Bryce Mecum

Hi, I’m Bryce and this is my home on the web.

I’m currently working at Columnar on Apache Arrow, mostly on ADBC, and am a member of the Apache Arrow PMC. I was previously at Voltron Data supporting enterprises on Arrow and more.

Before my time in the private sector, I was at NCEAS making software.

In my free time, I work on TreeStats and other stuff related to Asheron’s Call. I worked in wildlife and fisheries prior to software and still do.

Posts

• Using ADBC with $5 Planetscale 2025-11-15
• TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown 2023-03-31
• Reflecting on Apache Arrow in 2022 2023-02-06

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Projects

• TownCrier 2019 csharpasheronscall
  Decal plugin for Asheron's Call that sends webhooks to external services when in-game events occur.
• standardrb-action 2019 rubygithubactionsci
  GitHub Action for running Standard Ruby linter CI.
• hotline 2019 rubyhotline
  Ruby gem for the Hotline protocol. Currently supports the Tracker Client portion of the protocol.
• Overly-Detailed Asheron's Call Character Planner 2017 javascriptvueasheronscall
  Character planner for Asheron's Call.
• upriver 2015 rfisheriesstatistics
  R package for in-river migration modeling of salmon, developed for my M.S. thesis.
• TreeStats 2015 rubyasheronscall
  Character tracking for Asheron's Call. Based on the original TreeStats.
• Yukon Chinook Run Timing 2012 rfisheriesforecasting
  Collaborative forecasting of Yukon River Chinook Salmon run timing. Pre-season forecasts in April/May and daily in-season updates through mid-July.
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