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Christian Himpe

@gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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I am a mathematician working in #ResearchData #DataEngineering; enjoying the intersection of the #LISP dialect #SchemeLang with #RetroComputing in #DOS 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@gramian, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
From programmer to developer to coherator: "The decoherence trap" maevyn.codes/decoherence is a great essay about software coherence.
maevyn.codes
The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the abyss...
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
ArcadeDB 26.10.2 is out: • Query admission gate + list/terminate running queries • Point lookups 3 to 7x faster • Native openCypher temporals • Raft HA: schema changes reach every node arcadedb.com/blog/arcaded...
arcadedb.com
ArcadeDB 26.10.2: Query Admission Gate, Terminate Running Queries, Faster Point Lookups, and Native Cypher Temporals
ArcadeDB 26.10.2 closes 682 issues and pull requests across about 1,360 commits. A query admission gate and list/terminate for running queries arrive, point lookups get 3 to 7 times faster through a s...
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𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖉Ω𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍 @randogoth.com · 14/10/2026
Nobody: Absolutely nobody: DR-DOS drops version 9 🔥 www.dr-dos.com/index.html
dr-dos.com
The Official DR DOS Website - DR DOS
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Version 0.6 of SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS - slightly faster, slightly larger, and graphics! sled.neocities.org #LISP #Scheme #DOS
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
SLED is a symbolic Scheme-inspired LISP for DOS.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Inspiring: #C64 "Standard Character Mode", www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Standard_Char… , abbreviated #SCM , which is coincidentally also the file extension for #SchemeLang source code ...
c64-wiki.com
Standard Character Mode - C64-Wiki
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Version 0.5 of SLED - Schemy LISP for DOS - slightly smaller yet more robust: sled.neocities.org #Scheme #LISP #DOS
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
SLED is a symbolic Scheme-inspired LISP for DOS.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
I really like the zero-dimensional Brainfuck variant "|": esolangs.org/wiki/%C2%A6
esolangs.org
¦ - Esolang
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Back in the 1980s, there was better software documentation than one typically sees today. For example, just flip through the LISP/80 docs: archive.org/details/the-software-to… #RetroComputing #Lisp
archive.org
The Software Toolworks Lisp 80 : Walt Bilofsky : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Software ToolworksLisp/80
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Make your #DOS ready-to-code for the language of #AI (aka #LISP ) with SLED: sled.neocities.org
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
SLED is a LISP for DOS.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Just a reminder: if you want a developer-optimized and distraction-free experience on a Microsoft operating system , use #MSDOS . Instead of 64GB you need less than 1MB RAM. blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/…
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ArcadeDB 26.9.1 is out: 992 issues and pull requests closed over 1,500 commits, our largest release ever. A full backup of a 1.25 GB database now takes 0.68s instead of 18.88s. 27.6x faster. arcadedb.com/blog/arcaded...
arcadedb.com
ArcadeDB 26.9.1: 27.6x Faster Backups, Query Correctness Fixes, and 6 Security Advisories
ArcadeDB 26.9.1 is the largest release we have ever shipped: 992 issues and pull requests closed, 1,500 commits. Full backups are 27.6x faster and no longer stall writers, a family of wrong-result def...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
How and why oh why did I miss #PixelX86 and the Pixel X86 Mini: pixelx86.com/product/pixel-mini Will it come back? #RetroComputing
pixelx86.com
Pixel x86 Mini - Configure! | Pixelx86.com
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Adrian @acka47.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Die 20. metadaten.community-Stunde widmen wir dem Thema "IT-Systeme & (Meta)Datenflüsse verstehen und visualisieren". Nach einem Impulsvortrag von Peter Heiss (ULB Münster) wird es es Raum für Fragen, Diskussion und Erfahrungsaustausch geben. Details unter […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]
