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rmoff's random ramblings
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rmoff's random ramblings is a personal blog at rmoff.net about data and programming. Since 2016, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S36 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14
- Blog Writing for Developers (2023)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-07-21
- AI Smells on Medium4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-11-25
- AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
- I Try to Keep Up with the Data Tech World (A List of Data Blogs)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
- Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 20262 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
- A Love Letter to Raycast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-19
- 1BRC in SQL with DuckDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29
- Monitoring Sonos with KsqlDB, InfluxDB, and Grafana2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-22
- Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20
What Hacker News says?
There was recently this link talking about AI slop articles on medium https://rmoff.net/2025/11/25/ai-smells-on-medium/ He doesn't link many examples, but at the end he gives the example of an author pumping out +8 articles in a week across a variety of topics. https://medium.com/@ArkProtocol1 I don't spend time on medium so I don't personally know.
Comment linking /2025/11/25/ai-smells-on-medium/
on “We're losing our voice to LLMs”Submitted Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 as a story · 276 points
HN discussionAs a SQL-head, I enjoyed following along with Robin Moffatt's blog on doing the challenge with DuckDB. I got slightly slower numbers than he did (I have different hardware), but definitely in the same order of magnitude. He got 28 seconds to ingest the CSV, then 6 seconds to aggregate and calculate. Maybe 2 hours of coding, tops https://rmoff.net/2024/01/03/1%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3%EF%B8%8F-1b...
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on “One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds”Submitted Blog Writing for Developers (2023) as a story · 255 points
HN discussion"Turns out, stream processing was only really just getting started. In the last 12-18 months a veritable plethora of stream processing projects and companies have shown up, demonstrating that there is not only demand for it but also different approaches to take too." https://rmoff.net/2023/09/21/an-itch-that-just-has-to-be-scr... Feel free to check out OSS Proton: github.com/timeplus-io/proton, and let me know any d…
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on “The Plan for InfluxDB 3.0 Open Source”Submitted I am so tired of this bullshit as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring UK Environment Agency Data with DuckDB and Rill as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Smells on Medium as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted (AI) Smells on Medium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kicking the tyres on the new DuckDB UI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI will fuck you up if you're not on board as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Raycast as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Smells on Medium as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write more blog articles, not fewer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Try to Keep Up with the Data Tech World (A List of Data Blogs) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detecting and Analysing SSH Attacks with KsqlDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoupling the Data Pipeline with Kafka – A (Very) Simple Real Life Example as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating Claude's dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code isn't going to replace data engineers (yet) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interacting with Developers on Reddit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Raycast as a story · 2 points
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