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radbrt.bsky.social
free-range data clown. Professional YAML indenteur. Writing python & sql, dreaming of Rstats and a turtle. Recovering economist. Writing for humans at radbrt.com, and for machines at github.com/radbrt. 📍Norway
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I have some colleagues in software engineering (typically Java/dotnet) who want to get into data engineering. Has anyone assembled a curriculum tailored for that audience? #dataBS

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone know the least fiddly way to get the most recent file in a bucket as a table in snowflake/dbt? Would prefer to avoid Rube-Goldberg machines. External table with partitioning seems to break with CTAS statements. #dataBS

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I used @prefect.io before I used Airflow, and I really didn’t appreciate how many problems I didn’t have. Today: running on custom docker images. I’m sure there is some convoluted way of doing this, but convoluted isn’t how I want to spend my time.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

It has been zero days since last time I thought "this change is so small I don’t need to test it" and was proven wrong. Test your code, people!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

All I want for Christmas is this but as a slack status emoji.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

You can say "stochastic parrot" as loudly as you want, I can’t hear you I’m laughing too hard.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Almost all thoughts and questions about I have had about use of social media posts explained in one enormous thread - with references. Absolutely amazing 💯

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Authenticating in the AWS cli without using access keys is one of the most confusing experiences I have had on a computer in recent years.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

After the S3 Iceberg announcement, AWS just needs to introduce an integrated S3 processing engine and they will have made a database.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Hate to admit it but the new calculator macs are incredibly responsive, and the battery time is wild. I got mine two days ago and I'm still at 50% battery.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote about the european cloud services. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are better than you would expect. No, they aren't a meaningful alternative to the big ones (yet): radbrt.com/posts/the-eu...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I know I’m getting old because I just got a new Mac and all I did was install the stuff I had on the old Mac. I thought it was going to be a blogpost, but my todo list is enough. Oh wait, there is one change: no docker, just finch.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

One of the things I will never understand is how per-thousand notation hasn’t caught on in the English language. Use ‰ not % when the numbers are small, people! Or don’t use % at all, like god intended.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry but the next person to post pictures of pies or turkeys will have to temporarily adopt me for next thanksgiving. That’s EU regulations. I can help with the dishes though.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

New "yo’ mama" joke just dropped.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Happy thanksgiving to my American friends. I celebrated one when I lived in the US over 20 years ago – the food and the mood was amazing, and it is the thing I unequivocally envy Americans.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

There are arguments about livelihood and AI that are easy to understand. But there are a lot of feelings involved, coming from an audience that has previously had very expansive views on fair use. Posting this flashback to reflect on: waxy.org/2011/06/kind...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

The thing I and others complain about with azure is Access management, which is ironic because AD is the reason anyone is using it. But GCP is for fundamentalists. Using it feels like being yelled at by an architect who presented at Qcon.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment