Hey Friends!!! Save the dates: The Eyeo Festival will return June 14-17, 2022 in Minneapolis. We can't wait! Tickets will go on sale in early 2022. (If you have 2020 hold over tickets we'll contact you in mid-November with info.)

Those who can’t read Chinese might think the poem is some shitpost about beans, but it’s actually a famous poem ‘The Quatrain of Seven Steps’ / ‘七步詩’ about humankind fighting each other “we’re born from the same root, why should we incinerate each other with such importance?”

A chief danger when you're learning about a new field: Thinking you know more than you do. Or, worse, being the type of person who thinks expertise is bullshit, so just wing it bruh Which we could perhaps dub "the Fyre Festival Effect" My essay on this: medium.com/creators-hub/h…

For example, Albany forbids NYC's speed safety cameras from operating after 10PM and on weekends. Literally *52%* of every week, this life-saving tool is turned off due to state law. The consequences couldn't be clearer, as NYC DOT data shows. ➡️ www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downl…

This is not the blitz in London in 1940. But it looks a lot like it.

My latest story on urban sprawl in Canada with 3D interactive #dataviz. Made with Three.js and #r3f ☄︎. In English => ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2022/03/e… / En français => ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2022/03/e…

This is a very compelling demo! SQLite in WASM as the state engine for a reactive JavaScript application, such that if you modify rows in the database the UI automatically updates to match

NEW: I’m not sure people appreciate quite how bad the Covid situation is in Hong Kong, nor what might be around the corner. First, an astonishing chart. After keeping Covid at bay for two years, Omicron has hit HK and New Zealand, but the outcomes could not be more different.

We are excited to announce the public beta of Postgres Container Apps for your Postgres databases on Crunchy Bridge. Take a look: blog.crunchydata.com/blog/announcin…

Are you a designer interested in ML, datavis, and building tools? I’m looking for a designer to work with me at Tecton — we’re designing next generation ML platforms and tooling! Ping me if you’re at all curious! tecton.ai/careers-all/?p…

Wrote about competition ... “Antitrust” is an unfortunate anachronism from the Teddy Roosevelt era. Senator Amy Klobuchar gets it right when she calls it “competition policy.” profgalloway.com/umpires-not-ki…

this weekend, i'm putting up flyers all over Berkeley. can crowdsourced home prices beat zestimates and algos? #buildinpublic

ルービックキューブを円に変換することでわかりやすくすることに成功いたしました

Tony Chu evidence Tony Chu we now support SQLite!

In the 19th century, the german mechanical engineer Franz Reuleaux discovered the Reuleaux polygons - a curve of constant width made up of circular arcs of constant radius. Reuleaux polygons also make good manhole covers, since they can’t fall into the holes that they cover.

Prepping for my talk in London on Tuesday. Doing one of these slides for like the millionth time.