Using JavaScript to make better AI

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  Icebird v0.8.0 now supports Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog for accessing apache iceberg tables from JS environments

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  If you’ve got multimodal datasets, Claude Code on terminal isn’t going to work — but we’ve got you. We’re excited to be at GTC announcing multimodal support in Hyperparam: images, audio and geospatial data. Drop a dataset on Hyperparam to check it out.

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  Hyparquet-writer v0.12.3 with a 10%+ speed increase! JS Optimization Tip: Always prefer Uint8Array over ArrayBuffer when you can. ArrayBuffer.slice makes a copy, Uint8Array can slice for free.

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  Apache Parquet added an Implementation Status page for parquet clients. But Hyparquet had a shameful red ❌ on Variant Encoding. But JavaScript deserves first-class Parquet support! So I stayed up late, and now Hyparquet 1.24.0 has full Variant support ✅ Peer pressure works!

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  Squirreling is a browser-native SQL engine built for interactive data exploration with async execution, streaming results, and no traditional backend. Kenny wrote about why existing tools struggle with this workflow, explains his thought process behind Squirreling, and gives