E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in. But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map. My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters

Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work www.theverge.com/column/79101...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week

I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program. Ever.

Blog Writing for Developers rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b...

Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books

Orange telephone lets goooooo

Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...

Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

different day, same internal struggle

"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation

so good byteofdev.com/posts/making...

This is a banger post going into the details of JetBrains' hyper-focused single-line code completion model newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-f... (As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)

there are hot* singles** in your area*** *unexpected **items ***bagging area

TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum". E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh

Just when you thought the OTF fuss had died down and you could get on with using Iceberg (ok ok, or Delta), DuckDB goes and puts the cat (duck?) amongst the pigeons with DuckLake: rmoff.net/2025/06/02/d... #dataBS

Elias is a great presenter, and the audience is definitely vibing with him - big tone shift in the chat

It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

If you missed the live dbt Labs State of Analytics Engineering virtual event yesterday, no worries - you can catch the recording here: www.getdbt.com/2025-state-o...

Hi #DataSky 👋 The Data Angels 2025 Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups for its 4th cohort which will run from June to December 2025! If you’re interested, sign up for Data Angels and join the #mentorship-community channel where you'll find the mentorship program details and interest form!

An Apple Intelligence update where the keyboard knows I never end emails with "Thanks, hotel" and puts my actual name in instead

I've got a 16 hour layover in SF this Saturday (22nd), so I'll be heading into the city. hmu if you want to get a coffee! #databs

what are your timelines for AGI? now, what are your timelines for when a robot can cook up a chicken noodle soup from scratch using the ingredients in your fridge and the appliances in your kitchen? are they the same or different?

this is great www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

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As someone who works at an open core company similar to Preset / Superset, this post really resonates with my experience. Buying a “hosted version of an open source library” made by that libraries creators has more benefits than “just” the hosting. preset.io/blog/running...

Bubble Sort in C

And today, *how* to comprehend SQL, courtesy @daveconnors3.bsky.social from work! You basically get to read our course notes after a week of being thoroughly Schooled by our new pals from SDF docs.getdbt.com/blog/sql-com...

post one of a new series kicking off today whose larger thrust is effectively: understanding SQL, not just a job for the database! Post 1 lays out what the levels of understanding docs.getdbt.com/blog/the-lev... #databs

Don't tell @jasnonaz.bsky.social (you don't have to; he knows), but sometimes getting a blog post out of me is like pulling teeth. On the other hand, bringing this one together was the most fun I've had in a while. What we mean when we talk about "comprehending SQL" docs.getdbt.com/blog/the-lev...

It's wonderful to contribute to civic life in my community. But there is no better feeling that realising my kid's daycare's budget meeting isn't tonight after all.

They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide

Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regular expressions that i search for one at a time inside of vim full writeup over here on my blog: eieio.games/blog/bad-app...

From the press release by Automattic: “We remain hopeful that WP Engine will reconsider this legal attack” Automattic right now:

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

it is extremely frustrating how many slop bots are in here but this is very funny

I found this a really useful catchup on a year's worth of LLM news: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

100% yes, let's discuss

Just Hard Work: randsinrepose.com/archives/jus...

happy birthday, Time

I’m not making this up.