Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Though that’s 16GB of VRAM, if you’ve only got 16GB of RAM… that’s tough. 030 3
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 models are fairly good on 16 GB, if you load up one of the quantized models. It’s no Opus 4.8, but good enough for side projects where you need a hand with boilerplate or syntax and understand the problem space. 130 3
Reposted by Alex BarbeauHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 01/02/2026dig if you will this picture 71247241 1.2K
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It’s amazing, though depending on your use case keep an eye out for baffling DNS issues if you have subnet routers and normal nodes on the same LAN. 110 1
Reposted by Alex BarbeauFriends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 21/01/2026BREAKING: The House passed H.J. Res. 140—stripping protections from the Boundary Waters and handing 225,000 acres to a Chilean mining corp. The Senate is our last chance. 📞 Call: (202) 224-3121, say "Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140." Final stand. friends-bwca.org/get-involved/take-legislative-action 59995 99
Reposted by Alex BarbeauIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/01/2026He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States 12724244 724
Reposted by Alex BarbeauJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 24/10/2025I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling. 5444 44
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 14/09/2025It’s just one packet, how much can it cost?media.tenor.coma woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .Alt: a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man . 030 3
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It’s pretty nice, and you can use PowerShell to call it, but don’t because omg the escape characters become hell on desktop. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Or making peace with rephrasing “but what problem does this solve” 1-5x daily for the rest of your career 000 0
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Love to see announcements on SPN and CLI support! Nerds rule! 000 0
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Thrilled to see the #MicrosoftFabric keynote by Amir Netz! 100 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 30/03/2025On the way to #fabcon2025! See me at booth 217 and my co-speaking slot Wednesday afternoon! 000 0
Reposted by Alex Barbeauyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 02/03/2025congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany 3152821595 5.3K
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I don’t know if Herbert intended it this way but I think he’s trying to show a plot equivalent to the objective correlative concept for character’s emotions. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Yes, but also… some of the book is meant to play with the impacts of seeing the future, but imperfectly. And seeing how different characters act with partial information. 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 22/02/2025The lulz. I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 20/02/2025There are a crazy amount of protocol drivers and such in there, so guessing some DB’s ODBC/JDBC/etc. got bigger. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Don’t forget Kusto storage for Real Time Intelligence! 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The simple version is public, that book has way more details than other sources. This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals: www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...sqlbi.comCosts of Relationships in DAX - SQLBIThe relationships in a data model queried by DAX are a fundamental part of the engine and simplify the query itself. This article examines the cost of relat 000 0
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Actually I’ll just put them here. Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12. 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Sure thing! I’ll DM you some technical book references shortly. 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Forgot to point out this doesn’t apply for CCI in SQL Server or Synapse, just the read heavy analytics focused implementations of VertiPaq. 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Another thing to note is that VertiPaq handles joins through pre-computed hashmaps (called relationships) that are rebuilt anytime a table in the join changes. The hashmap sits in the CPU cache and this avoids regular join perf concerns. Another read-focused design choice. 110 1
Reposted by Alex BarbeauDana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I will continue to protect my friends and framily. 8369121141 6.9K
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 23/01/2025At least it vaguely means something, unlike the advertising world madness of calling adtech “programmatic”some years back. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I expect it has wider usage than Goals at least 120 2
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I welcome the many improvements to the tech stack… describing architectures settled before I was born as new concepts less so. 120 2
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Oh lord another star schema term being “rediscovered” by software people dealing with data? 230 3
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I presume this another feature that a very large customer insisted was absolutely vital to their adoption and without which they wouldn’t use Power BI. Or is used internally by the service for some reason and they released it publicly because why not. 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 14/01/2025media.tenor.coma man with a mustache stands in front of a sign that says cyber mondayAlt: a man with a mustache stands in front of a sign that says cyber monday 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The output is the output as is made clear in the output. 000 0
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 13/01/2025One has to be a bit daft to succeed in data engineering 110 1
Reposted by Alex BarbeauMina Markham @minamarkh.am · 09/01/2025Software engineers of the world, I beg you. Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields. Sincerely, Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager. 752114328 2.1K
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Without alignment from the new acquisition’s internal DNS team we simply can’t determine an enterprise standard for server names or tags. 100 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Nah gotta have 30 meetings about tags and tag approvals and tag meetings and then do nothing because cross functional alignment wasn’t tagged. 120 2
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Where the screens are green and the UI is sh*tty 000 0
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Scrolling past this I read it as a jimmy carter bot adding yet more layers of doom 010 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 31/12/2024DirectQuery over Dremio Cloud on top of Iceberg files. 120 2
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 31/12/2024In an unexpected end of the year twist, I learned and helped tune a new open source query engine for a customer, and made a Steven Universe joke about the process that made sense in context. Consulting is great. 130 3
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 15/12/2024There’s your first mistake, thinking Microsoft can name things clearly 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 15/12/2024V-ordering is VertiPaq-Ordering, inspired by Z-ordering, which is just a description of a representation of a single to multi column grouping algorithm. Liquid clustering is also a thing. 100 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 12/12/2024That’s the neat thing, you can see all the eventhouse data in regular OneLake delta tables! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...learn.microsoft.comEventhouse OneLake Availability - Microsoft FabricLearn how to turn on KQL Database data availability in OneLake. 110 1
Alex Barbeau @alexondata.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Have the C# application synthetically send rows to an eventstream, then an eventhouse? 200 2
