24th August 2026
Research
Drilldown dashboard cubes over HTTP range requests
— A purpose-built binary cube format, DCB1/DCB2, can replace Parquet plus Hyparquet for static drilldown dashboards served through HTTP range requests. Its dependency-free JavaScript reader uses dictionary-encoded fixed-width rows and sparse indexes to answer each interaction with an in-memory binary search and one range request; DCB2 adds native browser deflate compression via `DecompressionStream`.
Recent articles
- Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work - 12th September 2026
- OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May - 12th September 2026
- Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem - 8th September 2026