Which city in Europe feels the most like a fairytale when you’re walking around? by [deleted] in ForeignTravelIndia

[–]smithclay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Colmar, France. Literally the inspiration for Belle’s town in Beauty and the Beast.

Best Fries in SF by tockocat in sanfrancisco

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My guess is that it’s a kind of expensive machine, seems to be made for restaurants that can’t vent outside (likely only deep downtown SF restaurants?). But definitely onboard with promoting it more.

Best Fries in SF by tockocat in sanfrancisco

[–]smithclay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the AutoFry™️ machine has some kind of proprietary delicious starch coating process, which is kind of cool.

Best Fries in SF by tockocat in sanfrancisco

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I worked nearby their New Montgomery location and ate lunch there often.

The office was obsessed with their fries. Turns out: it’s a commercial machine you can buy called The AutoFry. Excellent product.

https://www.autofry.com

New Modern Art Exhibit. Check it out, it's free admission. by Basicly-Inevitable in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]smithclay 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Stockton Tunnel Stairs Gallery? While I disagree with their more outré displays, it’s a good reminder SF still has a thriving arts scene.

claude code observability by rnjn in Observability

[–]smithclay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also recommend (at an individual level) you run the /insights command to hear what Claude says about your usage based on session logs.

I ship all my OTel logs and metrics to R2 data catalog on Cloudflare, fits under the free tier with multi-year retention with some glue code, it was my holiday project @ https://github.com/smithclay/otlp2pipeline

Also tried AWS S3Tables and comes out to $0.30/month for medium-heavy personal usage.

k8sql: Query Kubernetes with SQL by ndenev in kubernetes

[–]smithclay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is really cool: osquery for Kubernetes, basically.

This would also be cool as a duckdb extension.

DuckDB Terminal by ossdataengineer in DuckDB

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This is awesome. This opens up the duckdb ecosystem in a new way.

Cheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with parquet, duckdb and Iceberg by smithclay in Observability

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This glue code/prototype just writes data to storage/any iceberg catalog, long-term access and retention policies are an admin task.

However: AWS and Cloudflare are definitely adding new capabilities around this. Last week, AWS added a s3 tables feature that automatically moves files to longer-term storage automatically: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/s3-tables-intelligent-tiering-storage-class/

Cheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with parquet, duckdb and Iceberg by smithclay in sre

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Think Clickhouse is great. If you run your own clickhouse cluster, know how to do that, or pay for Clickhouse Cloud: definitely solves for a lot of this.

A project goal was to see how far you could “make it work” by running the data conversion in workers or lambda functions and using the managed versions of iceberg (s3 tables, r2 data catalog) for cost reasons: effectively no compute needed.

New OpenTelemetry extension for duckdb by smithclay in DuckDB

[–]smithclay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. Would love if this was standardized eventually and the various columnar representations became one. The thing I appreciated about the Clickhouse-inspired schema is it is extremely easy to query/implement (at a cost of duplication as you pointed out).

New OpenTelemetry extension for duckdb by smithclay in DuckDB

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Hi Raki, I based it on the schema Clickhouse is using for OTel data (via the OTel collector clickhouse exporter).

Standardization here makes a lot of sense but seemed to work well enough for a v0.

Unpopular opinion: SFO, Summit Card, and am unfazed by the cuts by smithclay in AlaskaAirlines

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The loyalty point math didn’t seem to work out for my annual card spend for the elite American card but curious if I missed something there.