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Moved to @russellchristopher on bsky. The guy at GitLab. Ex Starburst Data, Tableau, Alteryx. SaaS-powered analytics, data viz, data at scale, fries, books.

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Monday morning questions for you: Which activities, if doubled, would make your life meaningfully better? Which activities, if halved, would make your life meaningfully better?
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In case you missed it, we recently launched dbt State in Preview. TL;DR: dbt State builds what changed, and skips what hasn't. It helps teams save time and compute cost. Joel Labes and Toby Mao break it down in a new blog docs.getdbt.com/blog/how-dbt…
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Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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JFK TERMINAL 8 TONIGHT WHEN THE KNICKS TOOK THE LEAD
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dbt Core v2.0 is now in alpha. We've open sourced a lot of the dbt Fusion engine's code under the Apache 2.0 license, and that shared runtime is now dbt Core v2.0. Read the blog bit.ly/4aCdRXg See what else is shipping at the live Q&A on June 25 bit.ly/4aDCqDf
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😂
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The horror.
BREAKING: Fartcoin's market cap is now greater than 38% of all American publicly-traded companies.
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I can’t believe in only three days everyone will have to instantly go from being a polling expert to an election law expert
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This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules
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CFO seeing some extra budget in the sales department
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Benioff in prime @benioff form: “We all know now that Microsoft Copilot is basically the new Microsoft Clippy.”
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Want to learn how to right-size your Trino clusters to find the balance between query failure and overspending? We've got tips for that. Or maybe you'd like to hear how Starburst Galaxy trivializes the process with autoscaling and cluster management: okt.to/i1ImrP
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Reporter: Thank you for sitting down for this inter... RFK Jr: My family and I ate Jimmy Hoffa for Thanksgiving in 1975
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new startup just dropped
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𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝟮 is available. Stop using ancient crappy data for your next demo. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆-𝘁𝗼-𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: CSV, Parquet, Delta Table, PBIX, SQL Server; from 10k to 100M orders; fresh data (2014-2024). 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 for Windows, macOS, and Linux to generate customized data distribution and/or different data volume. 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 for C# code that generates files. Read the announcement for links and details: sqlbi.com/blog/marco/2024/07…
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writing unit tests be like
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