data.potato.engineer - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Hell yeah 🚜

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I turned 30 today! Had some excellent Persian food and some Karak chai and a ras malai cake for dessert. All my favorite things ☺️ This sweatshirt was my gift from my SO. That's my dog's face 🥹 It matches the painting his sister got me 2 years ago!

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

It seems the democratic party is down to one single competent individual with a backbone. One won't be enough for the fight ahead, where are the rest?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Update... rejected 😩 Any sponsors able to help me attend? Small co problems -- no conference budget 😢 #dataBS

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I am in DC. I am trying to fly home. The airport is in shambles and all flights are being delayed? Un-delayed. Delayed? I have rebooked my whole trip (with a layover I would have missed) once and now my new trip is in the exact same situation. Will I make it home tonight? Stay tuned to find out.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I have to fly into the eye of the storm (Washington DC) tomorrow. Please wish me luck and manifest excellent air traffic control coverage for me.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

My sympathetic nervous system has reached its threshold for the ability to react appropriately to the fresh new horrors each day.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

There is no task that cannot be accomplished by putting 100 gecs on loop

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t know about you all, but it’s been very hard for me to be fully present in my daily life when the foundation of our democracy is cracking as we speak. Last week I was in the middle of writing 2 blogs but I find it absolutely ridiculous & irrelevant in the midst of what we’re living through.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

I have been #deFAANG -ing my life over the past two weeks and I strongly encourage everyone to do the same.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If you are still posting on (X)itter just know you have lost my respect. You can no longer turn a blind eye to the harm that app's CEO is causing to our society and expect it to be OK.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I bake, cook, can, sew, crochet, repair cars, garden, do general construction, plumbing, electricity (solar), rain water harvesting and sanitation, and small livestock husbandry…all outside of my day job as a data professional. I’m not worried for me. I’m worried for everyone else.

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Any thoughts: For coordinating saving vanishing data in #dataBS #openData and #rstats rescue actions, ideas are: -online form run by trusted party - bluesky thread or hastag being scrapped every few hours & results aggregated to GitHub repo Both ideas need a coordination tag like #dataRescue ...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

They're scrubbing climate change from federal websites, too. "By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark...”

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can

submitted 26 days ago • 119 comments

#DataSky If you don't know what's going on today, govt data sets are under attack and entire sites are coming down, removing extremely important data from public access. This is it, data folks. This is our domain!! Let's get archiving! I'll be over at @catalyst.coop writing scrapers, hbu?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I don't get how some product people aren't embarrassed when they flat out refuse to do something technical or say it's "beyond them". All I suggested was writing some yaml. Like, try??? You can try, right?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Note to self: don’t fly into SFO

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

There should be a way to publicly report job postings for advertising severely underpaying salary ranges. Saw a PRINCIPAL level in NEW YORK advertising a top end at $20k below my current (Senior level, same role) salary. Absolutely unreal. The people need to know not to waste their time.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

YESSS I have been waiting for this 🙌

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Literal worst nightmare scenario for a data person happened at work today Product/eng team AND revenue team AND data team (me) all spent individual effort and weeks of work to produce the same exact view/reporting table. Of course they don't match. Even my skip-level was bamboozled. #DataBS

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Absolutely inundated with books suddenly ready for checkout on Libby that were SUPPOSED to be spread out over the next 3-6 weeks. Aaaahhhhhh I will get nothing done for weeksssss

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Everything is stressful, so let's FIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T MATTER! Here's something to get us started: There's actually no such thing as "the best" pizza. Pizza comes in all different forms, and it's all valid.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

So today the power went out in our area. It also took out the LTE/5G data somehow. We were completely cut off from the Internet and could only send SMS for a couple of hours. It was disturbing how quickly our minds went to nefarious intentions on the part of the government...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

While they’re rounding up a list of DEI hires or canceling DEI programs, are they giving the same scrutiny to nepotism hires? Hiring of friends or college buddies? Hiring the kids of friends? How about the hires who were given a chance because “they’re a good culture fit”?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Humidity is at 4% right now. FOUR PERCENT. I have never experienced anything like this before. I went outside to walk my dog and it was painful to breathe the air.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

What are y'all working on for fun and fulfillment? I'm distracting myself from gestures wildly the current state of this country with my next couple bus projects. Thinking of rewiring our lights with a 3-way dimmer switch and a second on/off control by the couch/bed area. #skoolie #busbuild

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

The internet has become such a minefield. It is so hard to know what is safe or who to trust anymore... until they do something atrocious. I have purged myself of several accounts this weekend. Thankful that this little corner is still a safe haven. Hopefully it lasts 😣

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I have (whether it was a good idea or not) consumed media from sources across the political spectrum today. I am disgusted with how cruel and mindless the average person has become. While I alone cannot make world change, I will do my part to be kind to those of you I can. That's all I've got.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

More darning adventures! Machine-darned my favorite jeans this time. The thigh rub area (ladies know how it is). I swear this thread was a perfect color match on the spool 😅 it's a little pale on the fabric but hopefully eyes aren't drawn to my crotch too much because of it #darnit #clothingrepair

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Its so disturbing how unraveled we've become. Inclusivity is not wrong. DEI is not the problem. Climate change is real. Just I can't grasp where were at today. Just blows my mind how horrible it is out there.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

submitted 40 days ago • 313 comments