We all know Tux as the Linux penguin, and those that know me, understand how much I hate Microsoft, and that my [core logo][1], as shown down the right of my blog with Windows Sucks is what I preach. Well I’ve now had this made into a logo on tee-shirts.
As part of searching for images, I’ve come across a few alternative images that I really like, Tux and the BSD demon, Tux and the loosing Windows and MSN logo. You can find more of my collected works at Tux Images
PyCon AU 2026 held in Brisbane this week was a five day event for the Python community. With specialized tracks and dedicated tutorial and engineering days there was a wide variety of content available.
Read moreI previously came across an issue in my benchmarking work where I relied on the Latency Histogram section of sysbench output. On Linux it worked fine — I generally ran my workload there, so it never mattered.
Read moreIn Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing I described datasets assembled the manual way — download, schema, load, validate, document — over hours or days per source. This post is the follow-up I promised: what changes when AI assists the same workflow, using DuckDB as the target engine and GeoNames as the first example.
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