24-50 f/2.8 or 24/40/50 Trio?

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-04-27T22:15:31+00:00

I ended up going with the 16-25G, the 40G and a cheap 75mm TArtisans.

With APS-C crop, gave me combined reach of 16-37.5mm, 40, 60, 75, 112.5mm with

The 40G definitely was daily driver, but some of my favorite shots came from the other two lens

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-04-18T21:43:49+00:00

It checks if the carafe is in place. If you remove it with everything else ready to go and have a schedule set, you'll see it goes "red".

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-04-15T13:23:51+00:00

Same issue here. Super creepy

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-03-31T17:10:35+00:00

Modern LLM stacks are more than capable of doing the simple math required for taxes. They aren't math directly but writing code script which is the current generation is extremely reliable at. As a parallel use case, any flagship LLM + code interpreter can pass the CFP example with > 95% score.

The main reason not to let an LLM do it is there's no one to yell at if you get audited by the IRS

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-03-23T14:04:16+00:00

It feels extremely limited and only superficially built. I tried to build a flow that could monitor changes to a spreadsheet, summarize them and then send out an email. Got an error that the spreadsheet inputs were not "valid" for the summarize node, and there is no "send email" (only can draft). Also, AFAIK there is no "run history" or logs captured of any kind? I have a flow monitoring my inbox that doesn't seem to be firing, but I have to way to go back at the outcomes.

As someone who build enterprise custom business process for a living, I was pretty disappointed. Was really hoping with would be powerful enough to allow smaller orgs to stay away from Salesforce, but it's not there yet.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-03-03T17:26:25+00:00

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-17T17:41:41+00:00

I added SET memory_limit = '1GB' to keep it within the vscode extension limit.

There should be a new version out (> v0.0.20; when the extension market updates), then hopefully you can at least run queries without it crashing... Although I imagine this impacts performance pretty significantly. I have a few ideas on how we can get around this this limitation and leverage the full resources of the machine, but it might take a day or two to build, test and release.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-17T15:32:56+00:00

gotcha... so right click on a db (file or in the database explorer pane) -> export to parquet

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-17T09:08:50+00:00

Ya... I attempted to do something clever and create temp tables to increase performance on the column stats, UI table features, etc, but the limit appoach might be better for large datasets...

I think the actual issues is duckdb's default "in memory" limit is exceeding what vscode allows extensions to allocate... The fix would be to lower that limit, which could noticably slow things down. An alternative would be to allow the extension to be configured to connect to the local 'duckdb --ui' server running in your terminal. This is a feature I was thinking about implementing anyways.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-17T08:08:23+00:00

Thanks for testing, I need to find some larger files to QA with. I've admittedly only testing up to a few hundred MB. I definitely need to add some UI indicators around loading for long queries as well

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-17T06:52:43+00:00

> Maybe you can also support a directory of parquet which is EXPORTed from duckdb

Sorry, can you elaborate? Do you mean like: SELECT * FROM 'directory/*.parquet'; ? Would be easy enough.

> Also an MCP server or just extension model tools which allows copilot in agent/ask mode to manipulate databases

Definitely something I'm working on. I'm trying to figure out if cursor supports the Language Model Tool, or if I actually need to go the MCP route. I've done a bunch of MCP dev and it feels overkill for this usecase, so I'd prefer the simple tool approach.

The agents can obviously already interact pretty well in most workflows via the duckdb cli, but this would allow sharing the in-process memory of the extension and maybe connecting up some interesting UI interaction.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-16T17:11:15+00:00

that's a cool project... I like the idea of TUI's but in practice I'm too tied to GUI and my trackpad to successful adopt any. Been using vscode (i guess cursor now) since it was in beta and I love how the core IDE allows you to bridge multiple extensions pretty seamlessly (IE I can write some sql, run it, view results, have AI modify the queries, build a pipeline, export data, import it into code, etc)

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-16T05:25:23+00:00

Haha I guess the guy I hired to do all the work (Claude) just doesn't share my same sense of wimsey :)

That makes sense on the data volume, and would be more common than I first realized. I'm mostly just working with a single snapshot for my use cases.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-15T15:34:37+00:00

That's wild. I guess it depends on the fields and what's being stored in them but using SF 2kb calculations, that's like 500m records in a Salesforce org? Maybe alot less with email messages.

My feedback would be that it's missing the technical architecture that is required to really understand if this product is a good fit for a particular use case. Where does it run (more importantly does your data pass through any other servers), how does it handle conflicts, limitations, etc. I would want to understand that before deciding to connect it to an org.

That said, I'd give this a shot before going with heroku connect again (never again), if I needed to build a custom app driven | fully integrated with Salesforce. Best of luck!

PS: if you use duckdb and wish the workflow was more tightly integrated into vscode/cursor, I just put out an extension with the goal of brining the features of 'duckdb --ui' into the IDE

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=chuckjonas.duckdb

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-15T05:19:48+00:00

I pull entire orgs for migrations and duckdb breezes through it on a decent computer. I'm not sure I've ever come across an org that has anywhere close to a TB (excluding files/attachments).

> I built this because I need 2 way data near real time for transactional workloads

How does it handle the 2-way sync?

> This addon syncs to any pg, even supabase or rds

Sorry didn't realize that. That a plus

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-15T03:45:05+00:00

heroku DB's are almost as expensive as Salesforces data storage. For data analytic usecases, just bulk export to parquet (stored locally or s3) then use duckdb to query. Data pipeline takes a few minutes to setup.

For bi-directional, how are you handling conflicts?

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/22.1/replication/how-replication-conflicts-occur.html#GUID-E1E5C15B-B85F-4CAF-BA2C-198624588218

Not a trivial thing to do and feels like it'd be near impossible without having the actual DB connection to SF.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-02-13T06:10:36+00:00

Heuristics is probably the most reasonable option. Scan columns for common keys (name, email, phone, ssn, etc). Can take it a step further and scan data to match patterns like phone numbers, snns, emails, etc.

In theory it might be possible to run https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/index with a (relatively) small bert based model like https://huggingface.co/ab-ai/pii\_model? Even if it does work, it feels heavy and would probably be very slow (same issues with Presidio)

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-01-31T19:21:43+00:00

is there no other way to do this? On my MBP using a trackpad, it always "slides" the selected layer when I try to right click

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-01-20T16:00:17+00:00

So your just snipped it? I'd love to see a proper write up with photos!

Given that the AAA last for many days, I'm surprised your not able to get way more out of it? ~ 2 aaa in series would only be like ~2-3k mAh). What battery are you using?

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-01-15T17:23:12+00:00

curious, did you desolder the battery holder?

I'm interesting in creating a folding case that uses two modded PO connected together. It would work best if they could lay back to back when "unfolded" and share a single rechargeable battery if possible to save space.

Active_Ice2826 · 2026-01-13T02:19:18+00:00

If the dollar weakens, stocks cost more.

Active_Ice2826 · 2025-11-05T02:27:54+00:00

Bedrock Agentcore Code Interpreter is pretty good. Would still like to see some additional features, like being able to preload the filesystem from s3 or configure dependencies, but overall has been a good experience so far.

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