David Gasquez
@davidgasquez.com
Data @ Protocol Labs.
Open Data, Open Source, Open Protocols.
Walks taker. Progressive Metal enjoyer.
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Open Data, Open Source, Open Protocols.
Walks taker. Progressive Metal enjoyer.
davidgasquez.com
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It's amazing how many declarative data stacks have emerged since I started this topic.
I just updated the list with the latest open-source once. Do you know of any others? Happy to append to the list.
Check out the full breakdown at .
I just updated the list with the latest open-source once. Do you know of any others? Happy to append to the list.
Check out the full breakdown at .
January 23, 2026 at 8:10 AM
It's amazing how many declarative data stacks have emerged since I started this topic.
I just updated the list with the latest open-source once. Do you know of any others? Happy to append to the list.
Check out the full breakdown at .
I just updated the list with the latest open-source once. Do you know of any others? Happy to append to the list.
Check out the full breakdown at .
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someone from github should write a check to tangled and merge it into main
i absolutely love our new code review page! it's orders of magnituted nicer being able to look at the diff while you author your review comments.
January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
someone from github should write a check to tangled and merge it into main
Realized I haven't used Jupyter Notebooks in a good while. Codex/CC with PEP 723 inline metadata knowledge has been doing it for myself.
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Realized I haven't used Jupyter Notebooks in a good while. Codex/CC with PEP 723 inline metadata knowledge has been doing it for myself.
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Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language!
Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.
🛌 this project has been a beast
Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.
🛌 this project has been a beast
Networking
7,370 languages visualized as a force-directed network
dr.eamer.dev
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language!
Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.
🛌 this project has been a beast
Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.
🛌 this project has been a beast
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
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formats over apps
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 7:05 AM
formats over apps
Shared an assortment of personal workflows I've found useful when working with "agents" across work, data, and research.
In 2025, I had ton of fun tinkering with this new way of working. I'm sure they won't last until next year.
Meanwhile, hope they're helpful!
davidgasquez.com/useful-agent...
In 2025, I had ton of fun tinkering with this new way of working. I'm sure they won't last until next year.
Meanwhile, hope they're helpful!
davidgasquez.com/useful-agent...
Thanks for sharing! Love seeing how other folks work and was very curious about your workflows specifically.
You are doing many interesting things, please keep sharing! 🙌
You are doing many interesting things, please keep sharing! 🙌
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Shared an assortment of personal workflows I've found useful when working with "agents" across work, data, and research.
In 2025, I had ton of fun tinkering with this new way of working. I'm sure they won't last until next year.
Meanwhile, hope they're helpful!
davidgasquez.com/useful-agent...
In 2025, I had ton of fun tinkering with this new way of working. I'm sure they won't last until next year.
Meanwhile, hope they're helpful!
davidgasquez.com/useful-agent...
December 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Been using Codex CLI for some tasks like tagging and entity extraction.
Turns out tasks get way easier when you force more small, local decisions without global context and then a few "aggregations" on top.
Accidentally rediscovered MapReduce again! 😅
Turns out tasks get way easier when you force more small, local decisions without global context and then a few "aggregations" on top.
Accidentally rediscovered MapReduce again! 😅
I've been using this pattern to "specialize" Codex for vaguely defined tasks like classification, filtering, soft sorting, ...
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Been using Codex CLI for some tasks like tagging and entity extraction.
Turns out tasks get way easier when you force more small, local decisions without global context and then a few "aggregations" on top.
Accidentally rediscovered MapReduce again! 😅
Turns out tasks get way easier when you force more small, local decisions without global context and then a few "aggregations" on top.
Accidentally rediscovered MapReduce again! 😅
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the two types of organizations: spreadsheets and cults
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
the two types of organizations: spreadsheets and cults
Awesome job with this new series @jed.co! Love the topics and conversations.
🎙️Get ready for our inaugural podcast! Join us on Sept 30 at 11am PT with host @jed.co and guest @dbreunig.bsky.social for an in-depth conversation about the data products that fueled #AI’s rapid advancement and why they’ve reached their limits #LLM
Tune in on YouTube Live: greatdataproducts.com
Tune in on YouTube Live: greatdataproducts.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Awesome job with this new series @jed.co! Love the topics and conversations.
I've been using this pattern to "specialize" Codex for vaguely defined tasks like classification, filtering, soft sorting, ...
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I've been using this pattern to "specialize" Codex for vaguely defined tasks like classification, filtering, soft sorting, ...
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
davidgasquez.com/specializing...
Made more than 10,000 invocations so far (reusing my ChatGPT subsciption) and am really happy with the pattern!
