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Founder of Scarf (scarf.sh) Board @ Haskell Foundation Startups and open source analytics

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Avi Press @avi.press · 13/07/2026
I haven't been using bluesky much these days but I realized this platform would probably enjoy roasting us for this the most, so re-posting here: avi.press/posts/2026-0...
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After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell — Avi Press
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Avi Press @avi.press · 19/01/2026
My usage of AI has changed dramatically over the past month, so it was fun to document a snapshot of my current setup. avi.press/posts/2026-0...
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A Snapshot of How I'm Using AI in January 2026
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Avi Press @avi.press · 11/12/2025
Haskell community! We need everyone to take the state of Haskell survey.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 17/10/2025
scarf-js is now at 4M weekly downloads on npm and growing quickly. This is your periodic reminder that telemetry in OSS when done properly is Good, actually.
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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What's @avi.press of the State of Open Con Advisory Board by Openuk saying about it? Save the dates, 3/4 February 2026, to join the UK's open technology conference, stateofopencon.com #soocon26 #opensource #openuk #AI #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards #opensourcesoftware
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Avi Press @avi.press · 10/09/2025
If you're at OpenSearchCon today, I'm giving a talk at 11:25, uncovering lessons from billions (and now, trillions) of open source downloads. Hope to see you there, it will be fun!
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Avi Press @avi.press · 22/08/2025
I recently talked about how Haskell is still missing good Parquet support. Excited to see how github.com/mchav/datafr... from @mschav.bsky.social develops, looks promising!
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GitHub - mchav/dataframe: A fast, safe, and intuitive DataFrame library.
A fast, safe, and intuitive DataFrame library. Contribute to mchav/dataframe development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 25/06/2025
The @haskell.org bluesky account is on fire, hit that follow button.
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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Discover The State of Open Source in Numbers: Metrics, Trends, and Predictions with panel @avi.press, @scarf_oss , Brian Douglas, Open Sauced, Jennifer Barth, @openuk.bsky.social, Symmetry, @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, CHAOSS Project. Watch the full video from SOOCon25: buff.ly/4ht27b3
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Avi Press @avi.press · 28/02/2025
Hashicorp did a controversial relicense of some of its OSS. Redhat never did anything like that. Both had great sales to IBM.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 27/02/2025
I did a double-take on this Haskell Foundation update. Looks like there is another one besides @haskell.org ! This HF also looks like it is doing Good work.
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Scarf @scarf.sh · 24/01/2025
How is open source measured, and what do the numbers tell us about its future? Join Avi Press (@avi.press) on Feb 4 at #SOOCon25 for "The State of Open Source in Numbers" with Brian Douglas, Dawn Foster & Jennifer Barth. Tickets: stateofopencon.com #StateOfOpenCon @openuk.bsky.social
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- State of Open Conference 25
The UK's Open Technology Conference: Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data, Open Standards, & AI Openness. 4 and 5 February, 2025 at Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul's London EC4M ...
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Avi Press @avi.press · 22/01/2025
This is a remarkable milestone for us. 10 billion events across OSS documentation views, downloads and telemetry. *0* records of PII are stored, preserving user-privacy even from Scarf itself. Better usage visibility for OSS maintainers -> more sustainable OSS for everyone!
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Avi Press @avi.press · 22/01/2025
Neat! github.com/seanhess/hyp... Phoenix LiveView is really powerful, cool to see those concepts ported to Haskell.
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GitHub - seanhess/hyperbole: Haskell interactive serverside web framework inspired by HTMX, Elm, and Phoenix LiveView
Haskell interactive serverside web framework inspired by HTMX, Elm, and Phoenix LiveView - seanhess/hyperbole
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Avi Press @avi.press · 18/01/2025
If you or someone you know wants to join me on the @haskell.org committee, nominations are open! Help us make Haskell the very best language and community it can be.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 06/01/2025
My talk is live! Hear how @scarf.sh uses @clickhouse.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_B...
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Helping Open Source Technology companies with Scarf.sh
YouTube video by ClickHouse
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Avi Press @avi.press · 28/12/2024
Not bad honestly
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Avi Press @avi.press · 27/12/2024
With the holiday slowness, I finally have time to fix my borked nix setup! Ever since I upgraded to Sequoia, it's been completely broken. Let's see what happens. So far, both the main installer and determinate nix installer are failing.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 27/12/2024
Ghostty is really nice so far. Noticeably snappier on my mac.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 22/12/2024
Would I get notable performance improvements from switching from Spacemacs to Doom Emacs? My workload is 90% org mode + org-roam
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Avi Press @avi.press · 21/12/2024
Streams on object storage heats up even further: s2.dev
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S2, the Stream Store
Streams as a cloud storage primitive
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Avi Press @avi.press · 21/12/2024
Lofi Girl, the YouTube channel, makes enough money that they are running ads on the Champions Chess Tour right now, that's wild.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 21/12/2024
MoonBit looks neat, native WASM targeting as well as a comprehensive toolchain as a first-class part of the language seems like a very strong value proposition. www.moonbitlang.com
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MoonBit
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Avi Press @avi.press · 18/12/2024
Blown away to learn that rabbits can die after not eating for just half a day.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 17/12/2024
Today’s episode of “unexpected things that tik tok has uncovered I enjoy watching”: the best NBA passes of all time?! I had no idea I liked basketball.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 15/12/2024
I have yet to upgrade macOS versions without nix becoming absolutely broken. From what I can tell, claims that it's getting better on Mac are exaggerated.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 11/12/2024
One of the world's worst app features: Just got a notification that my dad made a Telegram account. He passed away a few years ago, but I guess it's good to know his old phone number has now been recycled.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 11/12/2024
@clickhouse.com has been one of my favorite pieces of technology that we adopted at @scarf.sh this year. I'll be giving a talk on Thursday about our experience with it so far, and how we use it to deliver real-time analytics on billions of OSS downloads. www.meetup.com/clickhouse-s...
