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Co-Founder / CTO @spiraldb

London, England
Joined February 2021
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
4 months
🚀.
@SpiralDB
Spiral
4 months
Checkout our latest post by @andreweduffy about bridging our Rust code to Java to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries 🏎️.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
5 months
Slightly late to the party here, but could the billion dollar #ErasTour really not figure out how to center a digital clock…
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
7 months
We can't be the only ones who compete with `cargo clean`
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
7 months
I bet there aren't any other file formats that come with a slick terminal explorer 😎
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Nicholas Gates
10 months
And so it begins… a shame to see Iceberg caving in to DataBricks on technical design decisions whose only benefit is better compatibility with Delta.
@ananthdurai
Ananth Packkildurai
1 year
It will be interesting to see what the Apache Iceberg community thinks about merging its format with Delta Lake instead of innovating independently.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
10 months
They said no one would get my @olivianj reference.
@SpiralDB
Spiral
10 months
New blog post from CTO @ngates_ about the important decision to separate logical and physical types in the Vortex file format.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
1 year
Fsst & Furious.
@SpiralDB
Spiral
1 year
In our next post, @andreweduffy writes about state-of-the-art string compression with FSST and #Rust 🦀.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
1 year
After a decade of fighting spell checkers at work, I have chosen this Fourth of July weekend to finally surrender 🇺🇸
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Nicholas Gates
1 year
It's kind of ridiculous that OIDC authentication is not more widespread. PyPi leading the way. If I have to copy one more god token. .
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
1 year
Does no one except @auth0 support OAuth 2.0 Device Auth Flow?. I've checked @stytchauth, @WorkOS, @FronteggForSaaS, @HeyKinde, @supabase . Thinking of creating a CloudFlare worker to MITM this. .
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Nicholas Gates
1 year
RT @spiraldb: Check out our inaugural blog post by @ngates_ describing the FastLanes compression layout and how you too can decode >100 bi….
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spiraldb.com
Deep dives and design decisions
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
1 year
🤣.
@ananthdurai
Ananth Packkildurai
1 year
It will be interesting to see what the Apache Iceberg community thinks about merging its format with Delta Lake instead of innovating independently.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
2 years
TIL ISO 3103.
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Nicholas Gates
2 years
When you need two USB-C ports on your MacBook and don’t want to lose your YubiKey…
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Nicholas Gates
2 years
Time for England to declare I reckon.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
2 years
Quick! Grab your real estate!.
@pypi
Python Package Index
2 years
Today, we are rolling out the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability, while simultaneously giving our users one of our most requested features: organization accounts.
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@ngates_
Nicholas Gates
2 years
This is great! More tools should offer support for OIDC tokens and stop asking me to generate API tokens with no expiry 👀.
@pypi
Python Package Index
2 years
Starting today, PyPI package maintainers can adopt a new, more secure publishing method that does not require long-lived passwords or API tokens to be shared with external systems.
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