CL Kao
clkao.bsky.social
CL Kao
@clkao.bsky.social
Founder, Data, Civic Tech
Reposted by CL Kao
Data Renegades is officially live. 🚀

We are a new podcast exploring the reality of data engineering, AI, and open source, without the vendor sales pitches.

We just dropped our first 3 episodes. 🧵👇
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I'm in an episode of the new Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson talking about data journalism and Datasette and related topics - it's a fun conversation, here are some extracted highlights simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/26/...
Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson
I talked with CL Kao and Dori Wilson for an episode of their new Data Renegades podcast titled Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison. I fed the transcript into Claude …
simonwillison.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
finally got around to experiment with some vibe coding! I here’s my first impression with bolt, cline, and windsurf.

it turns out working with data systems was already a lot like vibe coding, but manual.

open.substack.com/pub/clkao/p/...
Vibe Coding in 2025: First Impression
And how data development workflow vibes too
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Hello Bluesky. The sky was blue today so I might as well try it out!
February 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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One of my favorite things that I did in the old place was curate a list of Data Librarians.

#datalibs are one of my favorite communities, and I hope this starter pack can help us find each other again in this new place.

Please reply or DM me with more folks to add to the pack!

go.bsky.app/DPpUuPm
November 9, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Want to contribute to an open dbt analytics project?

We just launched #TodoFEC, an open data project using #USCampaign finance data to test and compare data tools & frameworks.

Find out more:
github.com/DataRecce/To...

#data #analytics #dbt #dataengineering
GitHub - DataRecce/TodoFEC: A standardized data project using the US Election Campaign Finance dataset to create a 'TodoMVC-equivalent' for comparing data processing frameworks.
A standardized data project using the US Election Campaign Finance dataset to create a 'TodoMVC-equivalent' for comparing data processing frameworks. - DataRecce/TodoFEC
github.com
October 30, 2024 at 8:20 AM