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Joel Labes
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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 🥝
This your Halloween outfit?
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"Ask" as a noun
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Both kids snuggled up and fell asleep for an hour in the big bed and it was cute as hell
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Separately, I'm also digitising many old family photo albums and exiftool has been great for setting location/date/comments. There's something delightful about vibecoding a custom GUI wrapper to a 20 year old Perl script.

So yeah, really leaning into the Dad In His 30s stereotypes.
August 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Deleting most of the EXIF tags fixed it up, so my best guess is that the Mac photos app sorts by one date tag when available, but always displays a different one in the UI.

Also some time zone offset shenanigans, of course.

Anyway thanks to exiftool and duckdb for your support
August 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Reposted by Joel Labes
"'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
Sounds very prag-matic
July 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM