Love me a good optimization whodunnit columnar.tech/blog/adbc-dr...

This is a wonderful introduction to dbt for those who come from data engineering and are dbt skeptical. The best part is that Robin comes at it from a place of curiousity and willingness to learn, and comes away excited! And as a bonus, great choice of orchestrator 😁

Went onsite with a customer this week planning to talk about all our Dagster skills as a way to help the team as they get their Dagster+ deployment off the ground. I started into a presentation about them, turns out they already started using them and loved them!

Hahahaahhaa hell yeah. The future rules! THE FUTURE RULES!

This has been my observation, but curious if anyone else feel this way: - if you are a builder at heart, using AI to code energizes you - if you are a craftsman at heart, using AI to code feels like it’s taking something away from you

Requiring a 3 stage form to pause a workflow is A Choice, SaaS data vendor 👀

When the doctor vibe codes your intake form

People talk about how AI make data infrastructure migrations easier but here's a concrete example. At my last job, we had 2 orchestrators -- Airflow and a legacy orchestrator. The legacy orchestrator's sole purpose was to run Informatica Power Center workflows and to kick off Qlikview dashboards.

May the Streisand effect be with you Stephen

Have been thinking along similar lines. Online space will be seen an auspicious and fake, though I think the counterbalance is that having conversations on it between two humans is so useful that I think we will find shibboleths that work even in online space

How will we know when AI knows something? The short version? I don’t know. But lately I’ve been thinking about how we assess whether children know something we’ve taught them. In school we teach a topic, and then give a test. It’s important in math for instance that students show their work. 1/4

Why learn 10 GUI interfaces when you could learn how to use 1 agent system (e.g. Claude Code). I was trying to set up an example data pipeline using Fivetran. I and had no idea where to find anything. I got frustrated and was about to read the docs on how to operate the GUI. 1/2 #dataBS

Saw that dbt’s Coalesce conference is going to be called “dbt Summit.” Good. Not sure if this was their intent but it’s nice to see dbt Labs’ marketing honestly — this is the dbt platform summit, no more and no less.

It has been 0 days since IAM has driven me bonkers

Like other Sales teams, we use AI to create custom demos. It’s a game changer, but in ways that surprised me. We use custom Claude Code commands and skills to generate a demo that matches the customer’s use case and tech stack. 1/3

Saturdays are for teaching your kids the value of software defined assets #dataBS Print yours here: dagster.io/what-assets-...

Threaded emoji-reactions in Slack when?

Did Claude Code get a glowup in addition to getting Opus 4.6? Loving the colors

No video conferencing software gives me as many excuses for being late as Microsoft Teams.

One weird communication habit I'm trying to kick is dropping the "Or" Like just ask the direct question that could be answered yes or no.

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

People often ask me how best to build their data platforms. I decided to take all of my hard-won experience and talking to to world's pre-eminent teams and codify it into an Agent Skill. Source: github.com/cnolanminich... Inspired by @kelseyhightower.com 's github.com/kelseyhighto... #dataBS

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Is the better UX a chatbot in everything or a chatbot that has access to everything? claude.com/blog/interac...

The thing I admire about @emilyriederer.bsky.social is that she takes tacit knowledge about so many aspects of data science, statistics, and data engineering and makes it explicit. Really great podcast with her on the test set! overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4 #dataBS

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

minneapolis was their gettysburg

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

MN > ICE

The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.

Minneapolis is going to win. Can’t you feel it? They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them. It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it

BREAKING: Minnesota plaintiffs ask federal appeals court to allow protections for those exercising constitutional rights following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti. They ask the 8th Circuit to lift the admin stay issued in the First/Fourth Amend case. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/184842027/...

Second direct witness to Alex Pretti's killing comes forward. Court declaration: "I saw him yelling at the ICE agents, but I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind. Suddenly, an ICE agent shoved him to the ground." 🧵

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Media keeps describing Pretti as a “protester” - “why bring a gun to a protest” - but he was something much more akin to a community-based first responder for ICE sightings. He likely wasn’t expecting to get beaten in the street by them or have any violent encounter. Just observe and alert.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.

Yes - they all know this could happen and they do it anyway. The reason it’s so unambiguous what happened is that the call had gone out and many people instantly rushed to the scene. Running towards danger. Heroes

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

We must stop funding DHS.

Walz: "We sill investigate this. We will not be stonewalled ... this will end when enough American say this will end. Do I have any confidence that Donald Trump will do the right thing? No ... quit referring to these people as law enforcement. They are not law enforcement."

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

A man was wrestled to the ground and shot multiple times by federal agents in Minneapolis

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

This is even worse for tech executives or anyone who spends time in and around software engineering. LLMs are truly transformative in SWE and struggling for adoption everywhere other than as bad companions.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.