Nick Canzoneri
nickcanzoneri.com
Nick Canzoneri
@nickcanzoneri.com
Database/Search infrastructure at Datadog, ex-GitHub

https://nickcanzoneri.com
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Tired: Be gay and do crimes

Inspired: Be gay and move to Philly

Profile of @corinnelow.com by @zoegberg.bsky.social 🎁🔗
Her path to ‘having it all?’ Be gay and move to Philly, a Wharton economist says.
In her new book "Having It All," Corinne Low uses data to explain the pressures on women and how to resolve some of them.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Had a great time at Barcamp Philly #bcphilly yesterday and meeting new people and seeing folks I haven't seen in quite a bit.

Biggest thing I'm excited to explore is www.joinphilly.com for IRL communities/clubs
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
At #bcphilly today, community is back!
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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...But at every intersection along South Broad, five or six Philadelphia police officers - who were waiting in frigid temps to conduct crowd control - gathered around one officer's cell phone, watching the game, and hooped and hollered as the Eagles advanced.
February 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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go birds
February 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Might have to get a Barkley jersey #gobirds
January 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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You know what people hear when you say this? Especially other men who are less powerful than you? That the status quo is inevitable, and they shouldn't bother sticking their neck out to change it. That those who care are suckers, weaker than you tough guys.
But what I hear is your own weakness.
January 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I'm increasingly pissed off at men in leadership positions posting here that companies backsliding on DEI etc is inevitable, and treating people who are angry about it as naive children. All you are showing is that you are a leader who either a) doesn't care or b) lacks the guts to fight against it.
January 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
😭😭😭 debí tirar más fotos #dtmf never thought that bad bunny music would be making me cry so much
January 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hey! I've been jealous of NYC, DC, and other locales having a Systems meetup group.

So, I'm looking to start one for Philly in early 2025:

phlsystems.xyz

There's an email signup form on the website to get more info when it comes out!
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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So hey, maybe it’ll help somebody. About eighteen months ago, I found out I had breast cancer. I got a phone call and I sat there and said the right things and hung up and sat in my car and just had cancer for a bit.
I feel rather horribly calm. It’s like finding out that a cancer came back. “Ah. This again. I see.”
November 6, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Greetings from #srecon EMEA! Let's try the old Twitter thing of liveblogging all of the conference. One thread for each day, with today being day one. Let's get started!
October 29, 2024 at 8:45 AM
👋 Re-introduction post! Hey, I'm Nick, an engineer in the Philly burbs working on database + search infrastructure. I've worked a bunch with Postgres, Elasticsearch, MySQL.

Currently I'm working on internal storage platforms at Datadog, focusing on Postgres.
October 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo

watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw
October 27, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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I spun up a new LLM benchmark: how well can they handle this prompt?

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

I find the results so far utterly delightful: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/
October 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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Working on a databases starter pack: go.bsky.app/7mG8msu
October 22, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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this is one of the coolest things I have seen in such a long time
you’ve probably seen some posts but it’s true and it’s official: the transfemme style lookbook I have worked on for two years is finally available for preorder. www.carrarabooks.com/store/we-des...
February 27, 2024 at 5:17 AM
The “we’re finding kids from around the globe to play in the NFL” ad isn’t as cute as they thought
February 12, 2024 at 1:40 AM
In the most Philadelphian thing I’ve done recently, you can just go to the water ice factory and pick up a few gallons. At $8.95/gallon it’s pretty cheap too
August 8, 2023 at 12:51 AM
Found some of my wife’s culture at the Art Museum today
July 23, 2023 at 2:56 AM
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, debugging python installs
July 17, 2023 at 11:42 PM
Society if we admitted that lobster tastes bad
July 6, 2023 at 9:22 PM
So excited for sad dad summer music
May 18, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Rober de Niro having a new baby is so wild. Imagine Joe Biden had a 1yr old.
May 18, 2023 at 2:07 AM
Constantly relearning that all the PRs I make at 11pm really fucking when I look at them at 11am
May 10, 2023 at 4:43 PM