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ClickHouse Meetup @ Cloudflare, Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Hello ClickHouse Enthusiasts! We’re really excited to host another ClickHouse Meetup at the Cloudflare Office - San Francisco on December 12th, 2024. The creator of ClickH
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Avi Press @avi.press · 10/12/2024
"Hey, we're suing Thomson Reuters for selling your personal information. Please give us your personal information so we can include you. We promise not to sell your personal information. Don't mind the Facebook and Google Ads pixels on our site." clearprivacysettlement.com/submit-claim
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CLEAR Privacy Settlement
If you resided in California for any period of time between December 3, 2016, and October 31, 2024, you may be entitled to a payment from a $27.5 million class action settlement.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 10/12/2024
Join us at Scarf Summit today! You’ll see the cutting edge in OSS usage analytics, connect with other GTM leaders in the space, and of course, see what #Haskell is doing in production. The scale is large. Registration link in the quoted post.
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Ida Bzo (Bzowska) @idabzo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If the idea of seeing #Haskell thrive in production makes your heart skip a lambda, you’re in for a treat @Scarf.sh Summit is happening today, and it’s packed with insights and success stories—all with a little functional programming magic. 🕒 Dec 10, 3:00PM EST 📍Online about.scarf.sh/webinars/sca...
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Avi Press @avi.press · 10/12/2024
I feel like not enough people are talking about this here, this is a Really Big Deal. www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24...
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Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements
Google’s quantum computing initiative is getting more advanced.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 08/12/2024
Looks like every single package on npm right now returns a 404? www.npmjs.com/package/react I was originally checking on scarf-js and had a moment of panic that perhaps it got removed or taken down or something.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 07/12/2024
I am not Israeli, but my first name is very Israeli. Recently, people increasingly ask me where I’m from when they first meet me, it is often *brimming* with anticipatory judgement that I might be from Israel. Being at conferences the past few weeks have unfortunately highlighted a lot.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 05/12/2024
It's great that there was no tsunami in the bay area - BUT - adrenaline levels were quite high for such an anti-climactic ending.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 04/12/2024
This was an interesting announcement today: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... Doing analytics on object storage makes a lot of sense and this is a very ergonomic way for a lot of companies to start with it
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Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads
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Scarf @scarf.sh · 03/12/2024
#ScarfSummit is coming on Dec 10! Join Kevin White from Common Room and Soham Maniar from @weaviate.bsky.social as we discuss why open source usage data matters for commercial OSS businesses. Register: about.scarf.sh/webinars/sca...
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/12/2024
GHC API users! The Haskell Foundation's work to establish a stable GHC API needs your input. Get in touch today: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-api-ca... #Haskell
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GHC API: Call for requirements
Dear all, I am pleased to announce that the Haskell Foundation and Tweag are resuming efforts to define a stable API for GHC, and that I will continue the work of Alexis King as coordinator of the in...
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Avi Press @avi.press · 03/12/2024
Why is mac spotlight so bad? Literally can't reliably find applications that are installed to my Applications folder. Are there better alternatives that anyone would recommend?
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Avi Press @avi.press · 03/12/2024
re:Invent thoughts: wow so many companies were “AI Native” this whole time? What are the chances?
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Avi Press @avi.press · 02/12/2024
Genuine question: what is the purpose of a WiFi password at a conference of, say, 60k people? What is the password actually protecting? Why not just open the network up for ease of access? No one is doing sensitive work over bare http anymore.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 02/12/2024
This is how you know your business has really made it - when your customers pay you so much money, so reliably, that they need to configure their invoices.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 30/11/2024
Raycast is really good, but I want a fully OSS version of it to lean into it.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 30/11/2024
Who is going to be at reinvent this week?
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Avi Press @avi.press · 30/11/2024
Look at that fresh new handle @haskell.org 😎
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 29/11/2024
Happy Friday
A logo of a "Prohibited" sign in green rather than red. In the border there is written "We do not test on animals, we test in production". A drawing of a rabbit with a heart next to it is in the upper part of the logo, a drawing of a server bay in flames in the bottom part.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 29/11/2024
How accurate are watch based sleep trackers? From looking at my data, it feels… not terribly accurate. But maybe I’m wrong?
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Rebecca Skinner @cercerilla.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Amazing work improving the Haskell tooling ecosystem this year. Huge thanks to all of the contributors and mentors, and to Aaron for all of the work he does organizing our participation in GSoC.
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Avi Press @avi.press · 29/11/2024
Good morning
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Avi Press @avi.press · 29/11/2024
Spatchcocked buttermilk turkey is my favorite way to cook a turkey, it came out really good again this year.
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