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initial reaction to coding with Gemini 3
a man in a trucker hat says " dayum "
ALT: a man in a trucker hat says " dayum "
media.tenor.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Companies that host everything on-prem right now
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This week I learned that a lot of people interpret ‘indefinitely’ to mean ‘infinitely’
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“Turning a no-hitter into a no-winner” - Kevin Brown 🤌
September 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Jeremy Schaap calling the Nathan’s hotdog eating contest after the cancellation of Outside the Lines is a pretty good metaphor for whatever it is that’s been going on in this country in the last few years
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
April 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Deel/Rippling thing has got me thinking about a former coworker that I think could have been a saboteur from a competitor.

They disrupted a massive system migration, disappeared into the wind, and there is no trace of them on the internet
March 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This was actually a pretty insightful response from Morey during an interview on @pablo.show, and they immediately joked that it would be aggregated into clickbait like this smh
76ers president Daryl Morey explained how his team uses A.I. models in decision making.
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The timing of Nate Silver’s most recent book on risk is kinda astonishing
March 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Our whole lunch table (maybe eight 11-year-olds) staring at the assistant principal with a straight face without breaking eye contact for a prolonged period.

Got lunch detention for a month, inexplicably unsupervised and with the same friends, so it was really a reward
February 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
DuckDB, give yourself two pats on the back
duckdb.org DuckDB @duckdb.org · Jan 10
New blog post by @a13x.bsky.social:

Vertical Stacking as the Relational Model Intended: UNION ALL BY NAME

Alex takes us on a journey that includes a 1969 Ford Mustang, the not-too-successful SQL keyword "CORRESPONDING", and some cool DuckDB features.

Read more at duckdb.org/2025/01/10/u...
Vertical Stacking as the Relational Model Intended: UNION ALL BY NAME
DuckDB allows vertical stacking of datasets by column name rather than position. This allows DuckDB to read files with schemas that evolve over time and finally aligns SQL with Codd's relational model...
duckdb.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Maybe in 2025 we can aspire to pause the graphics of all financial markets being down during the NYE fireworks?
January 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
December 29, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Data engineering conspiracy theory:

Opening Snowflake’s query profile triggers a ~secret~ compute accelerator that completes long-running queries before you need to dig into the execution plan
December 9, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I have been chosen
December 9, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Got into a nice flow state this afternoon, but lost it when I looked out the window and saw my neighbor digging a hole with a large knife
December 6, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Safe to say Macy’s doesn’t do blameless retros

nyti.ms/3Or3DOb
Macy’s Discovers Employee Hid Millions in Delivery Expenses
The department store chain said it had found the erroneous accounting entries while preparing its results for the third quarter.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Potentially the best remote-work team-building money can buy
it's obviously not fun but i love the energy of a late night devops incident huddle
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM