine them and you've reinvented data lakes with worse (no) metadata management
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
The one from npm is signed by OpenAI, which means computer use from the CLI. The brew distribution requires using the Codex app for computer use.

Thanks Apple.

Comment · 6 months ago
Check out mdnb.app if you want similar but truly native for macOS
Comment · 6 months ago
If you want proper native for macOS, check out mdnb.app

I built it with this exact ethos, a curated set of "extended" functionality instead of a plugin system.

What plugins do you rely on in Obsidian?

Comment · 6 months ago
Check out mdnb.app, a true native markdown app for macOS.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, check out mdnb.app
Comment · 6 months ago

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