While not related to the topic exactly, the blur under the translucent header was so distracting I had trouble reading the article. Usually I can overlook stuff like this; I can't explain why it bothered me so much.
the problem really is that if you scroll you have enough variation between images and text it makes the translucent header function as a sort of blink effect, calling your attention away from what you're trying to read which is probably right up by where the header is blinking.
The main selling point of the open table formats is to decouple the data from query engines.
Kinda off-topic but I love the quality of images used in this article. Even memes are HD. Quite rare as people tend to use whatever meme creator provides - super-pixelated, low-quality source image with text slapped on top.
Isn't that almost what we got with DuckDB + DuckLake?