Ben

there is a rhetoric in ai rn that vibing and half-assing is the future of technology. do not fall for this psyop. the future is deep understanding and mastery. always has been

Colorado: Land of the burger 🍔

Amazing view right now of the Northern Lights from Ely, Minnesota youtube.com/live/CevQg8IoI… theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams

@KJP I spy Harry Potter! 🧙🏼‍♂️

Once you've got a good habit going, do everything you can to protect it.

The most hard-hitting 2 sentences in all of talent development research:

@eugeneyan Depending what you want to do, DuckDB.

Looking to do a lot of data munging on my 128gb laptop over the weekend. Mostly tabular and json data. What are people using now?

@ErikBootsma Those candle lanterns look awesome

When the power goes out dads spring to action. Then later read Tolkien by candlelight.

@JonnyBird @sodowntownatl Are you using @Meta glasses?

Had a lunch just north of Wooodruff Park. Here is half of the scooter ride from our designated scooter parking through @sodowntownatl.

@JonnyBird It’s amazing how it feels like you’re out in the country when you’re right in the middle of the city.

As my kids like to call “the rock way” on the Beltline between Piedmont Road and Amsterdam Walk headed to the VaHi Summer fest. 3-4 years from now this will be filled with apartments, people, retail, density, and dining! Atlanta’s future includes more e-bikes, scooters, ride-share, and the ever-increasing Waymo’s.

New DuckDB Blog Post: Maching Learning Prototyping with DuckDB and scikit-learn Have you incorporated DuckDB into any of your work with scikit-learn? If so, does it look like this blog post, or different? duckdb.org/2025/05/16/sci…

@Tim535353 Good morning Tim! ☀️

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"It is the gate which leads you to the state of mind, in which you live so close to your own heart that you no longer need a language. It is utterly ordinary. It is what is in you already. Your first, most primitive impulses are right, and will lead you to do the right thing, if you will only let yourself. There is no skill required. It is only a question of whether you will allow yourself to be ordinary, and to do what comes naturally to you, and what seems most sensible, to your heart, always to your heart, not to the images which false learning has coated on your mind." - Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

I recently encountered an interesting SQL issue. Suppose you have a CTE that assigns random row numbers. You then join that CTE to itself, referencing the row numbers two times. They should match, right? Since they're coming from the same CTE. Wrong! At least in BigQuery and DuckDB, CTEs can be evaluated each time they're referenced. Here, the CTE is re-created twice, generating different random row numbers each time. To avoid this, use a temporary table instead. Read more: bbgatch.com/projects/sql/2…

@willevanparker That's amazing!

@unclebobmartin Thanks Uncle Bob, I assume this Datalog example would be resistant to SQL injection attacks? blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017… I can see how SQL injection is an issue, and it may be worth this extra effort, but this Datalog syntax seems much more bloated and arcane than 50-year old SQL.

@bbgatch Here’s one I used last year. The representation is called Datalog. I used it with the XTDB database.

Morning bathrobe rant about SQL.

@unclebobmartin @theo No Uncle Bob! 😭

@theo SQL was never intended to be used by computer programs. It was a console language for printing reports. Embedding it into programs was one of the gravest errors of our industry.

Just learned that Uncle Bob is anti-SQL lol

Very cool!

MotherDuck Instant SQL demo 👇 cc @motherduck @matsonj