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Sometimes a new feature drops in Dagster and brings a smile to my face. Dagster's asset graph shows you how _all_ of your assets are connected, but sometimes you want to find out which jobs are targeted by a set of sensors, schedules, or jobs (and maybe a combination of them!).

Missed this before but the great data tool consolidation (by Fivetran no less!)continues apace, this time for Great Expectations greatexpectations.io/blog/an-upda...

Culture eats AI adoption for breakfast. Was talking to a friend who started the conversation with "How has AI use been going at your job?" And called out reviewing slop PRs as a major headache.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Warnock: "I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I'm tired of racism. I think it's a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady."

Thanks to the AI revolution, one 9 is now the gold standard for uptime in the software industry.

We are going to look back on ~90% of things that the "don't be left behind" people say as ridiculous in 1 year. Maybe sooner! "You don't need SAAS" and "you don't need libraries" are two such insanities. It's exactly the same as the people who said you don't need a car because you have Uber! 🙄

My hack for watching shows with cliffhanger endings is to watch the middle of one episode to the middle of the next

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

Justice for the em dash! take it back from the clankers

Automation is not always a good thing. Years ago, I stopped a team member who was creating an error-prone automation that would attempt to ingest a manually maintained spreadsheet into our data warehouse. Since it’s manually maintained, you are introducing more instability by automating it. 1/4

There goes one more excuse for my typos on social media www.fastcompany.com/91531539/thi...

Almost by definition, LLMs give you an “average” response, for almost any area but especially in software. In many cases the average is amazing! Like generating boilerplate code, or glue code for integrations, or for generating “good enough” code for a well established codebase. But

There are many aspects of Vicki’s beautiful presentation I will be thinking about for a while, but the one I want to call attention to is the line “We should spend our innovation tokens to help us grow.” This will not look the same for each person, or even each person in each project! 1/4 #dataBS

“the Great Divide…produced by…Aaron Dessner (the sad-folk Phil Spector)” Never has my musical taste been better described, and never have I felt more attacked. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Claude Code when I ask why it deleted prod

Easy ways to reduce your token spend. No one will do these three weird tricks to write less code because they’re so boring: 1. Talk to other people in your org to get better requirements 2. Have humans write good documentation 3. Make your internal search tool better

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

This podcast / essay by @reckless.bsky.social is very much worth a listen. The limit of consumer AI might not be the technology but the areas we are willing or is even healthy to automate and put into a database. www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

Find yourself a startup where your allhands shitposting zoom chat is just as fun and engaging as the main event

Claude Code makes non-code work feel like code work. I am more likely to spend the same amount of time messing with Claude Code config / prompts than I am to just create the damn Google slide. Basically this comic but even worse because I'm also burning tokens! xkcd.com/1319/

Love comparisons of tools that are fair and have some complexity baked in. @hachej.bsky.social has a great new post up comparing how Claude Code does at generating EL pipelines from Fivetran SDK and dlt, along with where the tradeoffs are. #dataBS juhache.substack.com/p/i-let-clau...

who said you couldn't teach an old git new tricks?

Data Science is like shadow IT that eventually took over regular IT. It was long and honestly kinda torturous to have 2-3 versions of the same technology for years, and while data science was growing up kind of worse versions? Eg pandas being slow, or dplyr not supporting in database computation

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

I'm going to be thinking about this for a while -- declarative visualization, in your database engine instead of as an add on. Feels very @evidence.dev but as a SQL extension vs. as markdown?

Friday night: always a good time for some Muppet Treasure Island

Tough times for Onion headline writers these days when reality is so absurd

Allbirds: the Microstrategy of AI www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

New post. You built an ML model with {tidymodels} that you want automated in Dagster. Engineering's reply: "Sorry, we need this rewritten in Python to deploy." No more. With the {dagsterpipes} R package, you can run R code in Dagster with full observability. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/use-r-...

Everyone social media app needs this

Beautiful and thought provoking essay by @mitsuhiko.at It’s ostensibly about AI, but it’s a much more general point about useful criticism requires deep engagement, and that most critics don’t want to. In other words, selection bias rules everything around me. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/th...

Lord grant me the audacity of this cedar playhouse maker who put “add branding plate” as step 54 in a 3 hour setup

I’ve been absolutely part of the nerds mocking the “it’s too powerful to release” mantra. That feels like the 4 hour erection warning for software. This morning I actually sat down to read details about Mythos. 😳 Um. We’ve got a systemic problem. It’s finding zero days by the dozen. 1/n

Another year, another career day where I ask “how do I explain selling a B2B SaaS Data Ops platform like Dagster to a bunch of kindergartners to 3rd graders in a way that’s interesting?” Last year, I explained that selling software as a sales engineer is all about:

Hey #rstats world. Before I write something, is there anything out there to discover database table relationships from a large body of production sql (1000+ queries)? I have a largeish undocumented data warehouse (700 tables, 28k cols).

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We just released version 1.13.0 of @dagster.io with lots of great features like official Dagster skills for, virtualized assets for modeling entities like views, partitioned asset checks, and more. Check out the blog post for more details.

I use neither R nor Windows on the regular but what a fantastic development for folks who do!

Gonna need a new analogy for horrible inefficiency, went to the PA DMV for a new drivers license and I was in and out in 10 minutes (!!) I even had to go to 2 counters because I lost my camera card that came in the mail

Finding kid shows I also like is the final boss of parenting. Latest example? Dino Dana!

I just realized the "tell" (is there a better word?) when I'm reading something written by AI. I stop reading & sort of feel my attention slide off the words. I make it a few sentences in before I'm just 🫠 & then I know it's AI, but I'd not really realized it was happening in realtime before today

3 year old gets on swing. 8 year old: “can I push you?” 3 year old, not skipping a beat: “do you have the strength of 8 men?”

The modern world (the cosmos, quantum physics, medicine) is so bizarre and disconnected from basic, observable reality. The system depends on trust, and it’s why we’re in deep deep trouble. Not a novel idea but it is why e.g. Artemis II won’t convince anyone. It’s a social not knowledge issue

Tech bros using AI to do A Thing and then using AI to brag about it on LinkedIn

Data people: have you ever worked in a product operating model? (E.g. x-functional team, coordinated by a PM, building outcome-oriented tech products - a la Marty Cagan.) What was your experience? What were some hangups and how did the product team overcome operational challenges? #dataBS

Is GitHub’s unreliable service a sign of poor infra? A sign of a huge increase in traffic due to agentic code? An opportunity for new entrants to provide a fundamentally better service? @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com answers YES to all 3: open.substack.com/pub/pragmati...

What’s a movie that lives rent free in your head that no one else talks about? Mine is Clifford