Weeknotes 2026.27

Working trips are usually very time-consuming. This week we presented a talk at a conference in Innsbruck, and we needed about two days only for traveling.

On Wednesday, it took a 6-hour train ride and some creepy old white men to get to Innsbruck. For me, it was the first time to take a Interregio-train. It is like a "better" Cityjet and there is only a limited number of seats that can be reserved. Therefore, all travellers with reservation sit more or less next to each other.

Next to us were two older men in their 70s and a young woman in their 20s. One of the guys was a little bit invasive and asked if he could take a picture of the young woman. As a memory. Before I could intervene, his friend told him that it is not a good idea.

The conference itself was all about AI and how it will change the world. At least I met some quite interesting people and had a nice conference dinner.

Tour de France

Yesterday was the Grands Départs of the annual Tour de France. The first stage started with a team time trial and a victory of Jonas Vingegaard.

DuckDB

Kyle Cheung has written about the DuckDB internals.

DuckDB Internals: Why is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

ClickHouse

Mad Duggan has written why he thinks Clickhouse is winning the observability race. His point is that every observabiity stack easily can handle 1 TB of data a day. And he argues that the more data is collected, the more the architecture of ClickHouse shines.

Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

Ecosia

Ecosia now offers an AI-free search experience. At least as an optional feature.

You can now choose AI-free search

Innsbruck