Sharepic zur Veranstaltung mit einem Bild von arc42.org und Test:

20. metadaten.community-Stunde
IT-Systeme & (Meta)Datenflüsse verstehen und visualisieren
mit einem Impulsvortrag von Peter Heiss (ULB Münster)
Freitag, 4.9., 10-11 Uhr

Austausch Praxis Kooperation
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Version 0.4 of SLED - Schemy LISP for DOS - smaller and faster again: sled.neocities.org #Scheme #LISP #DOS
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
SLED is a LISP for DOS.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
The (German-language) book "LISP - Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte" (LISP - Applications, Fundamentals, History) doi.org/10.1515/9783112563724 is an unusual compilation of pre-1980 LISP dialects. #Lisp #RetroComputing #RetroProgramming
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
CHICKEN Scheme 6.0 has been released: call-cc.org #SchemeLang #Scheme #Lisp
call-cc.org
CHICKEN Scheme
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ArcadeDB 26.8.1 is out. 669 commits. 381 issues closed. - 13 security advisories patched. - Concurrent insert conflicts: ~1750 to 0 - Super-node deletes: 5x faster - Geospatial indexes: 11x smaller on disk No schema migration. Just upgrade. arcadedb.com/blog/arcaded...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Version 0.3 of SLED - Schemy LISP for DOS - is even faster: sled.neocities.org #Scheme #LISP #DOS
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Creators of math, or code, or music, it devours all alive: kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-…
kirwinhampshire.substack.com
The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Data products overview: "The Modern Data-Stack: Open-Source Edition", www.datafold.com/blog/the-modern-da… #DataEngineering
datafold.com
The Modern Data Stack: Open-source edition
50+ open-source data tools compared across ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, streaming, and BI. Updated April 2026 with live GitHub stats and comparison tables.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
SLED is based on and inspired by @AverageDog 's Kilo LISP.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
Here is a fresh Ur-LISP for DOS: "SLED - Schemy Lisp en DOS": sled.neocities.org #RetroProgramming #RetroComputing #Lisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #DOS #FreeDOS #MSDOS #DOSBox
sled.neocities.org
SLED - Schemy LISP en DOS
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
Chaos engineering for #ArcadeDB : @arcadedb.bsky.social has some initial @jepsen testing: arcadedb.com/blog/arcadedb-jepsen-t…
arcadedb.com
Call Me Maybe, ArcadeDB? 34 Jepsen Tests, 34 Passes
ArcadeDB passed 34 of 34 in-house Jepsen tests on its Raft (Apache Ratis) HA stack: ACID, linearizability, and transaction isolation under partitions, crashes, pauses, and clock skew.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
Does anybody know if "NanoLisp" by "Microcomputer Systems Consultants" ( www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/… ) is archived somewhere? Or at least some of its documentation? #Lisp #RetroComputing
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
Hallo Magdeburg. Let's go #MDDevDays !
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
The Internet archive @internetarchive did not save the website, but associated dumps and CD images: archive.org/search?query=%22Program…
archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
Back in the day "Programmers Heaven" used to be a knowledge hub for all things programming / coding / development; AFAIK here is what's left of it today: www.infania.net/misc1/programmers_h… #RetroComputing
infania.net
Programmers Heaven: Main menu
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚀 ArcadeDB 26.5.1 is out! + Sparse Vector Index (BM25/SPLADE) + Server-side Hybrid Retrieval (RRF, DBSF, LINEAR) + INT8 quantization end-to-end + EXTERNAL property storage + Query partitioning 270+ commits, 128 issues closed arcadedb.com/blog/arcaded...
arcadedb.com
ArcadeDB 26.5.1: Sparse Vector Index, Hybrid Retrieval & INT8 End-to-End
ArcadeDB 26.5.1 ships a brand-new sparse vector index with server-side hybrid retrieval, INT8 quantization end-to-end, EXTERNAL property storage, query partitioning, offline HA cluster bootstrap, and ...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
We are happy to release version 0.9 of **DatAasee** - a metadata-lake for libraries: github.com/ulbmuenster/dataasee #DatAasee is an #OpenSource #Metadata hub.
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GitHub - ulbmuenster/dataasee: DatAasee - A Metadata-Lake for Libraries
DatAasee - A Metadata-Lake for Libraries. Contribute to ulbmuenster/dataasee development by creating an account on GitHub.
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ArcadeDB 26.4.2 is out. 340+ commits. 100+ issues closed. Highlights: - Raft-based HA (Apache Ratis) - End-to-end Query Profiler - Major OpenCypher correctness round - Bolt + TLS - Batch UPDATE/DELETE/TRUNCATE - COLLATE case-insensitive indexes Thread below.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026
@3sat Hong Kong
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
#Lisp (and #Scheme) can be fast: "Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark", www.stylewarning.com/posts/nbody
stylewarning.com
Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Selected #Metadata Standards: gist.github.com/gramian/a91e5cbf601…
gist.github.com
Selected Metadata Standards
Selected Metadata Standards. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
@andybalaam LOL
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
If we just had languages to unambiguously compose instructions for computers without the imprecision of natural language: "A sufficiently detailed spec is code", haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-suffici…
haskellforall.com
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
Nobody would need to, if you wouldn't for complexity: "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity", terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nob… #xp
terriblesoftware.org
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We're excited to announce ArcadeDB 26.3.1! Major news: redesigned Studio with an AI assistant, built-in MCP server support, geospatial indexing, a new TimeSeries data model, materialized views, hash indexes, 72 built-in graph algorithms, parallel query execution github.com/ArcadeData/a...
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Release 26.3.1 · ArcadeData/arcadedb
ArcadeDB 26.3.1 Release Notes We're excited to announce ArcadeDB 26.3.1, a feature-packed release with 190+ commits and 52 closed issues that brings major new capabilities including a completely re...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
When DuckDB is too much: treat your #CSV as a database with "csvq": mithrandie.github.io/csvq #OpenSource
mithrandie.github.io
csvq - SQL-like query language for csv
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
Gung Hei Faat Coi! 🐎
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
ArcadeDB 26.2.1 is out! Biggest highlights: - @Neo4j Bolt protocol support - use standard Neo4j drivers - Full @openCypher TCK compliance - New SQL parser - SQL Triggers (SQL, JS, Java) - Scheduled Backups 200+ issues closed github.com/ArcadeData/a... #graphdb #multimodel
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Release 26.2.1 · ArcadeData/arcadedb
@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ ArcadeDB 26.2.1 Release Notes We're excited to announce ArcadeDB 26.2.1, a massive release that brings 484 commits and 200+ closed issues with significant advancements across the p...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
@alexshendi @arcadedb.bsky.social @librewolf @AverageDog Having fun and seeing what you can do with a pure symbolic LISP. Long term plan is some game dev ...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026
#ILoveFS ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social Librewolf @librewolf KiloLISP @AverageDog Thank you for your dedicated work!
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
No, it's worse: "I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed", www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thi…
jamesdrandall.com
我七岁开始编程。如今五十岁了,曾经热爱的事物已然改变。
I started programming when I was 7. I''m 50 now and the thing I loved has changed (www.jamesdrandall.com) 02-10  ↑ 110 HN Points
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
Live in Concert - B-Sharp Bigband: Samstag, 28. Februar 2026 17:00 Uhr, in der Aula der Profilschule Herbern. Tickets gibt es via: msa.ticket.io/aZxsKuO2
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
A lot of good points: "Designing Mathematical Software for Humans", dzone.com/articles/designing-mathem… #RSE #Math
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ArcadeDB v26.1.1 is out! New Native OpenCypher Engine, huge LSM Vector updates (Quantization, PQ and much more), 92 total issues resolved (!) github.com/ArcadeData/a... #ArcadeDB #GraphDB #OpenCypher #VectorSearch #Database #OpenSource
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Release 26.1.1 · ArcadeData/arcadedb
ArcadeDB 26.1.1 Release Notes We're excited to announce ArcadeDB 26.1.1, a significant release that brings 92 closed issues and introduces major new capabilities to the platform. This release marks...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@andybalaam/1156959… Still available via @internetarchive : web.archive.org/web/20251212090638/…
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ArcadeDB @arcadedb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚀 ArcadeDB v25.12.1 is here! ✅ Fixed critical vector quantization bug ✅ New filtered vector search support ✅ Improved SQL functions & transaction logic ✅ 60+ dependency updates Release notes: github.com/ArcadeData/a... #ArcadeDB #VectorDatabase #OpenSource
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Release 25.12.1 · ArcadeData/arcadedb
ArcadeDB 25.12.1 Release Notes We're excited to announce the release of ArcadeDB v25.12.1! This release includes significant bug fixes, new features, performance improvements, and dependency update...
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Christian Himpe @gramian.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026
A readworthy summary of data architecture insights: "How I Structure My Data Pipelines" loglevelinfo.substack.com/p/how-i-s… #DataEngineering
loglevelinfo.substack.com
How I Structure My Data Pipelines
Making sense of ~5 years of vendor speak, 10 different architectures that are actually the same, semantic layers finally maturing, and a Bartridge in a B-tree.
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