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Jorin @jorin.me · 19/08/2026

Shaper now runs a dedicated security pipeline for any code changes. Why? I am seeing too many reports of open source projects and companies having data breaches and other security issues lately. And my biggest nightmare is to wake up one day and see that this happened to any Shaper users. 1/2

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 17/08/2026

Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt + @hannes.muehleisen.org preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to land this autumn): • DuckDB as a server • Triggers • async I/O • + more Dive into the deets: duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d...

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Jorin @jorin.me · 14/08/2026

I spent most of my day in a single markdown file: It's my todo list. It's where I think through concepts. It's where I draft mails, Github issues and content. I have been doing this for years. But since coding agents, even coding is just copying over prompts into my terminal.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 10/08/2026

We just added Single Sign-On functionality to Shaper. And we made it open source. Here is why. taleshape.com/blog/why-ope...

Why is Shaper's Single Sign-On Feature Open Source?

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 05/08/2026

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🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Wow! DuckDB just surpassed 40k stars on GitHub. Thank you to everyone whose contributions, bugfixes, and – of course – stars made this milestone possible. 🦆✨ Here's (a very brief bit of) what’s happened since the last 10k-star milestone: duckdb.org/2026/08/05/g... Next stop: 50k. 💪🏽

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Jorin @jorin.me · 07/08/2026

New Shaper Feature: Single Sign-On Shaper now supports external user management with JWT-based SSO. No separate user login to manage. No password to remember. And it's open source and free to use. See it in action:

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Jorin @jorin.me · 05/08/2026

Did you know you can read 100s of books for completely free:

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Jorin @jorin.me · 05/08/2026

One of the best things I did in 2026 so far is reading fiction again. Got an ereader. Downloaded a bunch of books and manga. This plus no more phone in the bedroom.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 28/07/2026

How does Shaper compare to other data visualization tools? @dataders.bsky.social built a cool project to compare 10+ code-based dashboarding tools. The project is completely code-based and processes data with DBT, then visualizes the results. Most of the tools directly generate static HTML. 1/2

Jorin @jorin.me · 27/07/2026

2026 is the year of Bash. I am back to managing servers with shell scripts. Docker Swarm and Nomad are dead. It's all Kubernetes now. 1/3

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Jorin @jorin.me · 15/07/2026

Just the other day I had Claude optimize my laptop's performance and battery usage - now I know what zram, tlp and thermald are.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 15/07/2026

I am running Linux for over 10 years and it's never been a better time to give it a try: More reasons than ever to want more control over your setup: 1/3

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Jorin @jorin.me · 14/07/2026

Added a new chart type to @taleshape.com: Scatter Plots This is how you define this chart in SQL: SELECT 'Session Durations'::LABEL; SELECT created_at::XAXIS, category::CATEGORY, duration::SCATTERPLOT, FROM dataset GROUP BY ALL ORDER BY ALL; Docs for more: taleshape.com/shaper/docs/...

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Jorin @jorin.me · 28/05/2026

New @aleshape.com Visualization Option: Confidence Bands Allows you to show a band for a line chart which is great to show extra statistical context (the confidence of a prediction, the spread of a distribution, etc) It's a nice middle ground between only show a line and showing a full Boxplot

Jorin @jorin.me · 26/05/2026

Did you know you can download @taleshape.com dashboards with SQL? Use Shaper's API to download PDFs, images, Excel files and so on. Call the API with the DuckDB http_client extensions from a Shaper task to post charts to Slack, email a weekly PDF report or automate anything else you can think of.

Jorin @jorin.me · 25/05/2026

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It's not pretty but works. In the future I will add SQL functions similar to the macro to generate files without needing an API key. And I am thinking to create a generic DuckDB extension to send mail, slack messages and so. Can also generate png, excel, csv & json. Will dm you the code!

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Jorin @jorin.me · 22/05/2026

Skills for @taleshape.com are here: Use with Claude Code/Codex/Gemini to create dashboards quickly. With the skills the agent knows Shaper SQL, validates the create dashboard and gives you a preview URL once ready. More here: github.com/taleshape-co...

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Jorin @jorin.me · 15/05/2026

The @taleshape.com CLI just got an upgrade 🚀️ New Commands: - fetch the database schema - validate a dashboard - open a preview in the browser Task Support: - Tasks a files: mytask.task.sql - Run task on startup: `SELECT 'init'::SCHEDULE;` 1/3

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Jorin @jorin.me · 07/05/2026

Did you know duckdb.org's UNPIVOT feature? You rarely need them but from time to time PIVOT and UNPIVOT really help to keep your SQL easy to read: PIVOT turns one row into multiple columns. UNPIVOT turns columns into multiple rows. 1/2

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Jorin @jorin.me · 07/05/2026

Just updated my Bluesky handle to @jorin.me If I would have known how simple it is, I would have done this from the beginning!

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Jorin @jorin.me · 06/05/2026

@taleshape.bsky.social Cloud is now in beta! The simplest way to start building dashboards and customer-facing analytics with Shaper. Let me know what you think: taleshape.com/plans-and-pr...

Tangled @tangled.org · 01/05/2026

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Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/

blog.tangled.org

combat LLM spam by building a web of trust

vouching on tangled!

