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I regret to inform us that it turns out the alternative is “just straight up” bsky.app/profile/emil...

09.03.2026 01:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The other week I was roasting how finance folks say “up and to the right”, but I guess j actually like that better than “up, pretty much asymptotically so”

09.03.2026 01:28 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Same! It never felt a bit haphazard and not fit to any problem I had, but this was a bit of an aha moment

08.03.2026 17:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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236: Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson Podcast Episode · Test & Code · July 30, 2025 · 20m

Sidebar but this podcast had some really elegant workflows for `git stash` in testing scenarios that had never occurred to me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

08.03.2026 13:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know.

You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”

07.03.2026 16:41 👍 329 🔁 45 💬 30 📌 9

This is almost the exact spot (~right behind Lyric Opera) where I am just gob-smacked some days on my commute what a beautiful city we have

06.03.2026 01:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby

Exact meter, exact message

05.03.2026 13:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your git content is truly spectacular!

04.03.2026 10:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We will use the wild strategy of anonymizing ourselves by being so eminently relatable that we seem like everyone all at once

04.03.2026 00:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They don’t know what they’re missing!

03.03.2026 22:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A pink and blue graphic reading "apply for our opportunity scholarship to posit::conf(2026)."

A pink and blue graphic reading "apply for our opportunity scholarship to posit::conf(2026)."

We are covering 40 people's travel, lodging, and registration for posit::conf() this fall! If you are from a group that is underrepresented in data science or open source, please consider applying for the Opportunity Scholarship—we'd love to have you join.

posit.co/blog/apply-t...

03.03.2026 15:17 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
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Funny to see progressive disclosure as an "agentic design pattern" when, friends, that's literally just good comms. I swear by Bottom Line Up First for any professional information sharing

Bonus link to my fav Quarto hack for doing this in analytics-heavy work www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...

03.03.2026 03:02 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Did WaPo's mass layoffs include all their pricing folks or what?

Pay monthly netting ~$26/yr or upfront at $40/yr 🤔

01.03.2026 20:22 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This from @petridishes.bsky.social is brilliant, and should be made into a documentary.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

01.03.2026 01:58 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

"Anonymous accounts massively profited from absurdly well-timed bets on geopolitical events" is absolutely guaranteed and recurrent of a news story as news anchors reporting about Thanksgiving travel delays

01.03.2026 01:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm intrigued by the example in this specific screenshot, tho. I would think the best practice would be to only import needed packages not the omnibus tidyverse, so it's interesting to see code reviewer give opposite advice!

28.02.2026 16:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tangentially relevant, but I find myself referencing your posts so often on your explorations with local LLMs and recommended system set-ups. Thank you so much for sharing your insights!

28.02.2026 16:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Independent news media needs a "financially support us but we promise to not tempt or enable you with access to any premium ungated content" tier for those of us that appreciate the mission but are absolutely maxed out on content

28.02.2026 15:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a moment in every data engineer's career when they discover they can query a 10GB Parquet file on their laptop in seconds.

That's the DuckDB moment.

It changes how you think about what requires a cluster and what doesn't. Spoiler: most things don't.

ssp.sh/blog/enterp...

27.02.2026 13:45 👍 53 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

This was a fantastic, honest episode! Hard to imagine a group that clearly cares more about the craft of ergonomic tools than Astral, so really interesting perspective on what agentic coding both gives but takes away

28.02.2026 10:54 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think few things have impacted my technical comms skills (such as they are) more than before-times Twitter.

Amazing to discover how much you can communicate in as few characters as possible! Felt like a game then but really a useful life skill

26.02.2026 23:06 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Tired: Logistic regression

Wired: Pregenerative AI

25.02.2026 07:40 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Great roundup — thanks for sharing!

25.02.2026 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GitHub - melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies: A list of policies by different open source projects about how to engage with AI-generated contributions. A list of policies by different open source projects about how to engage with AI-generated contributions. - melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies

Just saw Leah W. share this on LinkedIn - great round-up of AI contribution policies! By @melissawm.bsky.social

github.com/melissawm/op...

25.02.2026 06:07 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

You know, if we wanted to do something about this, I know a logo we could seize.. 😅

25.02.2026 10:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want to see the claw Technical mastery still matters

Rereading this excellent post by @vickiboykis.com, "I want to see the claw", in a world where "OpenClaw" exists 😭

vickiboykis.com/2025/10/20/i-want-to-see-the-claw/

25.02.2026 07:49 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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This should be a much bigger story. Kegseth is essentially saying he wants to use the Anthropic software to commit war crimes and will therefore not agree to be bound to well established US and international law rules. Outrageous.

24.02.2026 23:49 👍 363 🔁 228 💬 17 📌 35

😢 Had me all excited!

24.02.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chicago area data chat? 👀👀👀

24.02.2026 19:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh the too tight ones are definitely cursed! But from necessity comes innovation 🤩

23.02.2026 01:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0