Today I Learned on Lorbic

Wireless ADB When Your Network Fights You

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0530

Wireless ADB keeps timing out if you run a VPN or something like Cloudflare WARP. The issue is that these tools route all traffic through a tunnel and block direct peer-to-peer connections on your local network.

The fix is a one-time USB handshake to tell the device to listen on TCP before you go wireless.

Step 1: USB handshake

Connect your device via USB (USB debugging must be on). Then run:

A Deep Dive into Apache Parquet with ClickHouse

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:41:00 +0000

TIL how ClickHouse works with Parquet beyond just reading files.

Part 1: https://clickhouse.com/blog/apache-parquet-clickhouse-local-querying-writing You can query and even write Parquet files directly using ClickHouse, without fully importing them first. This changes how you think about data movement and storage.

Part 2: https://clickhouse.com/blog/apache-parquet-clickhouse-local-querying-writing-internals-row-groups Row groups are the basic units inside Parquet. Performance depends a lot on how data is divided into these groups, affecting how much data gets read, how well it compresses, and how efficiently queries run.

Typography in ten minutes

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:48:00 +0000

This blog teaches almost all about typography. Read more: https://practicaltypography.com/

What is a Mutex?

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:18:00 +0000

Our Journey to 35K+ GitHub Stars: The Real Story of Building Milvus from Scratch (2025)

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:52:00 +0000

Today I learned that building a successful open-source project like Milvus, which became a leading vector database, involved starting from scratch due to a lack of suitable existing solutions, making the difficult decision to completely rewrite the core system (Milvus 2.0) for better scalability and cloud-nativity, and continuously engaging with the community to evolve the product. It also highlighted that the company behind Milvus, Zilliz, focuses on the “unglamorous” but critical aspects like performance, security, and global support, and that they are now working on a “Vector Data Lake” to handle massive, less frequently accessed vector data more cost-effectively. Small Notes for the Blog

What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify (2023)

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:52:00 +0000

What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify (2023)

Vector Search with ClickHouse - Part 1

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:09:00 +0000

Vector search using clickhouse.

Vector Search with ClickHouse - Part 2

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:30:00 +0000

Learn about how to build vector database with ClickHouse.