cd /news/developer-tools/what-s-everybody-working-on-november… · home › topics › developer-tools › article
[ARTICLE · art-162705] src=ziggit.dev ↗ pub= topic=developer-tools verified=true sentiment=↑ positive

What's everybody working on (November edition)

Developer chicagobuss released version 0.5.1 of zpq, a new Parquet engine, on GitHub, following the 0.5.0 release shared in late October. The release notes and an accompanying blog post describe what the author calls "absolutely incredible" performance, with documentation built with heavy LLM assistance but verified manually.

read1 min views2 publishedNov 2, 2026

I already shared this at the end of October when it was at version 0.5.0, but now that my new Parquet engine zpq has hit 0.5.1 the performance is absolutely incredible:

github and the hand-written blog post Some favorite links from the doc site (created with heavy LLM-assistance, but still all verified manually):

Happy to answer any questions!

source & further reading
ziggit.dev — original article Kiln in Zig - one frozen wire format, eleven from-scratch codecs `dabeob`: a simple TUI lib for Zig A fast Wayland compositor in Zig with an integrated DE, custom scene graph and 100+ IPC commands we've been developing
── more in #developer-tools 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @zpq 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
→ Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host ✓
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/what-s-everybody-wor…] indexed:0 read:1min 2026-11-02 · —