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Jorin @jorin.me · 01/05/2026

The @taleshape.bsky.social docs now have live examples 📊 Examples are now embedded as live dashboards instead of only screenshots. With this you can also directly see the differences between light and dark mode:

Jorin @jorin.me · 30/04/2026

Is anyone else getting flooded with pull requests with numeric titles and cryptic descriptions in Chinese? I'll take it as a sign for @taleshape.bsky.social getting more popular 🙌

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Jorin @jorin.me · 29/04/2026

I have seen @taleshape.bsky.social provide the most value to companies in healthcare and other regulated industries. I like to double down on that and need your help: 1/2

Jorin @jorin.me · 27/04/2026

Just posted my first post on substack: jorinwrites.substack.com/p/how-to-ach... I want to improve my writing and try something new. The plan is to explore a new question once a week without the need to find all the answers.

jorinwrites.substack.com

How to Achieve Big Goals?

What can we do to get to where we want to be in life, in work and as a society?

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Jorin @jorin.me · 27/04/2026

ggsql lets you build charts in SQL. Visualizations directly in SQL is also what @taleshape.bsky.social has always been about. And they are not competing: ggsql generalizes charting while shaper builds PDF reports and interactive dashboards, then integrates them into your systems. 1/2

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Jorin @jorin.me · 25/04/2026

have you tried disabling "smart complete" in your editor? I am much more focused when writing since I got rid of Copilot in my editor. 95% of the time the suggestions are useless and just interrupt my train of thought.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 22/04/2026

Did you know you can build a data analytics agent without the LLM ever seeing your data? That's what we did. We teach the LLM about your data and let it generates SQL. Then we use our open-source tool Shaper generate charts/PDF reports/Excel files and send them directly to you. 1/2

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Jorin @jorin.me · 20/04/2026

@duckdb.org is such a flexible tool that it's hard to categorize. Is it SQLite for analytics? Is it a SQL query engine for any data source? A dataframes alternative? A lightweight data lake?

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Jorin @jorin.me · 19/04/2026

It's probably the best time ever to get into game development: We gotta make use of all those GPUs out there somehow. And if any of those claims about our productivity in the near future are true, we should have lots of time to play games soon!

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Jorin @jorin.me · 16/04/2026

Did you know that with @duckdb.org you can directly query your database schema? When you combine this with considerate comments on your tables and columns it becomes a powerful tool to build agents and other systems that dynamically discover and learn to use your data.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 15/04/2026

I built a Slack data analytics agent on top of @taleshape.bsky.social. The agent answers your questions and uses our new API to directly send charts, Excel files or PDF reports into Slack. taleshape.com/blog/build-y...

Build Your Own Data Analytics Slack Agent With Shaper

Learn how to build a custom Slack AI agent for data analytics using Shaper to generate charts, Excel files, and PDF reports directly from SQL.

DuckDB @duckdb.org · 13/04/2026

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We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2. For more details, read the announcement blog post: ducklake.select/2026/04/13/d...

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DuckLake v1.0

We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 06/04/2026

Fiction is a great teacher:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

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Jorin @jorin.me · 06/04/2026

Working on something fun for @taleshape.bsky.social 👀 Send SQL get back an image or PDF report? Soon: Official API to generate downloads. Point to a dashboard or just send a SQL string. Either get back a file directly or get a URL to a file. And files can be data: JSON/CSV/XLSX, or also PDF or PNG.

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Jorin @jorin.me · 31/03/2026

I set up a minimal self-hosted data lake platform with DuckDB, DuckLake and @taleshape.bsky.social. The whole setup is a single docker compose file that covers all basic data needs from ingest and storage to transform and visualization: taleshape.com/blog/simple-...

Self-hosted Data Lake Platform with DuckDB, DuckLake and Shaper

Learn how to build a simple data lake platform that scales from $5 VM to petabytes of data with DuckDB, DuckLake and Shaper

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Jorin @jorin.me · 28/03/2026

Today @taleshape.bsky.social launched on Uneed and people seem to like it 👀 If you have a minute, I am happy about your support 🙏 www.uneed.best/tool/taleshape

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Shaper - a a duckdb powered dashboarding tool Interesting approach of extending SQL with dashboarding instructions. Slight difference to evidence with using SQL in markdown and then custom tags. taleshape.com/shaper/docs/

Shaper is an open source, minimal data platform to create analytics dashboards and embed them into your software.

Welcome to Shaper

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Jorin @jorin.me · 24/03/2026

@taleshape.bsky.social now offers hosting + support for Shaper! Fully-managed, On-Premise BI with White-Labeling for 150/month anyone? I am happy about any feedback🙏 And if you can think of any company that might be interested in code-first embedded analytics powered by DuckDB, please reach out 👀

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Jorin @jorin.me · 22/03/2026

I haven't updated my personal blog since starting @taleshape.bsky.social so I used that as a chance to give an update on why I am building Taleshape and where things stand right now: jorin.me/building-tal... Also: I am always happy about any ideas on where to take Taleshape next 🙏

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Building Taleshape — jorin.me

Building a business as independent developer around an open source data visualization tool

Jorin @jorin.me · 12/03/2026

My biggest recap from FOSSASIA this year: It's all AI now. I felt a stark contrast to last year that basically every talk is about AI. No one writing code by hand is already old news. And now everyone is automating all their processes with agents. It's a wild time to build a software product!