dumb opinions strongly held

There are a ton of posts about why x or y solution The Best, but my colleague Eric Thomas breaks it down: what concrete benefits might Dagster bring to your data pipelines? Give it a gander (and clone the project and take it for a spin!): dagster.io/blog/buildin... #dataBS

This funny, irreverent yet earnest documentary on extreme birding was exactly the palate cleanser I needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Just clicked “undo” on an email I accidentally reply all’d to everyone in my company

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

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Online discourse about anything makes sense when you remember how few college kids Did the Reading and how few of those Understood the Reading

Sales Engineers: find you a founder who loves and respects the SE craft they way Nick Schrock does. “I love Sales Engineers … sales engineers know the truth. The right SE could have the keys to the castle.” Hear the whole (excellent) podcast here: overcast.fm/+AA4TR8cJQU0

What advice would you give to someone in their twenties who wants to build a secure tech career?

Or, what my broken fridge taught me about B2B SaaS

I ordered a new washing machine within 5 minutes of realizing my old one was broken. I am extremely confident about the purchase, despite knowing approximately nothing about washing machines. 1/3

This is the most fun I’ve seen on Bluesky in MONTHS. Simply a delightful graveyard of worst practices that still work for people

I strive to have a child’s mindset: * leaving dirty sock booby traps in blankets on the couch for unsuspecting guests * asking why is there no pepperoni in unironic outrage while I use half a pound for my lunch * ask if my package came every hour on the hour even though it’s a 2 day delivery

All I want for Christmas is an agent that removes emoji, em dashes, and superfluous text files

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

As a guy who never watches late night talk shows, I found @jimmykimmel.com‘s opening last night equal parts funny, moving, and frankly inspiring. We need more people in high places defending the first Amendment bigly

Every parent of young children

Kids these days have it too easy #dataBS #sql

Check out this demo by yours truly if you've been Dagster-curious and want to know what it means when I say that data engineers can have nice things! youtu.be/7kFlvnPkA34

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Welp

Wrote me some dplyr and ggplot graphs today, no coding assistants, haven’t written a ggplot in probably 9 months. Good APIs are like riding a bicycle. #dataBS

The people pleaser to manager pipeline

Data eng / software eng I learned the hard way: "no fun names." * Don't name your servers after Pokemon * don't name your database schemas after some cute internal branding name -- Medallion is fine, "raw / transformed / curated" is even better! Many such cases #dataBS

Guy who double emoji-reacts to your Slack messages

Normalize never saying "leverage" or "utilize" as a verb. Tempted? "Use" is right there! Simple words are better words

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"Tech debt" is a polite way of saying "I told you so"

Iceberg writes from duckdb? Love seeing datalake technology become more and more interoperable! duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...

At the rate we're going, planes are going to start getting measles again. Planes haven't suffered measles since World War II.

That sinking feeling when you tell your (much handier) dad about the horrid screeching noises your washer is making and he responds simply “Good luck!”

Such a fun listen on ducklake and duckdb with @hannes.muehleisen.org and @markraasveldt.bsky.social! Learned a lot, the future of ducklake looks very bright! overcast.fm/+AAH1YOLrL6Q

Guy who @ channel’s the community slack for his niche question

The #DataBS Conf draft schedule (sans time assignments, and maybe a straggler or two) has been posted! databsconf.com/schedule/ Now is the time to get hyped and grab a ticket to attend the online-online event Wed Sept 24! tickets: ti.to/databsconf/d...

Data engineers only want one thing and it’s disgusting

Just found out that Lego doesn’t publish hard copy catalogs anymore for sustainability reasons. Which like.. good for LEGO but tough for people who don’t want give their kids a tablet to browse

Our half marathons here in Lancaster PA feature bands singing bangers such as “it is well with my soul” Also such a lovely course full of farmland

Ok, my buddies and I were ALL ABUZZ as we read about #nanonext last night 👀 Have you seen it?! Data exchange between R and Python made way more accessible? I have questions!! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #databs #rstats #python

Fivetran rn #dataBS

AI karma: saved myself an hour by vibe coding a tedious data pipeline integration, spent an hour finding the subtle bug that rendered the entire pipeline useless. And no, vibe coding couldn’t help me find my way out, it wanted me to give up and do something totally different. #dataBS

Interesting, Polars Cloud launch: pola.rs/posts/polars... Curious if this is trying to eat into managed Spark workloads / which players they’ll directly compete with

Always start your Tuesdays with these 3 three’s to be successful: * 3 sick kids * 3 hours of sleep * a 3 hour window where your new fridge could be delivered Follow me for more life hacking advice!

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

One of the two most important things I learned from my Christian upbringing was an emphasis on close reading, and on the theory of good interpretation (hermeneutics). Instead of assuming anything contradictory was, you assume it’s right and “if these are both true, what follows from that?”

Ok I watched the Python documentary. Recommended! A major theme is how Python the language evolves (2 -> 3, the walrus operator), and also how Python the community evolved (women giving Pycon talks from 2% to 40% in a few years, core committers from 0 -> 2) youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...

Co-sign. I don’t post about the latest hot topic for this reason. I just don’t see the point and I don’t think it’s good for me. But I will post about whatever things I feel like!

On hold at Lowe’s and it’s a ringer instead of hold music and I’m questioning why hold music was ever a thing

I was back in my hometown a few weeks ago and realised that my dad was treating LLMs like he would another human. This was … bad, for reasons. So I started looking for a vaccine to inoculate him against anthropomorphising the AI apps he was using.

You can tell that Slack is part of Salesforce when you spend 2 hours thinking "I'll edit this workflow in 2 minutes!" 1 I don't own the workflow 2 np I'll ask who owns it 3 they're no longer here 4 clone the workflow 5 edit the form 6 oh now I need to edit the LIST 7 repeat 1-5 but for list