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Peter Hoffmann
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Peter Hoffmann's personal blog at peter-hoffmann.com covers programming and data. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Peter Hoffmann's blog about Python, data engineering, maps and mountains, from Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Sorry, I prefer vim. "Refresh Browser on save with inotify and xdotool" http://peter-hoffmann.com/2010/refresh-browser-on-save-with-...
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on “Brackets, a code editor”Submitted CoffeeScript Roundup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs much as I love to tout the benefits of duckdb, the ability to only pull down the columns that you need is not really functionality that is enabled by or exclusive to duckdb. It really has to do with the parquet file format. And it gets even more powerful than just being able to download specific columns. To a certain degree, you can also limit rows at the same time. http://peter-hoffmann.com/2020/understand-predi…
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on “Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB”Submitted Convert the Himalayan Database to SQLite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peter Hoffmann: Exploring Mountain Huts with Sparql and Wikidata as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Python Queue With Redis as a story · 1 points
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