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Have you ever signed up for a meetup talk to force yourself to learn a new tool, then run out of time? Couldn’t be me. I definitely didn’t just do that.

Anyways uv is cool

06.12.2024 16:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ah that’s fair. Come to the dark side docs.astral.sh/uv/#publishi...

23.11.2024 20:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully.

Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?”

Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

23.11.2024 14:30 👍 3163 🔁 478 💬 112 📌 83
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Me to dbt

23.11.2024 03:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Modern data stack in a sheet?

21.11.2024 12:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I actively avoided playing it for 9 years knowing it would suck me in. It got me in the end

18.11.2024 03:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I relapsed (re-downloaded Factorio) and it’s ruining my life (I’m having a great time)

17.11.2024 21:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I regret to inform you the Mark Zuckerberg acoustic version of Get Low goes at least a little hard

14.11.2024 01:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I regret to inform you the Mark Zuckerberg acoustic version of Get Low goes at least a little hard

14.11.2024 01:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Who’s building the federated docs app?

(tbf I guess that’s what obsidian is but who’s using that for docs)

08.11.2024 14:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

SQL loses the popular vote but wins the electoral college every time

09.11.2024 19:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a trick to get me to self-reflect, and I won’t fall for it

08.11.2024 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who’s building the federated docs app?

(tbf I guess that’s what obsidian is but who’s using that for docs)

08.11.2024 14:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Are you telling me a data made this actionable insight?

08.11.2024 13:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

back to regularly scheduled data posting

08.11.2024 13:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is MotherDuck propaganda!

But yeah you’re not wrong. I think it comes down to the skill sets of engineers right now. A good engineer can use terraform to stand up the whole data stack and build CI/CD with gh actions.

I imagine we’ll see the “smaller data revolution” soon enough with DuckDB.

01.11.2024 12:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Three apps that made me more productive this year Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive

Casey Newton wrote a bit about using it. He suggested connecting it to more than just articles/RSS and using the Ghostreader function. I haven’t taken the time to set it up yet but it’s on my to do list

www.platformer.news/ai-productiv...

01.11.2024 12:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can we please stay here longer. My feed is data people and I’d prefer that over Leon’s Twitter. I’m only there to see the election results.

01.11.2024 03:18 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Bluesky is discriminating against left-handed people! (I keep hitting the “scroll-to-top” button when I’m scrolling on mobile :( )

01.11.2024 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh both look promising! Yeah the goal is note-taking away from my computer

30.10.2024 15:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What’s the best speech-to-text dictation app on iOS? I hear about apps like BetterDictation on macOS but is there anything as good for mobile?

30.10.2024 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Total engagement over my last 100 posts with a single query :)

30.10.2024 10:10 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 3

I think @vickiboykis.com was the person in my Twitter feed to kick off an avalanche of data/ML/data science people coming to bsky. I’m loving all the new activity going on here

29.10.2024 19:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publishing packages | uv

I think uv offers a full replacement for poetry docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/pu...

I still need to dig into this aspect of uv more to understand. I’m planning a blog post showing how it replaces the various Python package/project management tools

29.10.2024 19:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hi Mariah! 👋

29.10.2024 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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hi to all old friends from twitter!

i want to show you this thing: atproto-browser.vercel.app. put your bluesky handle in it and explore :)

this should give you some intuition about how this place works under the hood. happy to answer any questions about it!

29.10.2024 12:32 👍 821 🔁 169 💬 48 📌 28

Here’s a useful post from @danabra.mov that helped me understand 🦋 more bsky.app/profile/dana...

29.10.2024 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s essentially an attempt to recreate the metric.calculate() function from earlier versions of dbt

29.10.2024 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to query and materialize your semantic layer metrics directly from your dbt models tl;dr materialize metrics directly inside your dbt models using the dbt-metric-utils Python package. This mostly brings back the…

Has anyone seen cool things built on top of the dbt semantic layer yet? This package seems interesting medium.com/@dj.lemkes/h...

29.10.2024 13:25 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0