Apache Polaris has graduated to a top-level project! This has been a long time coming, and we love that it makes life even easier for Iceberg users to get value from their data. Congratulations to all of my Apache Polaris friends. www.snowflake.com/en/blog/apac...

The cost of a welcome is zero, the value is infinite. 💖 Join Women+ in Open Source day on March 9 to celebrate the incredible women shaping the future of open source and help build a stronger pipeline for everyone. luma.com/qcqlia4g What first made you feel welcome in the OSS world?

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

If you're here at FOSDEM this week, I'd love to chat! Send me a DM and let's catch up

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Want to unlock the real potential of #GenAI? It starts with well-built data fundamentals. 💡 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social keynote shows how you can combine AI tools like #GeminiCLI & OSS data tools like #Iceberg to build those fundamentals. Watch: youtu.be/y4Hp5mEtukg #DataEngineering #OpenSource

Want to unlock the real potential of #GenAI? It starts with well-built data fundamentals. 💡 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social keynote shows how you can combine AI tools like #GeminiCLI & OSS data tools like #Iceberg to build those fundamentals. Watch: youtu.be/y4Hp5mEtukg #DataEngineering #OpenSource

New profile picture from my keynote talk, courtesy of my friends @allthingsopen.bsky.social! Thanks for a great time, an awesome conference, and this picture too!

OK, but hear me out: Sam the Eagle is the unifying political figure our country needs. #Sam2028

Good morning #AllThingsOpen! Be sure to check out my keynote in about an hour to learn more about how you can use AI to build better data fundamentals!

Less than 1 week until @allthingsopen.bsky.social kicks off! My buddy Lamar and I can't wait to see everyone in Raleigh. Be sure to check out my Monday morning keynote so we can address the elephant in the room to kickoff #AllThingsOpen

Explaining the Bible to the literal Pope is a level of ignorance and ego that I fear humanity may never be able to exceed

Good morning #CommunityOverCode 2025! If you're here in Minneapolis for ASF's Community over Code 2025, I would love to say hi and get to know the community even better! You can probably find me in any of the data talks. If not, DM me! Let's grab your beverage of choice and chat 😀

There are a lot of technologies that succeed because they map our way of thinking to existing paradigms! For example: Your turn signal clicks because it used to use a relay that made that noise. We no longer use manual relays, but the noise remains!

The United States is THE ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH that cannot prevent school shootings. It's obviously not just mental health

One night, I was getting my 4YO ready for bed and I said "I love you" to him and he goes "yeah" as nonchalantly as anyone has ever said anything Kids know how to humble you faster than anyone

The #GSoC team did awesome work this year to make the GSoC program a success. Check out the highlights, including how many first-time open source contributors, the variety of projects, & record-breaking proposal submissions! #GSoC2025 #OpenSource #GoogleOpenSource goo.gle/gsoc-2025-st...

Data engineers, take note: Apache Iceberg v3 is here!🎉 New binary deletion vectors make CDC, row-level updates can be made much faster, and more! Read the latest Google Open Source blog post for all the details. #DataEngineering #ApacheIceberg goo.gle/apache-icebe...

Age verification? I used to collect call my parents to pick me up from middle school and say "pleasepickmeupweredone" when they asked for my name

I definitely read the Census for fun

As a lifelong Pirates fan, nothing about this surprises me.

This is a great example of how data can be used to create a feedback loop that helps humans improve from @jjcoop36.bsky.social and the team at @baseballamerica.com! www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-...

This might be the most developer-friendly launch I've seen in.... well I don't know, but a long time. This is awesome!

If I ever build a BI tool, the UI will have a button for pie charts. But instead of creating a visualization, it'll just show them this and a LONG text explanation of why they shouldn't use pie charts

As a Pittsburgher, I pride myself on being something of an expert on bridge obsessions. So I can safely say @anthropic.com's Golden Gate Claude was the absolute pinnacle of humanity's technological advances, and it will only be downhill from there.

This is an excellent summary of how we don't REALLY understand why LLMs make the "decisions" they do! youtu.be/nMwiQE8Nsjc?...

Good morning #PyConUS, it's a great day for lightning talks! I'd love to talk about open data and learn how you're using Python to analyze your data. Come find me and say hi to the sea otters!

It's #PyConUS25 time!! If you're here in Pittsburgh, come find me to say hi. I'll be the guy in the awesome jacket carrying a bag of salty sea otters.

Who is coming to Pittsburgh for #PyCon this weekend?! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and showing off my hometown! And, if you like salty sea otters, you'll definitely wanna find me and say hi. You'll be able to find me easily, I'll be the guy in the great jacket!

I wanted to make a joke here, but this is actually a GREAT way to vibe code. Start with documentation, then include that context in your prompt to generate code. Polish and publish!

I recently joined Google's Open Source Office to help champion OSS growth both internally and externally! I'm thrilled to be back in the open-source ecosystem supporting teams across Google and open-source communities across the globe.

This is an exceptionally small-minded view. The end state is the same: The US President is probably compromised and now owes foreign governments a favor for accepted payment. This isn't limited to the Qataris either! Either way, we can't be sure he's acting in America's best interests as a result

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

"but I get my weather on my phone" This would mean you wouldn't get a worthwhile forecast from anyone anymore

🔥 BigQuery made getting structured data from LLMs way easier! Use AI.GENERATE_TABLE + Gemini, define your output_schema, and boom - instant table. Docs -> cloud.google.com/bigquery/doc...

I'm getting a new donut shop

Everyday it gets even harder and harder to differentiate between The Onion and The Atlantic

I just heard someone describe agents as "a bunch of tools standing on each others shoulders in a trench coat" and it's amazing

As a data person, I have some questions

In today's edition of "Why SRE teams matter" www.digitaltrends.com/computing/x-...

I cannot say this loudly enough: It's not "efficiency", it's absolute gross incompetence to make large scale cuts at NOAA, especially where they were made. These cuts will result in millions of dollars of property and countless lives lost. We are significantly worse off today than we were yesterday

My colleague is currently hogging all the warm air. I will be contacting HR immediately

Well that's not how the jetstream works

I don't understand this. NOAA's data is the foundation of the weather enterprise. They already have access to everything NOAA produces and the taxpayer (just barely) funds that access!

I have nothing but the utmost respect for Neil Jacobs. He's a brilliant man who cares deeply about NOAA and its mission. He will absolutely have its best interests in mind and actively work towards them. This couldn't be a better pick IMO

Struggling to get your agents to produce valid, useful SQL? My latest blog post is here to the rescue! Learn how to get your models to generate great queries with a little help from BigQuery's information schema #LLM #SQL #Gemini #AgenticWorkflows medium.com/@shanecglass...

Dear COBOL programmers: Please be on-stand by. There's ZERO chance this guy can even spell COBOL.

I'm excited about the blog post I'm working on, especially because the demo was so much fun to build! If you're looking to improve how your agentic workflows generate SQL, you'll definitely want to check it out