I am only now realizing that "completeness of vision" is code for trying to be everything all at once? Which is the same as doing everything, poorly.

For random reasons, remember to re-watch Ars Technica's 2016 LSTM-generated movie "Sunspring". It is weird to think back on those times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x...

Danish rye bread is so dense and heavy, you might actually kill someone with it. Assault with a breadly weapon, as it were.

I skipped a day and now I think the bird is dead.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Depeche Mode [after which I read a review of the concert saying the band was great but the audience didn’t show sufficient excitement and ruined the band’s experience, so I decided not to go to concerts].

I sometimes forget the connection between Australia and the UK, but seeing a map where a meaningful percentage of the stops have names that could be infectious diseases really brings it home.

I don’t usually use the git switch command, and it is really just a convenience command. But it is really convenient.

Time to share this one again. Azure provides plenty of billable hours.

The less people know their data, the stronger their reliance on the medallion architecture. I am in a team where medallion would be practically meaningless. We know our data. Medallion is a symptom of incompetence. Happy Tuesday.

Recommendation engines are difficult to get right. And this is far from the worst example.

I met some Normal People(tm) the other day. 1 out of 3 had even heard about Bluesky. Don’t confuse this place with reality.

GitHub is down, let’s make some coffee.

New data source for the statistics game @markzandi.bsky.social. Seriously, it would be interesting to hear thoughts about the avocado-heavy DoorDash price index. about.doordash.com/en-us/news/s...

Every once in a while I translate IT terms to Norwegian and I’m like "wait, what? This is what programming sound like to Americans?"

Excel: what are you doing? Saving as CSV will cause you to lose functionality! Me: That is the entire point of it!

The tensorlake playground was, unlike AWS textract and every other tool I have tried, able to parse my angled, low-quality scan of Norwegian pay statistics from 1926. Not that 1926 Norwegian statistical tables is a generally useful benchmark…

On the bright side, humanity will finally go extinct.

Norwegian aid to Ukraine is predicated on spending the money abroad so as to not overheat the Norwegian economy. Very unsolidaric to push these externalities onto other countries.

I get a childish joy whenever I’m able to remove modals in css in order to access content. This time it was a spammy "please give us your email" modal, I’m not depriving journalists of dinner or anything.

Today in cursed autocompletes.

New contender in "how to Y-axis" just dropped.

I have tried it out a little, but as much as I respect dlt’s hustle, my initial reaction of "what kind of YOLO-shit is this" is still valid. I would prefer Meltano in a generic production environment (of course, the choice depends on the context).

Interesting eulogy for dbt: timodechau.com/dbt-blues/

So Americans work 12-hour days but does that include the time in golf simulators?

Sixtran shows that we need low interest rates again. Everything else shows that we don’t.

I am simultaneously worried by the dbt/fivetran merger, and quizzical why we, as paid professionals in profit-seeking entities, should have parasocial relationships with open source python packages.

I am still convinced the only thing European clouds need in order to be competitive is an actual IAM solution with passwordless M2M authentication. Stuff like Azure Managed Identity and IMDS. Please throw in Oauth CLI authentication while you’re at it.

Finished a workshop that seemed to have the mantra "why don’t people realize they can use this awesome technology that they don’t know about to solve this problem they don’t know they have?". I guess there’s a lot of money in selling people both the problem and the solution.

I’m ready to call it. Databricks governance is a fucking dumpster fire.

Databricks copilot is amazingly bad. Run bad command > tells me the syntax is X > Get error > tells me the syntax is Y > Get error > tells me the syntax is Z.

Absolutely bizarre that Databricks on Azure (and GCP) only lets you have one unity catalog per region - basically forcing you to develop in production.

Wrote up how to get GitHub Actions with OIDC to Azure working. Don’t know what that is? It is basically a way for your GitHub actions to log in to Azure without using a password. And Microsoft is making it increasingly easy to set up. radbrt.com/posts/github...

Really want @markzandi.bsky.social and the Inside Economics crew to comment on the idea that was floated to only publish employment numbers quarterly. I get the need to have new data ahead of fed meetings, but other than that a lot feels like impatience in a trench coat.

The difficulty of creating a grouped aggregation with a weighted average in Pandas tells you a lot about the users. With R, this is built-in. I wish the pandas aggregations were pluggable and we would be able to create things like weighted mean, gini etc.

💯don’t demo with fake data to the business. Or, actually, either demo with very correct numbers or so obviously fake numbers that everybody gets it.

So, my iPhone lock screen can’t render the letter "a"?

Read @edzitron.com’s guest post (the unpaywalled part): www.wheresyoured.at/the-remarkab... The article is about why companies buy software they don’t need. I have argued almost the exact opposite - that they build unnecessarily complex software themselves. 🧵 1/

This morning I read blog posts that convinced me that there are only two problems in software: that we buy software, and that we build software. I guess there is only one problem in software: software.

If you like my recent «Data Engineering Toolkit» one-pager, you're going to love this one. It's the Data Engineering Toolkit, presented in a long format. This resource is for experienced data engineers or people who want to dive into the DevOps side of DE.

When did my clipboard start syncing between my Mac and my iPhone? As cool as it is… why would anyone want that?

Sane security defaults needs to be included in the documentation and tutorials too. Databricks' use of user tokens is past it's expiration date. And the alternative is hardly documented: radbrt.com/posts/databr...

Damn, the new baidu models look sweet. Love that they are up on huggingface and has a space to try out.

I decided my new persona will consist of insisting that AI is useless and will also steal people’s jobs.

I miss drunk tweeting so much. Usability is far more important than cool features. Keep it simple. Keep it useable.

Talking to real actual humans that I know in Europe who are canceling their US travel plans because they don’t want to risk detention at the border.

I guess when a website URL has "prod" in the name I should be happy they don’t develop there.

This will be interesting, from the team that has been able to keep abstractions simple.

Several years ago, I asked the Inside Economics podcast w/ @markzandi.bsky.social what BLS statistics they wish existed. I thought they answered an improved version of that question a year ago, but my exact question came up this Friday. The answers were interesting both times. 🧵

Watching the dbt launch showcase and getting strong "we’re the new Informatica now" vibes.

I am starting to suspect SAS is uniquely suited to corrupt the brain of non-progammers. Few languages make it harder to do the right thing. It naturally pulls towards chaos.