Becky Sweger
@bendystraw.bsky.social
Principal skeeball shit talker, data engineer, current research fellow @ UMass biostatistics. Formerly Trello/Atlassian & 18F. Philadelphian turned Masshole. She/her.
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🚨Mama falcon is feeding her babies *right now* on the UMass library falcon cam!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsg...
UMass Amherst Libraries Falcon Cam 2025
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May 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨Mama falcon is feeding her babies *right now* on the UMass library falcon cam!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsg...
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I can't spend all day complaining about Google's AI maligning us, so I'll take this moment to handle some overdue marketing.
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April 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I can't spend all day complaining about Google's AI maligning us, so I'll take this moment to handle some overdue marketing.
Subscribe to Clarkesworld here:
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Only human art and writing. (No matter what Google tries to claim.)
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Only human art and writing. (No matter what Google tries to claim.)
When you're writing up the Five Whys for an incident report...
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When you're writing up the Five Whys for an incident report...
You can get your very own copy of the database that powers usaspending.gov.
Here's a walk down memory lane about the original reason for publishing the usaspending PostgreSQL archive: a bug, a delivery date mandated by law, and a roadmap.
beckysweger.com/2025/02/11/i...
#usaspending #data
Here's a walk down memory lane about the original reason for publishing the usaspending PostgreSQL archive: a bug, a delivery date mandated by law, and a roadmap.
beckysweger.com/2025/02/11/i...
#usaspending #data
February 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You can get your very own copy of the database that powers usaspending.gov.
Here's a walk down memory lane about the original reason for publishing the usaspending PostgreSQL archive: a bug, a delivery date mandated by law, and a roadmap.
beckysweger.com/2025/02/11/i...
#usaspending #data
Here's a walk down memory lane about the original reason for publishing the usaspending PostgreSQL archive: a bug, a delivery date mandated by law, and a roadmap.
beckysweger.com/2025/02/11/i...
#usaspending #data
Everyone is tired, but please…posting screenshots with no attribution or link or other way to verify their accuracy is absolutely not helping.
January 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Everyone is tired, but please…posting screenshots with no attribution or link or other way to verify their accuracy is absolutely not helping.
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Hello population researchers and demographers. I spent five years at the Carolina Population Center. I now work at @propublica.org. Reach out and say hi.
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Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
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January 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hello population researchers and demographers. I spent five years at the Carolina Population Center. I now work at @propublica.org. Reach out and say hi.
www.propublica.org/tips/federal...
www.propublica.org/tips/federal...
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If for some reason you want to dig into the myriad of ways that federal grant money funds the things around you, spend some time with usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If for some reason you want to dig into the myriad of ways that federal grant money funds the things around you, spend some time with usaspending.gov
If for some reason you want to dig into the myriad of ways that federal grant money funds the things around you, spend some time with usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If for some reason you want to dig into the myriad of ways that federal grant money funds the things around you, spend some time with usaspending.gov
I just wanna live my life and share Python scripts without Futzing Around
Python + uv run: sharing is caring: https://beckysweger.com/2025/01/06/change-your-life-with-uv.html
Python + uv run: sharing is caring: https://beckysweger.com/2025/01/06/change-your-life-with-uv.html
January 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I just wanna live my life and share Python scripts without Futzing Around
Python + uv run: sharing is caring: https://beckysweger.com/2025/01/06/change-your-life-with-uv.html
Python + uv run: sharing is caring: https://beckysweger.com/2025/01/06/change-your-life-with-uv.html
20 years later, I still fondly and frequently remember Fafblog and Fafnir and the Medium Lobster and Giblets.
Fafblog perfectly encapsulates the intersection of peak Bush-era War on Terror and peak weblog. Is there a 2024 equivalent?
fafblog.blogspot.com/2004/09/driv...
Fafblog perfectly encapsulates the intersection of peak Bush-era War on Terror and peak weblog. Is there a 2024 equivalent?
fafblog.blogspot.com/2004/09/driv...
driving with donald
So we're ridin on down the road in our Cross Country Journey of Inner Discovery and Of Course the American Dream when Donald Rumsfeld hits a...
fafblog.blogspot.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:22 PM
20 years later, I still fondly and frequently remember Fafblog and Fafnir and the Medium Lobster and Giblets.
Fafblog perfectly encapsulates the intersection of peak Bush-era War on Terror and peak weblog. Is there a 2024 equivalent?
fafblog.blogspot.com/2004/09/driv...
Fafblog perfectly encapsulates the intersection of peak Bush-era War on Terror and peak weblog. Is there a 2024 equivalent?
fafblog.blogspot.com/2004/09/driv...
Don’t own a paper, so doing my endorsements here, like a plebian:
- wooly worms
- peanut butter on everything
- Kamala Harris
- snake_case
- 100% cotton pajamas
- wooly worms
- peanut butter on everything
- Kamala Harris
- snake_case
- 100% cotton pajamas
October 29, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Don’t own a paper, so doing my endorsements here, like a plebian:
- wooly worms
- peanut butter on everything
- Kamala Harris
- snake_case
- 100% cotton pajamas
- wooly worms
- peanut butter on everything
- Kamala Harris
- snake_case
- 100% cotton pajamas