Dan Chaffelson
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Dan Chaffelson
@chaffelson
Real-ish Time Data Analytics guy Author of #NiPyAPI and other automations




Should I use a Date or DateTime? Should I store it in UTC? What is ISO8601? What's the best timezone database? Working with dates, times, and DateTimes in databases can be... stressful. Here are 10 tips to make it less so 👉 tbrd.co/datetimes





Everyone I know is switching to Claude Artifacts as their daily driver. ChatGPT a lot less sticky than everyone thought.








Tinybird has the best engineering support in the world right now! At @papermarkio, we use Tinybird for recording millisecond-accurate views to documents and provide real-time analytics for our customers. In April, we had over 9,000 views on documents and our Tinybird bill was $350 🤯 Based on our growth rate, we would be doubling our bill in May. This would absolutely ruin our business. 😰😰 I reached out for help in the @tinybird Slack and @chaffelson responded offering to jump on a call with me. I was surprised. I thought they might offer a discount or just shrug it off. I'm sure Papermark is an insignificant customer compared to their enterprise clients. No, Dan spend over one hour with me on a video call. He was so excited to optimize our queries and I was blown away by the results! In May, we had over 13,000 views on documents and our Tinybird bill was $7 If you a building real-time analytics products, starting out and not using @tinybird, your life is harder than it should be.









