The best time to learn how to pronounce n8n is live on a demo

The difference between “Peppers” and “Pepperoni” is the difference between happy and bewildered children on pizza night

New parenting level unlocked: chauffeur

This post by @alexnoonan.bsky.social is the most grounded and useful guide to data pipeline optimization I’ve read in a very long time. Most things I read on this are overly generic because it’s a nuanced topic. It’s pretty long, and it’s worth every minute: dagster.io/blog/when-an... #dataBS

Eating day old pizza dipped in ranch to like a good yinzer should

Unfortunately the space of LLM code errors and the space of human errors are not the same, making hard-won code review instincts misfire

America is firmly in its “Doom Days” era

If the measure of a movie is how much time you spend thinking about it after, Bugonia is a fantastic movie. Beautiful, surprising, echoes and reinterpretations of myth, stunning performances. Glad it is one of the few movies I’ve made it to theaters to watch.

Listened to the new Lily Allen album today so I don’t need to go to therapy for like 6 months

Why is there a ceiling for data analyst career ladders? In software engineering there is a concept of a “staff+ “ role that is still an independent contributor, but isn’t on the people management track. Data Engineering and to an extent analytics engineering have this type of role. #dataBS 1/4

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

Trying again to join a Discord and damn I feel like an Old

“Flexibility without fragmentation” In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale. @colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out! #dataBS dagster.io/how-to-scale...

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

Learn English the Hard Way. Software Engineers have had to learn to write code and understand the fundamental architectures despite extensive frameworks that obfuscated those core principles for decades. And those engineers create beautiful and effective software. 1/2

No grumpier person than a parent the day of daylight savings

Me: The least-helpful workshops are often the ones given by people who just Know Too Much 🥹 Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this? Me: No, show me! Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-... Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂 #rstats #python #databs

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

I made a Slackbot that uses a LLM-backed knowledge search to make our sales engineers’ lives easier, and now our sales reps can ask it questions and SEs respond with a “good bot” or a “clanker” emoji reaction So when the robots come to purge us all, you’re welcome

Large tech companies doing serious, speculative R&D across the frontier of manufacturing, robotics, and AI is Good, Actually

What (SFW!) emoji are you too embarrassed to ask the intent behind when people post them? 😅 is a big ?? from me and I just nod along

👀 sqlfluff go brrr "This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase." #dataBS github.com/sqlfluff/sql...

Guy who never adds a Slack profile picture

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

There were the cool kids who had Rock Band in my college dorm and man was it fun playing “when we were young” and a million other hits on it. Loved the trip down memory land for Guitar Hero on Version History @davidpierce.xyz Link: overcast.fm/+ABRo_apMZTY

“I think there is so much space for a slam dunk experience, there is so much space for massively leveling up how people perceive your tools when attention is spent at the boundaries of things.” Incredible interview with @juliasilge.com on her management / leadership style, strongly resonates w me

so much depends upon a good night’s slumber eyes deep glazed over the weekend plan scrambled

3 year old legit devastated that his Link costume doesn’t come with a metal sword

I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.

A classic, updated Original of course xkcd.com/303/

If you only read one thing about data this month, it should be this essay. What a beautiful description of what data engineering is. Every sentence resonated and the insights are real and memorable.

This case study from PostHog is why I love working with prospects and customers on Dagster+. I've been oncall and gotten the 4am page that my flaky pipeline has failed, needs to be restarted, and then babysat it through morning hours till my kids woke up. #dataBS dagster.io/customers/po...

12 year old finally asked for a copy of the Iliad (he’s read all of Percy Jackson, played Hades). Gave him the Lattimore translation, and when I stopped by a bit later he said “do I need to read this 55 page introduction?” Made me think that those essays should probably go at the end

Showed my kids Edward Scissorhands this Halloween — what a beautiful and bizarre movie

"Estimated effort: 27-40 hours remaining for complete migration." Said Claude Code to me halfway through migrating some Airflow DAGs to Dagster Components. I wonder if Claude Code's estimates to human efforts are as bad as human's estimates!

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

Skills looks really useful for context management for Claude code. It always felt janky putting CLI commands or small scripts inside a Claude .md, and now I can put them in their own skill and feel civilized again www.anthropic.com/news/skills

When you realize you didn't thread a Slack reply but instead commented in the channel

Exciting opportunity! As I shift over to the Storage team at Supabase, we’re opening up a spot on the Data Eng team. If you’re curious about the work or what it’s like here, my DMs are open. Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/69d...

Data engineers: "memento mori" www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

🤯 www.reuters.com/business/a16... #dataBS

Excited to be at All Things Open tomorrow! Come hang out at the @dagster.io booth, or see my talk “Enabling education with a little help from AI” at 1:45 EST on Tuesday!

“And the system just works. One of our ML engineers built and launched a full testing framework in a day using the open-source docs from Ray and Dagster. No handholding needed, no custom tools, no waiting around — that’s what good infra unlocks.” High praise for Dagster and Ray! 1/2 #dataBS

What society would look like if everyone knew that being skilled at one thing does not make you skills at everything

We've open sourced QuackStore - a block-based caching extension for DuckDB! 🦆 QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need. Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...

“Look for yes. It’s almost always there.” Matches my experience, and why good communication is so important, especially at the intersection of different teams boz.com/articles/loo...

Early in my career, I cultivated a spirit of “I know nothing.” Now I try to do the much harder thing of accepting responsibility over areas I have unique skills in, while still trying to be curious and trying know what I don’t know. “Know thyself” turns out to the final, forever boss.