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Geek and nerd. Wrote my first computer program in 1970. Progressive activist.

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  1. I'm on the TGV from Lille to Paris. Why can't we have trains like this in the United States?

  2. YottaDB r2.06 provides a timely fix to a bug in r2.04, in which the compiler generates incorrect code for an unusual code pattern. We recommend that you use r2.06 instead of r2.04. gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/re

  3. We welcome Jordan Lenchitz to the YottaDB blog with his post YottaDB as a Creative Platform: Experimental Video Art at Scale (yottadb.com/yottadb-as-a-creat). It is truly a unique use of our software, one that we had never imagined. Thank you very much, and congratulations, Jordan!

  4. YottaDB r2.04 is released and the documentation has been updated. Use the ydbinstall.sh script (download.yottadb.com/ydbinstal) or download a binary distribution from gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/re

  5. yottadb.com/acid-transaction-d discusses how YottaDB delivers Durability at scale for ACID transactions. Please send us your questions and comments, and let us know about topics you would like discussed in future blog posts.

  6. The second of our two-part blog post on why ACID transactions are hard to scale, and how YottaDB does the hard work for you. is at yottadb.com/acid-transactions-
    Please send us your questions and comments.

  7. The second of our two-part blog post on why ACID transactions are hard to scale, and how YottaDB does the hard work for you. is at yottadb.com/acid-transactions-
    Please send us your questions and comments.

  8. I was a guest this week on the FLOSS Weekly podcast (hackaday.com/2025/12/10/floss-). The host, Jonathan Bennett, and I had an enjoyable discussion about YottaDB. @FLOSS_Weekly

  9. The is asking for public input on (irs.gov/newsroom/irs-asks-for-). Note that the survey is not unbiased, and is written to bias responses in favor of companies that offer tax filing services. But you can answer it to opine that you want a free service offered by the IRS.

  10. The YottaDB code base now has functionality to encode and decode local and global variable (sub)trees as strings. It uses the popular library; packages are available for common Linux distributions. The functionality is currently documented in a Draft Release Note (gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/is), and will be part of the upcoming r2.04 release. If you care to try it, you will need to build YottaDB from source.

  11. At the rally in , . I estimate a crowd of a few thousand people on both sides of High Street for several blocks.

  12. Kurt Le Breton is a YottaDB user from Australia. His first guest blog post, titled “Bid Wars,” that was triggered by a conversation that he had with ChatGPT about YottaDB, is at yottadb.com/bid-wars/

  13. The code for YottaDB to optionally use GNU is merged into the YottaDB master branch. To enable, export ydb_readline=1 . Details at gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/is. To use it:

    - Build the code at gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB or
    - use the Docker container yottadb.com/product/get-started

  14. While we have incrementally improved direct mode editing capabilities over the years, it always irked me a bit that had better line editing capabilities, and importantly, history recall from prior sessions. We finally implemented an option for direct mode to use . If you care to try it, please: