Matthew Mullins
@mmullins.coginiti.co
technologist, philosopher, and outdoors enthusiast
CTO@COGINITI
CTO@COGINITI
We just shipped a verified Coginiti node for n8n. That means you can orchestrate Coginiti catalog assets and run SQL/CoginitiScript inside n8n workflows, right alongside the systems teams actually live in like Jira, Slack, and Snowflake.
Announcing the Coginiti node for n8n
he Coginiti node for n8n makes it easy to orchestrate governed analytics workflows—run scripts and blocks, automate notifications, and keep work standardized.
www.coginiti.co
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
We just shipped a verified Coginiti node for n8n. That means you can orchestrate Coginiti catalog assets and run SQL/CoginitiScript inside n8n workflows, right alongside the systems teams actually live in like Jira, Slack, and Snowflake.
I continue to be unimpressed with the open semantic interchange (OSI) so I send messages into the void. #databs
How Not to Run an Open Standards Initiative
A clear-eyed look at how open standards fail: vendor capture, weak governance, and specs without institutions to support real interoperability.
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I continue to be unimpressed with the open semantic interchange (OSI) so I send messages into the void. #databs
Hey #databs help me out with some data collection. We've got a little survey going and I'd like to fill it up with feedback from folks that aren't already customers. Takes 5min and I'll pay you back in gratitude and like all your posts. www.surveymonkey.com/r/FSVBR9Z
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Hey #databs help me out with some data collection. We've got a little survey going and I'd like to fill it up with feedback from folks that aren't already customers. Takes 5min and I'll pay you back in gratitude and like all your posts. www.surveymonkey.com/r/FSVBR9Z
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Men should read Absolution apparently. Men men men men men. Whatever. www.insidehook.com/books/read-r...
What to Read Right Now, According to Cool Men
We talked to journalists, authors and editors about books men should read
www.insidehook.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Men should read Absolution apparently. Men men men men men. Whatever. www.insidehook.com/books/read-r...
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Anthropic to developers: Claude Code makes you more productive when building SaaS apps.
Anthropic to businesses: Our AI agents make SaaS apps obsolete.
Anthropic to businesses: Our AI agents make SaaS apps obsolete.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Anthropic to developers: Claude Code makes you more productive when building SaaS apps.
Anthropic to businesses: Our AI agents make SaaS apps obsolete.
Anthropic to businesses: Our AI agents make SaaS apps obsolete.
Lot of chatter about AI ready data and how the shape of data might be changing. It's not, but your data management skills need to be on steroids. #databs
AI-Ready Data Is Still Analytics-Ready Data
AI-ready data isn’t new—it’s analytics-ready data done right. Learn why clean models, semantics, context, and SQL pipelines matter for AI systems.
www.coginiti.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Lot of chatter about AI ready data and how the shape of data might be changing. It's not, but your data management skills need to be on steroids. #databs
Say it loud… “AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code. However, they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering.”
Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
www.fast.ai
January 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Say it loud… “AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code. However, they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering.”
I said this at the beginning of the year. Bring The Receipts! I want real numbers, not vibez
“[O]ne said the platform has made him five times more productive.”
Going to need numbers here, not vibes. I don’t care — at all — about developer feelings, about their perceptions.
If this is such a ground-shaking development where are the illustrative studies? Show me numbers.
Going to need numbers here, not vibes. I don’t care — at all — about developer feelings, about their perceptions.
If this is such a ground-shaking development where are the illustrative studies? Show me numbers.
Anthropic’s Claude Code Platform Looks Like a Software Killer
Claude Code promises to create any type of software — from analyzing specific data sets to building websites and editing photos.
finance.yahoo.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I said this at the beginning of the year. Bring The Receipts! I want real numbers, not vibez
Where did these people think they were working? They’ve got a 20yr history of leaning into some of the government’s worst programs and their CEO is a cheerleader for the present administration.
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Where did these people think they were working? They’ve got a 20yr history of leaning into some of the government’s worst programs and their CEO is a cheerleader for the present administration.
Join us for the Apache Iceberg Community Meetup, North Carolina on February 12th from 6-9:30pm. Excited to see the announcement of a new catalog of catalogs for Apache Iceberg and a history of catalogs with @zeroshade.columnar.tech!
luma.com/ffv30jod
luma.com/ffv30jod
Apache Iceberg™ Meetup North Carolina · Luma
J oin us on February 12th (Thursday) from 6:00-9:30 PM
Connect with fellow enthusiasts, share insights, and dive into the latest developments in the Apache…
luma.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Join us for the Apache Iceberg Community Meetup, North Carolina on February 12th from 6-9:30pm. Excited to see the announcement of a new catalog of catalogs for Apache Iceberg and a history of catalogs with @zeroshade.columnar.tech!
luma.com/ffv30jod
luma.com/ffv30jod
Headed to Austin for a couple of days of mgmt meetings and the great Data Day Texas conference! Looking forward to connecting with data folks irl, but first I have to compress 4hrs of slides into a digestible 30min talk. #DDTX2026
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Headed to Austin for a couple of days of mgmt meetings and the great Data Day Texas conference! Looking forward to connecting with data folks irl, but first I have to compress 4hrs of slides into a digestible 30min talk. #DDTX2026
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We fought the British over this same shit.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 10:31 PM
We fought the British over this same shit.
Early voting for the NC Primary opens Feb. 12. If you're in Wake Co remember these names...
US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social
US House: @paulbarringer.com
NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk
Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton
Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social
US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social
US House: @paulbarringer.com
NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk
Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton
Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Early voting for the NC Primary opens Feb. 12. If you're in Wake Co remember these names...
US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social
US House: @paulbarringer.com
NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk
Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton
Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social
US Senate: @roycoopernc.bsky.social
US House: @paulbarringer.com
NC Court of Appeals: Christine Marie Walczyk
Wake Co DA: Sherita Walton
Wake Co Commissioner: Mona Singh & @christinekushner.bsky.social
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It's never been easier to write software, and it's never been harder to get anyone to use it.
January 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
It's never been easier to write software, and it's never been harder to get anyone to use it.
Clickhouse raised a $400m round D, bringing their private funding in the $1.15B range. That’s pretty close to where SNOW was pre-IPO, though it looks paltry next to DBRX. They've also added a Postgres service, further cementing Postgres as the transactional system for builders (and agent builders).
ClickHouse raises $400M Series D led by Dragoneer to accelerate expansion across analytics and AI infrastructure
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse to enter LLM observability and introduces a native Postgres service to unify transactional and analytical workloads
clickhouse.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Clickhouse raised a $400m round D, bringing their private funding in the $1.15B range. That’s pretty close to where SNOW was pre-IPO, though it looks paltry next to DBRX. They've also added a Postgres service, further cementing Postgres as the transactional system for builders (and agent builders).
Today I interviewed a candidate for a sales role who had faked most or all of his LinkedIn profile. Not just exaggerations, but manufactured roles. Named dropped connections I'd be in no position to easily confirm (Satya Nadella). Oddly this isn't the first time and it's always been sales people.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Today I interviewed a candidate for a sales role who had faked most or all of his LinkedIn profile. Not just exaggerations, but manufactured roles. Named dropped connections I'd be in no position to easily confirm (Satya Nadella). Oddly this isn't the first time and it's always been sales people.
Looking to be a speaker this year, there are a bunch of great conferences with looking for speakers, but the window is closing this week.
AI (Data) Council
aicouncil.com/apply-to-speak
Snowflake Summit
www.snowflake.com/en/summit/ca...
Iceberg Summit
sessionize.com/iceberg-summ...
AI (Data) Council
aicouncil.com/apply-to-speak
Snowflake Summit
www.snowflake.com/en/summit/ca...
Iceberg Summit
sessionize.com/iceberg-summ...
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Looking to be a speaker this year, there are a bunch of great conferences with looking for speakers, but the window is closing this week.
AI (Data) Council
aicouncil.com/apply-to-speak
Snowflake Summit
www.snowflake.com/en/summit/ca...
Iceberg Summit
sessionize.com/iceberg-summ...
AI (Data) Council
aicouncil.com/apply-to-speak
Snowflake Summit
www.snowflake.com/en/summit/ca...
Iceberg Summit
sessionize.com/iceberg-summ...
There are lots of tools for data quality floating around out there, but you could be leveraging your existing data platform rather than some third-party compute platform to run those tests. Here is a guide for moving your Great Expectations tests to native SQL: docs.coginiti.co/reference/gr...
Coginiti Actions Reference | Coginiti Documentation
Complete reference for Coginiti Actions configuration syntax and options.
docs.coginiti.co
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
There are lots of tools for data quality floating around out there, but you could be leveraging your existing data platform rather than some third-party compute platform to run those tests. Here is a guide for moving your Great Expectations tests to native SQL: docs.coginiti.co/reference/gr...
Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir
January 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir
Tyler Childers long violent history never felt more appropriate
Tyler Childers - Long Violent History (Official Audio)
YouTube video by TylerChildersVEVO
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Tyler Childers long violent history never felt more appropriate
In software engineering we have blue-green deployments, but in data it's write-audit-publish, or if you've got real data quality problems, audit-write-audit-publish. Both patterns can be implemented as data testing strategies using CoginitiScript. docs.coginiti.co/tutorials/wa...
January 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
In software engineering we have blue-green deployments, but in data it's write-audit-publish, or if you've got real data quality problems, audit-write-audit-publish. Both patterns can be implemented as data testing strategies using CoginitiScript. docs.coginiti.co/tutorials/wa...
In 2025, too many congratulated themselves on AI progress using the wrong measures. Lines of code added. Pull requests opened. Teams saying they “feel faster.” Those are activity metrics that we long considered junk. They are easy to inflate, easy to celebrate, and largely meaningless.
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 AM
In 2025, too many congratulated themselves on AI progress using the wrong measures. Lines of code added. Pull requests opened. Teams saying they “feel faster.” Those are activity metrics that we long considered junk. They are easy to inflate, easy to celebrate, and largely meaningless.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
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December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is going to do wonders for LoC metrics!
Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills.
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is going to do wonders for LoC metrics!