Joel Labes
@joellab.es
I don't know how to be data driven and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
DX at dbt Labs | Wellington NZ 🥝
DX at dbt Labs | Wellington NZ 🥝
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Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people
Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev
Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people
Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev
The Majority Of Your Users
The majority of your users don’t read your changelog.
The majority of your users only upgrade to new versions when forced to.
jacobtomlinson.dev
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/t...
Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people
Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev
Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people
Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev
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Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in.
But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map.
My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters
But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map.
My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters
October 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in.
But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map.
My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters
But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map.
My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters
Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work
www.theverge.com/column/79101...
www.theverge.com/column/79101...
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work
www.theverge.com/column/79101...
www.theverge.com/column/79101...
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and
September 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and
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When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week
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I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program.
Ever.
Ever.
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program.
Ever.
Ever.
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Blog Writing for Developers rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b...
Blog Writing for Developers
Writing is one of the most powerful forms of communication, and it’s useful in a multitude of roles and contexts. As a blog-writing, documentation-authoring, twitter-shitposting DevEx engineer I…
rmoff.net
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Blog Writing for Developers rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b...
Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books
Orange telephone lets goooooo
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Orange telephone lets goooooo
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Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...
The Cost of Costing Nothing
The emotional labor of reading your Chat
databased.pedramnavid.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...
Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl
The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.
The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.
August 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl
The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.
The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.
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A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
clauswilke.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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different day, same internal struggle
August 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
different day, same internal struggle
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"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation
August 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation
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This is a banger post going into the details of JetBrains' hyper-focused single-line code completion model newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-f...
(As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)
(As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...
newsletter.vickiboykis.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
This is a banger post going into the details of JetBrains' hyper-focused single-line code completion model newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-f...
(As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)
(As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)
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June 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
there are hot* singles** in your area***
*unexpected
**items
***bagging area
*unexpected
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TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum".
E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol
Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum".
E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.
June 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.
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One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you
June 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you
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oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh
June 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh
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Just when you thought the OTF fuss had died down and you could get on with using Iceberg (ok ok, or Delta), DuckDB goes and puts the cat (duck?) amongst the pigeons with DuckLake: rmoff.net/2025/06/02/d...
#dataBS
#dataBS
Digging into Ducklake
rmoff.net
June 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Just when you thought the OTF fuss had died down and you could get on with using Iceberg (ok ok, or Delta), DuckDB goes and puts the cat (duck?) amongst the pigeons with DuckLake: rmoff.net/2025/06/02/d...
#dataBS
#dataBS