I've been curating some "Agentic Coding" tips and tricks for a while. Check them out if you're into that!
davidgasquez.com/handbook/art...
davidgasquez.com/handbook/art...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've been curating some "Agentic Coding" tips and tricks for a while. Check them out if you're into that!
davidgasquez.com/handbook/art...
davidgasquez.com/handbook/art...
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I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/p...
Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once—firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in …
simonwillison.net
October 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once - here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/p...
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When you try to predict about the impact of AI tools on software engineering - a great analogy I heard from @simonwillison.net is to look at the impact of smartphones (+ the amazing cameras they have) on filmmaking.
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
When you try to predict about the impact of AI tools on software engineering - a great analogy I heard from @simonwillison.net is to look at the impact of smartphones (+ the amazing cameras they have) on filmmaking.
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?
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I personally see collapse as an inevitability for every individual institution. Nothing lasts forever. The smart way to build systems is to enable reforms so that they can adjust to reality without destroying what works in the process.
This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky
This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky
April 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I personally see collapse as an inevitability for every individual institution. Nothing lasts forever. The smart way to build systems is to enable reforms so that they can adjust to reality without destroying what works in the process.
This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky
This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky
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if only there were a decentralized, immutable, and versioned way to fix this!
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
if only there were a decentralized, immutable, and versioned way to fix this!
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I wrote up some thoughts about why we’re seeing a gap in AI tool use among different types of developers
narphorium.com/blog/top-dow...
1/4
narphorium.com/blog/top-dow...
1/4
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Development | Shawn Simister
Why do AI tools work for some developers but not others?
narphorium.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I wrote up some thoughts about why we’re seeing a gap in AI tool use among different types of developers
narphorium.com/blog/top-dow...
1/4
narphorium.com/blog/top-dow...
1/4
Is there a name for the pattern where you try building the same thing (feature, project, ...) a bunch of times with different agents to get a sense of the implementation design space?
I usually run things at least 2 or 3 times until I "feel" what is the way I want it to be built.
I usually run things at least 2 or 3 times until I "feel" what is the way I want it to be built.
September 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Is there a name for the pattern where you try building the same thing (feature, project, ...) a bunch of times with different agents to get a sense of the implementation design space?
I usually run things at least 2 or 3 times until I "feel" what is the way I want it to be built.
I usually run things at least 2 or 3 times until I "feel" what is the way I want it to be built.
Both Evidence and Observable Framework seem to be slowing down in development.
- github.com/observablehq...
- github.com/evidence-dev...
Not sure why. Anyone has any context or ideas?
- github.com/observablehq...
- github.com/evidence-dev...
Not sure why. Anyone has any context or ideas?
August 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Both Evidence and Observable Framework seem to be slowing down in development.
- github.com/observablehq...
- github.com/evidence-dev...
Not sure why. Anyone has any context or ideas?
- github.com/observablehq...
- github.com/evidence-dev...
Not sure why. Anyone has any context or ideas?
August 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Spent some time refining the approach and benchmarking it. Just published a blog post about the core idea.
Can a bunch of LLM Agents be used to rank an arbitrary set of items in a consistent way? 🤖
davidgasquez.com/ranking-with...
Can a bunch of LLM Agents be used to rank an arbitrary set of items in a consistent way? 🤖
davidgasquez.com/ranking-with...
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Spent some time refining the approach and benchmarking it. Just published a blog post about the core idea.
Can a bunch of LLM Agents be used to rank an arbitrary set of items in a consistent way? 🤖
davidgasquez.com/ranking-with...
Can a bunch of LLM Agents be used to rank an arbitrary set of items in a consistent way? 🤖
davidgasquez.com/ranking-with...
Wrote a post about a small pattern I've been using for a while. Replacing chunks of bash scripts with `llm` or inline Claude Code calls.
For example, for data cleaning/structuring.
davidgasquez.com/scrappy-data...
For example, for data cleaning/structuring.
davidgasquez.com/scrappy-data...
While working on a small analysis over highly unstructed data at work, I came up with a very hacky but effective and cheap way to clean and process messy data. There is almost no code involved. The main downside is that requires a Claude Code subscription for it to be cost effective!
davidgasquez.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Wrote a post about a small pattern I've been using for a while. Replacing chunks of bash scripts with `llm` or inline Claude Code calls.
For example, for data cleaning/structuring.
davidgasquez.com/scrappy-data...
For example, for data cleaning/structuring.
davidgasquez.com/scrappy-data...
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usually the baseline is “nothing” so the right heuristic is usually not “is it ideal” but rather “is it better than nothing?”
July 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
usually the baseline is “nothing” so the right heuristic is usually not “is it ideal” but rather “is it better than nothing?”