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Anglican dad, programmer, data person. An Andrew of all trades and master of none. Not popular enough to say "view are my own and not those of my employer."
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If other tools start supporting DuckLake, I will be SOOOOO happy. I think it was fundamentally a mistake for the open data lake table formats to keep metadata in many small files on an object store. #dataBS

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I just got a tar command right on the first try without referencing the manpage. Please clap.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I've been putting it off for a while, but I'm finally trying out the Jujutsu VCS tonight. Holy cow, this is fantastic! This is the most fun I've had with version control since Mercurial (RIP).

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

It looks like the MIT Technology Review did the equivalent of the dril candles post but for real open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. "I dream [of horrifically over-engineered websites, bloated with adtech, marketing, and sketchy trackers] and ask why not."

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.” God cares for the poor and the stranger, and so too should we. ⚓️

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Tired: integrate DuckDB with your data catalog. Wired: Use DuckDB *as* your data catalog. motherduck.com/blog/from-da...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

20,000 leagues below sea level is in outer space.

submitted 18 days ago • 146 comments

I think the best use for AI I can think of is to filter out content about AI online. (which would include this post - yeah, i know, irony)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again." 🧵1/4

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I'm the type of person who will literally Ctr+R then type N-1 out of an N-character command in my terminal instead of just re-typing the thing.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

One of my kids is taking a medication called "cyproheptadine," but I always read it as "cryptocurrency" at a glance.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

GitHub Copilot just "fixed" a bug by renaming a variable, and it gave a justification about how it fixed an underlying concurrency issue! 😆

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

You don't bring an LLM to a cron fight.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that elections give people the right to have power over other people is a religious belief. A false religious belief. You don't have the right to impose your religion on other people.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

After being inundated by AI-powered tools, I'm in a retro-nostalgia mood. Anyone else remember AbiWord? I wrote most of my high school and college papers with it, and it was great!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I just watched Godzilla Minus One, and I was not prepared for it being a legitimately great movie!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t fight horrible people by being horrible. That just makes you horrible, too.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

The MAHA ethos is basically a secular prosperity gospel: health is moral superiority, and if you're not healthy, maybe you don't deserve to be. Danger, Will Robinson!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hello from Greenbelt, MD, where a federal judge will hear arguments over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about what it has done to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the US. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org 🧵

submitted 25 days ago • 82 comments