GitHub - amilich/isometric-city: IsoCity: City building simulation game. IsoCity: City building simulation game. Contribute to amilich/isometric-city development by creating an account on GitHub.

So cool to see what people are vibe coding in the game space these days github.com/amilich/isom...

Modeling Semantics: How Data Models and Ontologies Connect to Build Your Semantic Foundations Ontology vs. Conceptual Data Modeling, Implementation of Semantic Foundations, and Using Agents in the Right Places for Enrichment

An interesting approach: the organizational semantics diagram drive some interest questions on AI enablement medium.com/@community_m...

The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata By Celina Amados

Very good points made on treating data like code netflixtechblog.medium.com/the-data-can...

How Will the Spatial Web Transform the Physical World? The Spatial Web's HSML and HSTP standards offer a new way for autonomous vehicles to communicate and coordinate in real-time.

A very cool development in web standards that makes my geo-nerd senses tingle spectrum.ieee.org/spatial-web-...

50-State Comparison: State Data Dictionaries and Manuals States often publish data dictionaries or manuals that showcase which data elements their systems collect. This resource links to every public

I would love to see more work on consolidation of data models within education, but I'm also keeping my expectations extremely reasonable www.ecs.org/50-state-com...

Nice: I'll give it a try! Thanks!

GitHub - Maxteabag/sqlit: A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL, SQLite, Turso and more. A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL, SQLite, Turso and more. - Maxteabag/sqlit

Absolutely love this concept github.com/Maxteabag/sq...

GitHub - freelawproject/x-ray: A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction - freelawproject/x-ray

I think I've pointed this out before, but recently came across this again: such a good tool for you PDF data engineering pipelines github.com/freelawproje...

AI’s trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs - Foundation Capital By building context graphs from decision traces, AI agent startups are capturing the “why” behind the “what” - and gaining a structural advantage in shaping what comes next. Continue reading

I've been working around context graphs for years, but I like the specific idea of "decision traces" bundling up the axiomatic baggage of data lineage foundationcapital.com/context-grap...

What is fenic? - fenic, by typedef

Neat tool for simplified context engineering with your data docs.fenic.ai/latest/

A Diary of a Data Engineer You ingest data. You model it. You transform it. You serve it. Someone asks for a change. Everything breaks. You rebuild. This is the loop. It was the loop in 2005 with SSIS and star schemas. It’s…

A very good rundown on the current state of affairs handled by data engineers www.ssp.sh/blog/diary-o...

Bioresorbable RFID capsule for assessing medication adherence - Nature Communications Medication non-adherence represents a healthcare challenge, generating over $100 billion in additional costs annually in the USA. Here, the authors developed a resorbable and ingestible system…

As I get older, I did not account for taking my radio pills www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. Data Centers Are Set to Dominate the Global Landscape The U.S. is set to dominate the global data center landscape, but can the power grid handle the surge?

Interesting year for data centers and their impact on economies spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...

GitHub - MathWorks-Teaching-Resources/Computational-Fluid-Dynamics: This curriculum module introduces foundational concepts for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, including methods for interface advection and fluid-structure-interaction. This curriculum module introduces foundational concepts for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, including methods for interface advection and fluid-structure-interaction. - MathWorks-Teaching-Reso...

I love researching fluid dynamics, but I need to find a Python alternative to this (maybe FluidDyn?) github.com/MathWorks-Te...

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 This year saw new AI models, transformative products and new breakthroughs in science and robotics.

A good run down of Google's 2025 AI works blog.google/technology/a...

DEW - The Year in Review 2025 From Digital Plumbers to Architects of Intelligence: The 7 Paradigm Shifts That Defined 2025

In my opinion, zero-copy is the challenge to solve moving forward www.dataengineeringweekly.com/p/dew-the-ye...

Very good points in a space of constantly evolving data formats increasingly based on practical AI use cases db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...

Opinionated Data Platforms vs. Open-Source: The Chef’s Choice for Your Data Platform With the recent consolidation in the area of Modern Data Stack, the question arises: are open data stacks, a more flexible but labor-intensive way of building data platforms, out of fashion? Are we…

I recently started working on alternative architectures and this is a great set of considerations www.ssp.sh/blog/omakase...

Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon

Very verbose, but a lot of truth in this article eugeneyan.com/writing/prin...

Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test Discover how Grab's Coban Platform revolutionizes real-time data quality monitoring for Kafka streams. Learn how syntactic and semantic tests empower stream users to ensure reliable data, prevent…

Love it: semantics & data contracts for data quality... such a great approach engineering.grab.com/real-time-da...

Beyond Single Agents: How DoorDash is building a collaborative AI ecosystem  - DoorDash DoorDash builds an internal agentic AI platform, evolving from deterministic workflows to dynamic multi-agent AI swarms for complex data analysis.

I agree "guardrails and provenance are non-negotiable features" careersatdoordash.com/blog/beyond-...

Nvidia Drops First Open AI Model for Self-Driving Cars Alpamayo-R1 brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles as Nvidia doubles down on physical AI

Really looking forward to seeing what is build with this model www.techbuzz.ai/articles/nvi...

Very cool concept, but I'll have to play a bit more with this AI tool benodiwal.github.io/pg_ai_query/

GitHub - phyver/GameShell: a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell - phyver/GameShell

This would have been a great way to learn bash back in the day github.com/phyver/GameS...

Manim: Create Mathematical Animations Like 3Blue1Brown Using Python Learn how to create beautiful mathematical animations like 3Blue1Brown using Manim, a Python library for explanatory math videos and visualizations.

So cool: I need a reason to use this codecut.ai/manim-mathem...

The Dark Data Tax: How Hoarding is Poisoning Your AI Storage is cheap. Attention is finite. Hallucinations are expensive. It’s time to stop building Data Lakes and start managing Data Metabolism

I hate the idea of more jargon, but "data obesity" and "data metabolism" are very useful concepts for advancing better data discussions for AI www.dataengineeringweekly.com/p/the-dark-d...

GitHub - maplibre/martin: Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling. Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling. - maplibre/martin

Sweet! I'll have to try this out soon github.com/maplibre/mar...

Boredom is the New Luxury Why people are ditching algorithms for old iPods, typewriters, and books. Explore the shift toward single-use devices, boredom, and true ownership.

Couldn't agree more: one of the reasons I love riding my motorcycle www.ssp.sh/blog/owning-...

GitHub - allmonday/fastapi-voyager: "see" your data "see" your data. Contribute to allmonday/fastapi-voyager development by creating an account on GitHub.

Very neat tool for FastAPI github.com/allmonday/fa...

Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First Large Language Model (LLM) agents, acting on their users' behalf to manipulate and analyze data, are likely to become the dominant workload for data systems in the future. When working with data,…

An increasingly important read for data professionals going into 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00997