Christian Minich
@christiannolan.bsky.social
Dad, data, process, philosophy | Sales Eng @dagster | My wife says my headstone will read “sorry I’m late”
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Data people starter packs, parts 1 and 2. Gotta follow them all!
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Listened to the new Lily Allen album today so I don’t need to go to therapy for like 6 months
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Listened to the new Lily Allen album today so I don’t need to go to therapy for like 6 months
Why is there a ceiling for data analyst career ladders?
In software engineering there is a concept of a “staff+ “ role that is still an independent contributor, but isn’t on the people management track.
Data Engineering and to an extent analytics engineering have this type of role.
#dataBS
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In software engineering there is a concept of a “staff+ “ role that is still an independent contributor, but isn’t on the people management track.
Data Engineering and to an extent analytics engineering have this type of role.
#dataBS
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November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Why is there a ceiling for data analyst career ladders?
In software engineering there is a concept of a “staff+ “ role that is still an independent contributor, but isn’t on the people management track.
Data Engineering and to an extent analytics engineering have this type of role.
#dataBS
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In software engineering there is a concept of a “staff+ “ role that is still an independent contributor, but isn’t on the people management track.
Data Engineering and to an extent analytics engineering have this type of role.
#dataBS
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Trying again to join a Discord and damn I feel like an Old
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trying again to join a Discord and damn I feel like an Old
“Flexibility without fragmentation”
In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale.
@colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out!
#dataBS
dagster.io/how-to-scale...
In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale.
@colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out!
#dataBS
dagster.io/how-to-scale...
How to Scale Data Teams | Free eBook from Dagster
Download Dagster's free eBook to learn how to build systems that scale with clarity, reliability, and confidence.
dagster.io
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“Flexibility without fragmentation”
In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale.
@colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out!
#dataBS
dagster.io/how-to-scale...
In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale.
@colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out!
#dataBS
dagster.io/how-to-scale...
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Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.
Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.
Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.
Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.
Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.
Reposted by Christian Minich
Reposted by Christian Minich
What we know so far, 8:30pm
—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What we know so far, 8:30pm
—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.
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Learn English the Hard Way.
Software Engineers have had to learn to write code and understand the fundamental architectures despite extensive frameworks that obfuscated those core principles for decades. And those engineers create beautiful and effective software.
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Software Engineers have had to learn to write code and understand the fundamental architectures despite extensive frameworks that obfuscated those core principles for decades. And those engineers create beautiful and effective software.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Learn English the Hard Way.
Software Engineers have had to learn to write code and understand the fundamental architectures despite extensive frameworks that obfuscated those core principles for decades. And those engineers create beautiful and effective software.
1/2
Software Engineers have had to learn to write code and understand the fundamental architectures despite extensive frameworks that obfuscated those core principles for decades. And those engineers create beautiful and effective software.
1/2
No grumpier person than a parent the day of daylight savings
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No grumpier person than a parent the day of daylight savings
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Me: The least-helpful workshops are often the ones given by people who just Know Too Much 🥹
Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this?
Me: No, show me!
Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂
#rstats #python #databs
Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this?
Me: No, show me!
Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂
#rstats #python #databs
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Me: The least-helpful workshops are often the ones given by people who just Know Too Much 🥹
Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this?
Me: No, show me!
Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂
#rstats #python #databs
Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this?
Me: No, show me!
Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂
#rstats #python #databs
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
I made a Slackbot that uses a LLM-backed knowledge search to make our sales engineers’ lives easier, and now our sales reps can ask it questions and SEs respond with a “good bot” or a “clanker” emoji reaction
So when the robots come to purge us all, you’re welcome
So when the robots come to purge us all, you’re welcome
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I made a Slackbot that uses a LLM-backed knowledge search to make our sales engineers’ lives easier, and now our sales reps can ask it questions and SEs respond with a “good bot” or a “clanker” emoji reaction
So when the robots come to purge us all, you’re welcome
So when the robots come to purge us all, you’re welcome
Large tech companies doing serious, speculative R&D across the frontier of manufacturing, robotics, and AI is Good, Actually
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Large tech companies doing serious, speculative R&D across the frontier of manufacturing, robotics, and AI is Good, Actually
What (SFW!) emoji are you too embarrassed to ask the intent behind when people post them?
😅 is a big ?? from me and I just nod along
😅 is a big ?? from me and I just nod along
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What (SFW!) emoji are you too embarrassed to ask the intent behind when people post them?
😅 is a big ?? from me and I just nod along
😅 is a big ?? from me and I just nod along
👀 sqlfluff go brrr
"This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase."
#dataBS
github.com/sqlfluff/sql...
"This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase."
#dataBS
github.com/sqlfluff/sql...
Release [4.0.0a1] - 2025-10-28 · sqlfluff/sqlfluff
Highlights
This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase. In particular to verify that publishing to pypi works as expected, and that users can...
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
👀 sqlfluff go brrr
"This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase."
#dataBS
github.com/sqlfluff/sql...
"This is an alpha release of SQLFluff 4.0 to begin verification of the rust portions of the codebase."
#dataBS
github.com/sqlfluff/sql...
Guy who never adds a Slack profile picture
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Guy who never adds a Slack profile picture
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
There were the cool kids who had Rock Band in my college dorm and man was it fun playing “when we were young” and a million other hits on it.
Loved the trip down memory land for Guitar Hero on Version History @davidpierce.xyz
Link: overcast.fm/+ABRo_apMZTY
Loved the trip down memory land for Guitar Hero on Version History @davidpierce.xyz
Link: overcast.fm/+ABRo_apMZTY
Guitar Hero: Everybody’s a rock star — Version History
Millions of basements have fake plastic guitars in them thanks to the 2005 smash hit Guitar Hero. Chris Grant and Ash Parrish join David Pierce to rock out with a game created over a matter of months ...
overcast.fm
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There were the cool kids who had Rock Band in my college dorm and man was it fun playing “when we were young” and a million other hits on it.
Loved the trip down memory land for Guitar Hero on Version History @davidpierce.xyz
Link: overcast.fm/+ABRo_apMZTY
Loved the trip down memory land for Guitar Hero on Version History @davidpierce.xyz
Link: overcast.fm/+ABRo_apMZTY
“I think there is so much space for a slam dunk experience, there is so much space for massively leveling up how people perceive your tools when attention is spent at the boundaries of things.”
Incredible interview with @juliasilge.com on her management / leadership style, strongly resonates w me
Incredible interview with @juliasilge.com on her management / leadership style, strongly resonates w me
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“I think there is so much space for a slam dunk experience, there is so much space for massively leveling up how people perceive your tools when attention is spent at the boundaries of things.”
Incredible interview with @juliasilge.com on her management / leadership style, strongly resonates w me
Incredible interview with @juliasilge.com on her management / leadership style, strongly resonates w me
so much depends
upon
a good night’s
slumber
eyes deep glazed
over
the weekend plan
scrambled
upon
a good night’s
slumber
eyes deep glazed
over
the weekend plan
scrambled
October 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
so much depends
upon
a good night’s
slumber
eyes deep glazed
over
the weekend plan
scrambled
upon
a good night’s
slumber
eyes deep glazed
over
the weekend plan
scrambled
3 year old legit devastated that his Link costume doesn’t come with a metal sword
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
3 year old legit devastated that his Link costume doesn’t come with a metal sword
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I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM