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Three toddlers in a big data trenchcoat. | "I help people use data." | ex-AMD, ex-Indeed, ex-Cloudera “The Don Rickles of Big Data” but streaming data is my current jam. Somewhere in the mountains of Colorado Need to contact? Ping on Signal: hcoyote.83
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Pancho’s sopapillas and crispy tacos. We’d get a dozen of each on Friday evenings as a treat. Mom didn’t have a lot of money. We’d all sit in our tv room and engorge ourselves like ticks on cheap Mexican fast food. I miss those sopapillas.

NGL, I’m forever ruined by this clip for whenever someone says they’re doing prompt engineering. Though I can’t wait for the holodeck to be invented and prompt engineers get to the FO phase of their FA prompts. www.instagram.com/reel/DHl1riN...

The second hardest part of Customer Success is curtailing the urge to flippantly respond with “Bruh.” I am forever thinking about this stuffed catmonkey having an existential WTF crisis.

Speaking of using technology in anger. I spent 4 hours today, making our datadog integration work to test some new metrics features we're publishing and ... either our instructions for this are horrible, or this build system for testing an integration is trash.

Some of you look like you need a puppy photo. So here’s one delightfully enjoying snow. If this pup can survive the storm, so can we.

"Be wary of a person who has no attachments to society for they are dangerous and can do anything." ... I think as I close "All tabs to the right" on this bright monday morning.

Us: ... Google: ... Us: ... no. fuck no. Google: ... so we found the Adobe Flash source code and started blastin'.

Just got the Kickstarter notice that Simon Stålenhag's latest book, Swedish Machines should be shipping soon, and honestly, I'm looking forward to this dystopian hellscape as a reprieve from -gestures vaguely at everything- whatever this is.

Hear me out ... Minesweeper, but you're flagging AWS instances that are compromised.

What if we're already in hell, and our penance is to support Hadoop forever?