My Tesla got a software update. Now it thinks windshield fluid is rain and automatically downgrades autopilot each time I clean my windshield.

Thanks.

One thing nobody told me about getting older is how much time you spend thinking about databases.

Lots to love in this release - especially if you work at an Enterprise™️

Audit logs, GitHub Enterprise support, and admin APIs.

We also shipped a 10x (!!!) Magic Chart speed up 📈🚀

“Yeah, we want to implement a DAG factory so the data engineer only fills a yaml and then…”

Today I’m excited to share a little about the new company I’ve been working on:

Gestalt is the best way for businesses to deeply understand people.

In many ways, I view Gestalt as a Human Data Interface — a new kind of tool that reimagines how we think about data as humans,

Motif is descended from Kerry’s work! This sunburst visualization was turned into a self-service tool (used throughout Google) by my co-founders, and it was the very first viz we built.

Being curious enough about your product and users to invent new tools is inspiring.

» corporate_shill activate

If you use:

• Terraform
• Permifrost
• Schemachange
• or dbt post-hooks/macros

for Snowflake you absolutely hate it, I want to talk

I am looking for a few folks to pilot the pre-release Titan Github Action

DM me

It’s not about the benchmarks, it’s about sending a message

There is some confusion about my meaning, so let me write yet another thread expanding on it that most people replying won't see.

I don't just mean in the sense of 'it's an indie game, fuck it, if it works, ship it'.

I mean in the sense that this is stylistically correct. (1/n)

👀

Day 1 at the Titan office

I used to stress about this too (still do to some degree), but mostly came around to Paul Graham’s view on this from one of his essays paulgraham.com/know.html

The most unexpected part of YC was meeting people with weird anti-YC opinions with no real basis in reality.

“I don’t know what they teach you in YC, but…”

… and they follow up with some basic, consensus view on how startups should be built.

yearly reminder

everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

worst part of living in the bay area is you’ll be having a perfectly beautiful dinner with your wife and then the table next to you will start talking about mongodb

god I love sql

My local urgent care hired one of those sign spinner guys

We are so back

Btw we’re hiring a data scientist to do science on all this data

You want to work with a data eng team as cracked as ours