I just wandered back in this cess pool to look something up. I made a few comments and got a bunch of immediate interaction. 75% of it from spam goblins like this:

Ph.Demetri I am definitely the newbie here.

Python won because JD Long is now @[email protected]'s advice won johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/2… @johndcook

Jacob Matson A. Jordan Nafa This will be one of the few times a year I share this from JD Long is now @[email protected] 😂:

twitter.com/CMastication/s…

An analyst just said to me, “I think prayer is rubber duck debugging for non-code problems”

And now I’m considering starting a new religion.

mastodon.social/@Cmastication/…

My wife asked my daughter to clean up the kitchen after dinner and the kid crosses her arms and says, 'You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do this?' And I gotta tell you, bourbon burns coming out my nose.

Midjourney is broken. I spent half the day trying to generate a smart looking advisor for our new ai integration and it just gives me permutations of JD Long is now @[email protected]

Did you know VSCode can not only do regex replacements, but change case in the process?

I had a bunch of two-word camelCase variables and had to change them to snake_case. They always came after a certain string.

Find: (?<=a certain string [a-z]+)([A-Z])
Replace: _\l$1

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Them: you can’t run THAT in production!

Me: give me your functional definition of production

Them: <someshit>

Me: you realize you by that definition you have hundreds of excel workbooks “in production” right?

Them: <heavy drinking commences>

Y’all know which third part tools have been killed on Mastodon?

None.

Hey y’all 👋

I’m mostly over in Mastodon-land these days. I find the lower level of outrage to be really cathartic. If you’re around there, I’d love to connect.

mastodon.social/@Cmastication

For a while now my list of Actually Good Software has had just four entries:
1. Postgres
2. Sublime Text
3. AWS SQS
4. Jenkins

Today I'm adding a fifth:
5. DuckDB

high fives all around

It turns out if your product is useful and easy to use folks fall over themselves to talk about it. I love that folks think this is a marketing team effort. When your brand strategy is usefulness the marketing nearly takes care of itself.

“I like the term ‘Data Scientist’ for now. I expect that term will be meaningless in 5 years.” — @cmastication, November 2011

johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/2…

If you aren't aware of O'Reilly's online books/tutorials library , it's the best $400 you can spend on full access to an almost unlimited number of tech books.

(I am surprised that so many people don't know this already)

#art

Compiled some notes from V (formerly Vicki) 's NormConf 🚿 . Some incredible talks/info. Some of my favs came from Vincent D. Warmerdam Jeremy Jordan JD Long is now @[email protected] Katie Bauer Caitlin Hudon James Kirk Brianna McHorse, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

mhartz25.github.io/blog_hugo/post…

Normconf was amazing. It won't be happening again, but I think there are a ton of great takeaways for people planning online events. Wrote some of them up here. vickiboykis.com/2022/12/22/eve…

In our most recent ep, JD Long is now @[email protected] and Hugo Bowne-Anderson is podcasting again talk about data science & the nitty gritty of decision-making under uncertainty, heuristics for decision science, failure modes, and more!
vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/16
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