Dan Goldin
dangoldin.bsky.social
Dan Goldin
@dangoldin.bsky.social
Building https://www.twingdata.com and https://www.fastpentests.com

Before this spent 10+ years in adtech engineering at https://triplelift.com.

I hopefully fix more than I break.
Annual New Year's Eve post to make sure your date formatting is correct - don't make the same mistake I did in 2018!

yyyy vs YYYY matters

medium.com/@dangoldin/j...
Java’s SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs yyyy
An example illustrates this much better than words ever could.
medium.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Want to avoid cloud infra bill surprises?

1. Start tagging everything
2. Start tracking your unit costs

Full post in comments.
December 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Snowflake's query_parameterized_hash is supposed to spot useful query patterns, but as it turns out, their rudimentary logic misses many query structures.
December 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Pretty cool - Cursor released a "bug finder" feature and I tested it out against a PR we had open. Results are pretty good. Top one was an intentional change to see if performance would suffer and the others were false flags. Surprised by how expensive it was though. The $2.38 was for +213/-116
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
With Amazon's launch of S3 Tables it's pretty obvious where we're headed
December 5, 2024 at 7:40 PM