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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 02/10/2026

This is what makes automation so hard. Writing the code isn't the problem, it's finding an interface that allows you to complete a task, or query the state of the world so you can determine the next step.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

The hacking tools the chatbot companies are developing stand to carry on this very stupid tradition. It *is* scary, but not because the chatbots are waking up. It's scary because the world's IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities: xkcd.com/2347/

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Reuven M. Lerner @lernerpython.com · 02/08/2026

How much memory does a #Python list use? sys.getsizeof will tell you, sort of: It reports the memory used by the list, but not its elements: >>> import sys >>> x = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50] >>> sys.getsizeof(x) 104 >>> x[0] = 'abcdefghij' * 100_000_000 >>> sys.getsizeof(x) 104

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/04/2026

Turn Sound UP. Go WayBACK. DANCE, Hampster, DANCE ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19990423...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/04/2026

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 11/04/2026

“Software's like Egyptian pyramids: millions of bricks, no structural integrity, done by brute force and 1000s of slaves.” #AlanKay queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 27/12/2025

People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/12/2025

howcomplexsystems.fail

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 20/11/2025

Cloudflare outage was due to a small change. Azure outage was due to a small change. Amazon outage was due to a small change. Please, tell me again how details don't matter in software engineering.

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Daniel Slutsky @daslu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just a reminder - please register to Macroexpand-2025 (free): scicloj.github.io/macroexpand-... We'd also appreciate your help sharing it broadly. #Clojure #scicloj #data #AI

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Macroexpand 2025

Clojure online conferences by Scicloj - October 17-18 & 24-25, 2025

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Counterfeit Waah @counterfeitwaah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The amount of times i had people look at me funny when I get excited for a different error message. "Why are you excited, it's still broken." "Yes, but the problem changed meaning we're starting to narrow down what's actually wrong."

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 15/09/2025

We can only perceive software systems through tools. This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering. And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/05/2025

Vim is the original escape room

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 30/03/2025

Ever been curious about how to make your data science workflow faster, more reliable, and less annoying? Check out Clojure's data science stack. There's a free workshop targeted at people new to Clojure coming up May 10, fill out this survey if you're interested: scicloj.github.io/blog/data-an...

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Data analyis with Clojure - free workshop, May 10th - initial survey

Following the maturing of the Noj toolkit for Clojure data science, we are planning a free online workshop for people who are curious to learn the Clojure language for data analysis. Please share this...

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

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Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says

The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/01/2025

sifting through submitted applications for phds & postdocs for the accountability lab & it breaks my heart to see a huge proportion of applicants are steeped in EA, long-termism, & other scientifically hollow ideologies…most think “AI safety” is THE paradigm to correct much of the industry’s ills 1

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 10/01/2025

Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable. But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 09/01/2025

Almost everything in data is probably older than you think: Relational Database (1973) SQL (1974) MOLAP (1970s) Spreadsheet (1978) MPP Database (1984) ETL/ELT (1980s) Data Warehouse Architecture (1988) ROLAP (1990s) Semantic Layer (1992) Columnar Database (1995) #databs

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 07/01/2025

New year, new job? Coginiti looking to add account managers and sales engineers with experience in the data and analytics space. Atlanta area preferred, but not a hard requirement for the right candidate. #databs

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Careers

See current openings for working at Coginiti.

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Tony Sloane @inkytonik.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A nice guided walkthrough by @tudorgirba.com of using Glamorous Toolkit for problem exploration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssEo... #gtoolkit

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HGGW 23: Exploring the dependencies between C# projects

YouTube video by Glamorous Toolkit

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 08/12/2024

being a network engineer

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

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Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page

Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems

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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 24/11/2024

Anything in a software system can be seen in multiple ways. Actively choosing the perspective can accelerate how you answer questions about the system. For example: how did a file evolve? Looking at commits tells you when/who changed it. But: did the file grow? A new perspective answers better.

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

46 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot. WKRP's Les Nessman was on the scene that fateful day.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 22/11/2024

The lines are very blurry between software engineering, data engineering, data science, data analysis, business intelligence and new things like “MLops”, “AI/ML engineering”, “data governance engineering”. It makes it hard to coherently communicate about working with data right now. #dataBS

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A Snarky Grandpa (Bruce) @asnarkygrandpa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Who else thinks that buying banned books as presents is a great idea this year?

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