1. japborst Dec 28, 2025 parent

   I can see that. Pydantic is great but relatively slow (which matters on edge devices) and can be bloated.

   The fact that all your projects use Pydantic makes it an easy starting point and created standardisation - of course.

   Nevertheless, I can definitely see some use-cases for lightweight JSON-serialisation without bringing in Pydantic. Dataclasses are great, but lack proper json handling.

2. japborst Dec 28, 2025 parent

   Cool!

   I wonder if this isn't toooo much magic. How does this scale beyond simple use-cases? I fear one might hit a wall at 80%, where the first part is super easy indeed but not customizable enough to get to 100% of all use-cases.

3. japborst Dec 23, 2025 parent

   RIP Popcorn Time. It was fucking amazing.
4. japborst Dec 6, 2025 parent

   Yeah, I think the Spring folk typically like running ORMs and don't want to get their hands dirty on SQL.

   Whereas the Python folk are often used to running SQL manually, so like less of the magic?

5. japborst Nov 30, 2025 parent

   Love this! Finally something happening in this space. dbeaver was the best, but it's so so ugly and old. I love Datagrip, but no free version.

   Please have good formatting of SQL queries - like Datagrip. Very little open source SQL formatters out there, so might require something custom.

   And very much waiting for Snowflake support (incl. OAuth)

6. japborst Nov 30, 2025 parent

   What tech are you running under the hood for this? Is this similar to entity detection using BERT?
7. japborst Nov 30, 2025 parent

   I like this!

   Overall love the DX with Claude Code in my vscode (kinda hate all the CLI only approaches the rest have), but would be great to still utilize other models.

8. japborst Nov 30, 2025 parent

   Impressive speed performance! And love the magic, like wiring services and repos.

   Not super sure about the magical SQL queries OOTB, but that might be a preference thing.

   Lots of docs too, great job!

   (This also triggered a question in me: should Astral also support/write a web framework?)

9. 2 points Jun 3, 2025

   Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling a Machine Learning powerhouse

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10. japborst May 15, 2025 parent

    How do you see this compare to things like Amazon Bedrock, where it runs OSS in my own infra?
11. 2 points Oct 13, 2022

    Picnic Open-Sources Error Prone Support

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12. japborst Oct 6, 2022 parent

    Exactly! The huge benefit is that you're just writing before/after Java code, so not regex or other complex AST code.
13. 6 points Oct 6, 2022

    Picnic loves Error Prone: producing high-quality and consistent Java code

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14. japborst Sep 4, 2022 parent

    For an avid Excel/GSheets user and programmer, this is amazing! When is a GSheets version coming ;-)

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