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@ssp.sh this might be relevant to your interests!

Read this post you work in data analytics.

A similar mindset problem pervades sales engineering as well, especially in the demo / early stages of discovery.

Understand your prospect’s context. Who are they? What do they care about? What value can you provide them? That’s what you show.

DuckLake & The Future of Open Table Formats ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen YouTube video by MotherDuck

MotherDuck is live now!

DuckLake & The Future of Open Table Formats ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen

www.youtube.com/live/yn07s-_...

Agreed, what a great watch / listen!

Thanks @christiannolan.bsky.social!

YouTube video by No Boilerplate Oxidise Your Command Line (2025 Edition)

New Oxidise Your Command Line just dropped.

Some that stand out to me are: xh, fselect, and presenterm!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWMQ...

mpv might just be the best way to watch twitch.tv.

mpv.io

@pycon.us might just be my favorite conference ever. everyone is so nice!

Whoa, that's neat! 📷

Open Table Format Evolution

I'm writing about #opentableformats. With the newest entries of AWS S3 tables and Cloudflare R2, it's interesting to reassess the market and see where the future with managed Iceberg Tables leads us.

What's your take? And anything missing on the evolution below?

It’s surprisingly easy using FastMCP:

github.com/jlowin/fastmcp

We’ll likely refactor this code not to use subprocess, but you can see our initial implementation here!

github.com/dagster-io/d...

github.com/cmpadden/llm...

Screenshot of the https://github.com/cmpadden/llm.nvim repository README.

Refactored `chatblade.nvim` to use `llm`, and renamed the project to `llm.nvim`. It's archaic compared these agentic MCP workflows, but it's completely replaced Googling programming related questions.

The dream! Best of luck.

I sat down to chat with Chris about "Project Airlift", a way to easily observe Airflow environments directly from Dagster.

With a couple of lines of code, you can get a holistic picture into all of your environments, and then optionally migrate them!

🚨 New Course Alert 🚨

We are pleased to announce that the new "Testing with Dagster" course is now live on Dagster University.

dagster.io/blog/dagster...

dlthub.com/docs/dlt-eco...

Screenshot of the DuckDB's local UI and a code example using dltHub's REST source config.

Tinkering with dltHub's REST API source to ingest data without having to write any bespoke code, and DuckDB's new local web UI, and I feel so spoiled with how good data tooling is getting!

🚀 Want to preview the brand new `dg` cli, and a framework for building and working with YAML DSLs built on top of Dagster called "Components"?

You can find a link to demo videos and a GitHub discussion in the thread!

Ha, I don't know if I'd recommend my extension to people, it's not very polished. But it's cool that you tried it!

My usage of it is often writing a comment with a prompt, selecting it and typing `:Chatblade` or making a selection with additional prompting like `:Chatblade convert these to...`.

Very nice! Glad to see you had a good experience with it too.

Joe Naso and I just published an e-book covering the essential topics needed to build a data platform!

Check it out if you're looking to learn more about data modeling, ingestion patterns, and common data architectures.

dagster.io/how-to-build...

In this video I'm using tmux with a split of nvim on the left, and claude code on the right.

For my day-to-day, I've been using a wrapper for the chatblade cli that I created:

github.com/cmpadden/cha...

I've been meaning to tinker with avante, but haven't done so yet!

Ok, Claude Code, consider me impressed!

There's definitely a learning curve, but once it clicks it's very nice. Using one of the pre-configured frameworks can get you up and running quite fast:

www.lazyvim.org

Whereas I've spent 10 years tinkering with dotfiles aimlessly, heh.

Matthew Mullins on LinkedIn: Data modeling is very important for any number of reasons, but much of the… Data modeling is very important for any number of reasons, but much of the discourse on data modeling focuses on the shape of the date. How easy is it to…

I think this is one of the most important books data people could be reading right now, especially if you need to work language models which need all the semantics they can get.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

I’m hoping for the same thing!

Come join us if you’d like to learn more about LLM routing from experts in the field!

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.

From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!