So apparently you can become a Patreon creator just put stuff up. For free. Or for money. Up to you. www.patreon.com/posts/findin...

Hi Data Scientist friends! Come work with me at Patreon. Our DS team is hiring a Senior DS for some really fun work on recommender systems. (This is someone I'll be talking with a lot, so I'm heavily invested.) jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/f8f0... #DataScience

satire has lost all meaning

May inspo. I’m too chicken to post this on LinkedIn

Look, there’s only so much I can do. Any effort I put into my appearance comes out of something else. I’ve decided to adopt the practice of looksminning. I now identify as an erudite bog-goblin.

*smashes the Buy Now button*

It is once again time for me to reintroduce myself, I think. I'm Iris: I write a blog at deadsimpletech.com/blog about the impacts of the tech industry on culture and humanity in general. I also work as a technical consultant and coach/mentor in the data, infrastructure and web spaces.

Coding Hobgoblins Consistent style makes code easier to read and helps bugs to be more visible. I aim to keep my code mostly consistent and mostly in line with the recommendations of PEP 8, but if I have good reason to deviate I don't hesitate.

This from @anildash.com gives me hope. www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/o... It's a success story of people who have a problem and use ML to solve it. It features 1. domain experts 2. curated training data 3. generous open source sharing 4. a flood of community support This is what ML can be

"I am not hackable" remains our blindspot. How reluctant we are to let go this belief. joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

This gem from @awoodruff.bsky.social sits in the Venn diagram intersection of data, art, and Beantown. andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/b...

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in fantasy stories I've seen a recurring theme of naming things. A true name of a thing has great power and is inconveniently long. Ents in Lord of the Rings. Wolves in Wheel of Time. Sorcery in A Wizard of Earthsea. This is how I like to name my Python variables.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

in which @vickiboykis.com reveals How to rekindle the joy in ML Hopeful and grounded and a delight to read.

I have saved The mantises That were on The grill And for which You were probably Oh I don’t know What for Forgive me They were tiny So cute And adorbs

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

*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards #dataBS

Marathon Monday is upon us in Boston. No better way to celebrate than with a wicked cool map of the route. I just pre-ordered "Boston in 50 Maps" from @awoodruff.bsky.social . I love seeing my town in this way. andywoodruff.com

Do you have Opinions about Python packaging with uv? Let me know what I got wrong. brandonrohrer.org/python_packa... Includes - How do I name projects? Packages? Modules? Repositories? - What are wheels and sdists? - What are build tools and why do they matter?

here I fixed it for y'all

So this arrived today:

The latest stage in my quest to build a small/local/purposeful artisanal language model: Giving it a job and writing evals brandonrohrer.at/alms_task.html

ok so my ex yc vp is vv go go on ai rn bc he is in an sv vc gc or we -- my em is in on it w/ ai as an os to do ui qa in ci -- so tl dr ig im tl of ai ui qa ?? rn ai ui qa v1 is cc in an hv vm on my pc on gh pr xd

This post by @randyau.com is great www.counting-stuff.com/code-review-...

My blog had evolved into an unfriendly wall of links. To fix this I added an on-ramp section at the beginning. brandonrohrer.org

10/10, no notes. The one thing that I am curious about, though, is the potential that Bayesian methods have for solving or mitigating a lot of these issues. A lot of business problems do, after all, feature strong informative priors

I'm not a data scientist, but I recognize so many of the interesting challenges and quirks of being in a similar space from this fantastic article.

Hey #datascience people, new blog in which I aim to describe the complexities of being a Staff+ data science (and adjacent) roles. Let me know what I missed. brandonrohrer.org/ds_roles

It's not just you--job hunting today really is a beast. As @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social put it, the front door is fucked. The secret? Focus on connecting with actual human people. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

my inner 8 year old is giddy with the fact that I can just download hi-res images of THE MOON FROM SPACE and have them greet me from my monitor each morning. It's like I work in a rocketship. images.nasa.gov

On AI, margin pressure, and outsourcing all the best parts of work. Oh, and on inventing tomorrow. How's that for clickbait?

when you want to do lines but you're a shih tzu

This is what it sounds like when grown-ups talk about AI. Johnathan and Melissa are absolute legends. (this is a @rawsignal.ca stan account) youtu.be/ncmuXQGGqBM?...

This week on Counting Stuff, we're now in an era of 'unscientific management' and the systems we have are most definitely not designed to all the grifters out at the speed of their yes-bot enabled bullshit #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/the-era-of-u...

I've been having a ton of fun in the jewelry / resale space (I mentioned this on the last episode of NSSD). I've been hesitant to share bc fundamentally I still get embarrassed that I'm a GIRLY GIRL. But here's my lil' shop: poshmark.com/closet/curat...

I am biased but this is the greatest and possibly only Artemis II video you need 🌝 www.youtube.com/shorts/Tc2vN...

Day 1: Part-to-Whole Visualizing Teddy's magical expansion from a very average 45 pound dog into an immovable dire wolf once he hits the bed. Watercolor & ink. #30DayChartChallenge

happening in seconds!

happy trans day of visibility to all wonderful friends. may you be only as visible as you want, and then promptly left alone.

Issue 38 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 Includes: ➡️ Data Stewardship Handbook @elixir-europe.org ➡️ From CSV to Database with Python @brandonrohrer.com ➡️ Practicing Open Science with Qualitative Research in Education @drrachel.bsky.social @cnsyoung.com and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

As with everything else, "it's the people, stupid!" seems to carry the day. This is why I'm always saying that data science is fundamentally about relationships, not analysis. The DS model doesn't matter as much as the competence of the people playing the pieces on the board. /fin

This occupies an entire chapter in my non-existent book about how to data science in business. As you say it's mostly about tradeoffs, and the "best" fit depends on what you/the company values, the kind of leaders you have, and the mandates coming from executives. 1/n

Centralized or Distributed data science teams? Data scientists and DS leaders, what are your preferences here? Both have strengths and both have ways they can break down. I'm curious about your experiences with them.

Ok I'll bite I am a trans woman. But really that's the least interesting thing about me. I am a System Engineering Supervisor at Kennedy Space Center. In 4 days I will sit in the Complex Control Center Supporting the launch of Artemis II. I will help send 4 astronauts around the moon.

tired: vibe coding wired: rage building

If you need to climb the Data Engineering learning curve quickly (perhaps in preparation for an interview) I made a handy one-stop guide. brandonrohrer.com/data_eng_for...

if you are so inclined

any number you report, you will be asked to make go up or down

Future proof yourself with @iris-meredith.bsky.social