Seth

Congrats! Can relate🫠. Had an issue this year where one of the Chargebee tables was causing all other tables to take 10x longer to sync / miss SLAs. Unfortunately it was a table we used, so we had to deselect it, then configure a whole ‘nother connector for just the one table

a man in a trucker hat says " dayum " ALT: a man in a trucker hat says " dayum "

initial reaction to coding with Gemini 3

Companies that host everything on-prem right now

This week I learned that a lot of people interpret ‘indefinitely’ to mean ‘infinitely’

“Turning a no-hitter into a no-winner” - Kevin Brown 🤌

Jeremy Schaap calling the Nathan’s hotdog eating contest after the cancellation of Outside the Lines is a pretty good metaphor for whatever it is that’s been going on in this country in the last few years

The Deel/Rippling thing has got me thinking about a former coworker that I think could have been a saboteur from a competitor.

They disrupted a massive system migration, disappeared into the wind, and there is no trace of them on the internet

This was actually a pretty insightful response from Morey during an interview on @pablo.show, and they immediately joked that it would be aggregated into clickbait like this smh

Would be quite a black swan event

The timing of Nate Silver’s most recent book on risk is kinda astonishing

Our whole lunch table (maybe eight 11-year-olds) staring at the assistant principal with a straight face without breaking eye contact for a prolonged period.

Got lunch detention for a month, inexplicably unsupervised and with the same friends, so it was really a reward

Perfect analogy because a shirt with an extremely long table full of timestamps would go hard

DuckDB, give yourself two pats on the back

Maybe in 2025 we can aspire to pause the graphics of all financial markets being down during the NYE fireworks?

Data engineering conspiracy theory:

Opening Snowflake’s query profile triggers a ~secret~ compute accelerator that completes long-running queries before you need to dig into the execution plan

Pelican notwithstanding, the handlebars flipping broke my brain

I have been chosen

Got into a nice flow state this afternoon, but lost it when I looked out the window and saw my neighbor digging a hole with a large knife

Macy’s Discovers Employee Hid Millions in Delivery Expenses The department store chain said it had found the erroneous accounting entries while preparing its results for the third quarter.

Safe to say Macy’s doesn’t do blameless retros

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Potentially the best remote-work team-building money can buy