Froggy

Omg THATS who he’s been reminding me of this whole time 🤦‍♀️

The trick is accepting that knowing All The Things is impossible.

The good news is, most shiny new things in the data world are just old concepts wrapped up in a new UI. Along with a fresh set of obligatory jargon terms.
#databs

The Overshadowed Bill Poised to Rewrite New Zealand’s Legal System While Attention is Fixed on the Treaty Principles Bill, Another Bill Threatens Sweeping Change

They’re playing the long game; if they win the point once, we all lose.

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#nzpol

Froggy: The Data Diving Dog Lady Who Ponders the Chaos of JSON and Life As a delightful mix of data geekery and canine affection, Froggy's posts leap between tech humor and existential meanderings.

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dbt job: "Can't parse a JSON blob, I'm out."

me: *looks for a needle in the 100M-row haystack*

me: "Aha! This looks fine? Guess I'll paste it in a text editor to double check."

text editor: "Uh, boss"

me: "Is that...is that a tiny red 'BS'?"

BS broke my data. I can't make this shit up.
#dataBS

Thought my eyes were just getting old 😅 Gotten to a point where if I’m night driving on the open road, I’ll just find a truck to sit behind.

lol A subtle reminder that it could be worse… it could be Trump.

1000% yes

🫂

How?

Book cover. John Barnes, Kaleidoscope century

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
#20daybookchallenge

Yeah I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity

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Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Yggörf:
A Heinrich maneuver friendly chair.

🤣🤣🤣

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It's not just "what are they doing with our data?" or "what could they do?"

It's also: "even if compelled to delete our data, would they know how?"

(How many companies maintain the proper data governance/documentation/discipline to support a deletion order? Very few, I'd wager.)

- Amelie
- Speak

Destiny Interrupted, Tamim Ansary book cover

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Darwin’s Radio book cover

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Book cover of Octavia Butler’s Kindred

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When you’re the data engineer, waiting for the Cloud Admin to restore the permissions you need to fix the pipeline.

The Long Earth?

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Where 1=1

👋 come on over to #ToitūTeTiriti. Lots of cool Australasian peeps hanging out there today.

Me three. Clearly your question is the sole reason for the current influx of new blsky users 😅

I second that (pdf) motion

YouTube ‘Kelpie backing sheep’. That’s all. You’re welcome 😃