It has finally happened, I uploaded a new chapter to my book. It's called «Data Engineering Workspace Packaging Pattern», and it's all about appropriately packaged data engineering workloads. 🔗 www.dedp.online/part-2/5-dep...

Finalizing the chapter on a #workspace pattern that addresses the issue to push changes in a reliable, isolated, and abstracted manner to an existing stack. Instead of fixing pipelines with one more patch, we need better approaches. Do you have a go-to to deploy DE artifacts cohesively?

Installing Omarchy for the Fam! :)

TIL—you can just mount S3 to your file system and use yazi to edit, upload, and change files 🤩 Setup: www.ssp.sh/brain/s3fs-f...

If these counts are correct, I've created nearly 3.73 million words across 8'724 markdown files. > My Second Brain alone is 14 novels (~250k per novel) > My total collection equals about 16'000 pages If printed as books, I'd have a small personal library of 15–20 volumes, according to Claude 🤯.

How many notes does your #Obsidian vault contain? 🙂 Mine has ``` ~/Simon/SecondBrain ❯ find . -name "*.md" -type f | wc -l 8541 ``` And public on my second brain are 546 of these. This is around 6%. Should I publish more of the private ones? Or better focusing to refine as blog posts? 😉

One thing I learned about to-dos, it’s never about the to-do app, it’s about having constraints to not add anything immediately.

How do you manage your todo's? Here's a brain dump of how I manage my todo's, personal and business. Usually it's not about the tool, but the constraints, and the clear rigidness, to not add more work to your plate than needed.

Manual vs. Obsidian Graph? 😀 www.ssp.sh/brain/digita...

Long time I was listening to books on the walks, but this always felt like more work. Sure, if you have a great book, listening can be fun too, but I did my best to calm down when going without any distraction. Just me and nature. www.ssp.sh/brain/turn-o...

A short write-up based on a discussion I had with @ergestx.bsky.social. I explained to him that I don't conduct research. This led me to refine my own thoughts a little more, journal, and publish them. The case I make is a little bit exaggerated, but in general, that's my approach.

Social media addiction is real #dumbphone #flow Attached a great write-up by Michael, thanks for sharing. If you like books, I suggest checking out Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari. It explains that you are not the problem; the apps, especially social media, are.

Who remembers? :) #slowliving

What's your go-to #dataarchitecture? I like the data architecture below, going from `Staging -> Cleansing -> Core -> Marts`; classical architecture of a DWH. It's what we used as a consultancy from the very beginning. Very similar to the 2nd: `Bronze -> Silver -> Gold -> Platinum`.

A collection of #Omarchy workstations, one of them are mine. Can you spot it? 😉 Check it out here: omarchy.org/workstations/

I just found this pic, and the physical notebook caught my eye. Apparently, they are called «Nuuna Not White» and come in different colors. They look stunning. Has anyone tried? I like physical books to write daily/weekly to-dos. And brainstorm. nuuna.com/notebook-not...

Today's Office. New machine, same OS. Tuxedo Laptop, 128 GB RAM 🤯. Very smooth. #Omarchy

My website in 2005. I cropped an image I liked with Adobe Photoshop (I believe) and created an HTML page. Then I converted it into a template using PHP and only changed the content. Almost the same approach I use today with Hugo, except for Markdown & static. Otherwise, same same 20 years later!

Omarchy spotted! 🙃

Data modeling. www.ssp.sh/brain/data-m...

Once it was called «Software is eating the world», now it seems the pendulum is swinging back to more unified and integrated data platforms.

Open-source gifts.

Data modeling got on the back burner for way too long. But one that is even less written about is the modeling of real-time analytics, so-called OLAP cubes. How do we model them? Do we take a different approach to DWHs? At what level of granularity do we persist/cache? Common errors or practices?

Consolidations in the data engineering market are happening fast. Tools from the modern data stack get unified into bigger data platforms. What's your take?

Omarchy mentioned (and demonstrated, including a full install!) at the Rails keynote. youtu.be/gcwzWzC7gUA?...

TIL—AWS credentials are needed (e.g., from environment variables, IAM roles, etc.) even for public buckets. Otherwise, you can go around with NOSIGN: ``` FROM s3( 's3://bucket/path/file.csv.gz', NOSIGN, -- Forces anonymous access 'CSV' ) ```

Which one is the best platform for creating a newsletter or members? What do you use? Here is a little overview that helps to choose. See more on www.ssp.sh/brain/open-s....

New Open Table Formats keep being added. www.ssp.sh/brain/data-l...

3D Pinball: Space Cadet for Windows XP

A quick brain dump of an idea I'm thinking of: My «Writer's Room». I'd like to share, in an easy-to-follow way, the latest things I've learned, as well as the things I'm pondering, mapped out in a timeline for you to follow along. Would that be something you are interested in 🤔?

I created an #Omarchy feed, if anybody wants to follow along on Bluesky. Description: > Opinionated Arch distro created by DHH. Replacement for Windows on macOS that is aesthetically pleasing and heavily shortcut-oriented. Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... GitHub project: github.com/basecamp/oma...

I converted it into a TUI. Now, when I start Windows VM with my Launcher, it will automatically run the Docker image & RDP into the VM and opening a frameless Hyprland app. What a world. Check the short video below for the demo.

On #Omarchy, and quickly need to edit MS Word? Or any other Windows native app? Just run one command to have a running Windows, and a second to connect via RDC: ``` docker run -it --rm --name windows -p 8006:8006 .... rdesktop -u docker 127.0.0.1:3389 ```

Beautiful! Thank you @python.org.

Gotta love this Hill Chart history view for tracking the progress of my business. #basecamp

#Marketing is a way of transporting enthusiasm. It could be either good or bad enthusiasm, but usually, it is contagious and refreshing. Curated or manufactured enthusiasm or fake enthusiasm no longer works well. Real enthusiasm is coming back. Authenticity, genuine, especially in a world of AI.

Reading the HN comments with another TUI 😀. github.com/bensadeh/cir...

Currently, on Hacker News.

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually.

Accessing S3 with a TUI, why not!

#todaysoffice #omarchy

I created my own TUI image OCR searcher for all my screenshots and recent images. I was missing the Snagit library of all my screenshots taken, and even OCR text search. Now with gum and fzf and preview with yazi, I have a much nicer and faster TUI. 🐧 Linux is beautiful. #Omarchy

Are you enjoying a nice theme on @obsidian.md? Take a look at the four I created. Really great to see that they get used. The latest one is Osaka Jade: bsky.app/profile/ssp.....

My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook...

It's always a great, happy surprise to randomly find out that one of my articles is on the front page of Hacker News. Today, it's my #omarchy article about moving away from macOS. Check it out at www.ssp.sh/blog/macbook... if you like #linux or using a MacBook.

Ideas worth sharing are insights from having lived. You can't create great ideas out of thin air. You must have gone through a hard time, possibly lived in different places, or overcome obstacles. These all make great insights and ideas to share. Use the art of asking questions, and start sharing.

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Many ask themselves, «Why would I use a semantic layer? How to build one?». But a better question is: How many times have you implemented the same revenue calculation differently across your company's dashboards, reports, and apps? This is why semantic layers exist.