1st January 2023
TIL
Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground
— Via [this comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197637) on Hacker News I started exploring the [ClickHouse Playground](https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/getting-started/playground/). It's really cool, and among other things it allows CORS-enabled API hits that can query a decade of history from the GitHub events archive in less than a second.
Recent articles
- Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog - 20th February 2026
- Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat - 17th February 2026
- Deep Blue - 15th February 2026