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@colton.boo

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colton @colton.boo · 09/04/2026

We just released version 1.13.0 of @dagster.io with lots of great features like official Dagster skills for, virtualized assets for modeling entities like views, partitioned asset checks, and more. Check out the blog post for more details.

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colton @colton.boo · 09/01/2026

If you're a Python developer using Claude Code, or something similar, we just published a blog that covers 10 rules we add to our prompt for drastically improved code gen. And we include the full prompt at the end of the post! dagster.io/blog/dignifi...

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colton @colton.boo · 16/12/2025

We've been improving how we create educational content at @dagster.io: optimizing feedback loops, generating content for different learning styles, and leveraging LLM-powered workflows. You can find our lessons learned on the @allthingsopen.bsky.social "We Love Open Source" blog!

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colton @colton.boo · 12/10/2025

Excited to be at All Things Open tomorrow! Come hang out at the @dagster.io booth, or see my talk “Enabling education with a little help from AI” at 1:45 EST on Tuesday!

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colton @colton.boo · 22/05/2025

mpv might just be the best way to watch twitch.tv. mpv.io

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colton @colton.boo · 09/04/2025

Refactored `chatblade.nvim` to use `llm`, and renamed the project to `llm.nvim`. It's archaic compared these agentic MCP workflows, but it's completely replaced Googling programming related questions.

Screenshot of the https://github.com/cmpadden/llm.nvim repository README.

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colton @colton.boo · 21/03/2025

Tinkering with dltHub's REST API source to ingest data without having to write any bespoke code, and DuckDB's new local web UI, and I feel so spoiled with how good data tooling is getting!

Screenshot of the DuckDB's local UI and a code example using dltHub's REST source config.

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colton @colton.boo · 25/02/2025

Joe Naso and I just published an e-book covering the essential topics needed to build a data platform! Check it out if you're looking to learn more about data modeling, ingestion patterns, and common data architectures. dagster.io/how-to-build...

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colton @colton.boo · 24/02/2025

Ok, Claude Code, consider me impressed!

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colton @colton.boo · 07/01/2025

Did you know Dagster asset checks can directly access data from an asset using the built-in I/O manager. Here's a quick snippet showing how it's done!

Snippet of Dagster code showing how to create an asset_check that validates a Pandas dataframe using the built-in I/O manager.

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colton @colton.boo · 31/12/2024

Turns out it's pretty easy to render 3D models with p5js! Here's how I'm embedding models in blog post markdown with Nuxt, Nuxt Content, and p5. cmpadden.github.io/articles/nux...

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colton @colton.boo · 10/12/2024

I don't find myself using recursion too often in the day to day, so I'm pretty happy with how elegant this solution turned out for day 7--computing all combinations of arithmetic on a sequence of numbers.

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colton @colton.boo · 19/11/2024

If you fall into the niche of data engineers who use both Neovim and Dagster--I'm working on an extension to improve the developer experience! github.com/cmpadden/dag...

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colton @colton.boo · 18/11/2024

I think it was a Gateway 2000!

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colton @colton.boo · 17/11/2024

If you're looking to follow people back en masse, one way to do that is to navigate to your followers page, and paste this small snippet into your browser's console.

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colton @colton.boo · 27/10/2024

If you're looking for something cursed this Halloween. Here's how to query Dagster's GraphQL API directly from DuckDB to get asset materializations.

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