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Tweeting to say I'm no longer tweeting, find me on @smore" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mstdn.social/@smore You can also follow my blog at thisisimportant.net (and check out the about me page for other places to find me) 👋

spending my friday night deep diving into apple music api endpoint docs, various open source code for last.fm scrobbling extensions, and identifying possible data anomalies in my year of last.fm data. as one does.

Mission Local picked up four more awards tonight. Consider supporting local news. We can't do it without you. ow.ly/927P50LZ6XL

While I'm still on this cursed platform, I might as well share my deep dive into #SpotifyWrapped thisisimportant.net/posts/2022-in-…

When you give your people: - free parking - unreliable transit - streets unsafe for biking - destinations too far for walking… they’re gonna find ways to buy cars. This isn’t people saying they love driving; it’s responding to the only available option.

New bivalent has a 5-10 fold increase in neutralizing antibodies vs. the original booster. It's time to get yours. We're looking at big increases in Covid. Don't wait!

This is some next level prompt injection going on right now

@ganeshstwt Thanks!

@smorewithface Great share Sarah ✍️

Want to pay more attention to website analytics for your documentation, but not sure where to start? I wrote up my guidance for what metrics to look at, how to approach site analytics for docs, and what context to add: thisisimportant.net/posts/document…

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World map according to fish

debugging strategy: use sounds or pictures I'm still not satisfied with the examples in this one, I'd love to hear examples of how you use visualizations or sounds to debug

I'm thankful for the growing @SnowflakeDB community that continuously shows up to support each other. Since I joined in Sep'20, I've seen: - reddit.com/r/snowflake 📈 5,001 subs - 1.3m views/quarter 📈on @StackOverflow - Top db on @getdbt Slack - Top "wh" on /r/dataengineering

Wish we had better red lane enforcement @SFMTA_Muni because they’re so fast when cars don’t use them! Maybe this quick build is just due for a promotion…

If you need something long to contemplate on an upcoming flight, consider my post about whether we'll see prompt-based music generation: thisisimportant.net/posts/prompt-b…

One fundamental mistake software design teams make is behaving like they are the main character in their user's life story, and not the other way around. Design as if your user -didn't want to use your product or develop expertise -hasn't thought about your product for months