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colton @colton.boo · 09/07/2026

It was great to join @christianminich.com in this webinar. He shared a lot of great insights in how he's using AI for data engineering.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 19/05/2026

I wrote an Almanack like Charlie Munger and Naval Ravikant did, but about life wisdom and my time of using Dagster for data orchestration over the years. Since using it in 2018, the story has gone from complexity to composability and from orchestrating to a full data platform.

The Dagster Almanack highlights data orchestration, composability, and governance with icons and structured layout.

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colton @colton.boo · 09/04/2026

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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 · 10/02/2026

Learn how we built a light weight evaluation framework for the official Dagster skills. With short feedback loops and quantitative measurements, we were able to make quick improvements that improving decision routing and context management. dagster.io/blog/evaluat...

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Measuring the effectiveness of the Dagster Skills

Learned how we built a light weight evaluation framework for quantiatively measuring the effectiveness of the Dagster Skills

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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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All Things Open @allthingsopen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀 How can a small team answer 16,000+ community Qs/month? Colton Padden (@colton.boo) reveals Dagster’s smart AI-powered doc strategy—built for humans and LLMs. allthingsopen.org/articles/sca... #WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #AI #TechDocs #Dagster #CommunitySupport

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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 · 07/11/2025

So excited for this to be available! 🚀

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/11/2025

“Flexibility without fragmentation” In addition to some solid alteration, it’s also a great explanation of how to build a data team and how your system can and should scale. @colton.boo and Dennis Hume have an awesome new ebook on this topic, check it out! #dataBS dagster.io/how-to-scale...

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How to Scale Data Teams | Free eBook from Dagster

Download Dagster's free eBook to learn how to build systems that scale with clarity, reliability, and confidence.

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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 · 08/08/2025

@ssp.sh this might be relevant to your interests!

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 28/07/2025

Read this post you work in data analytics. A similar mindset problem pervades sales engineering as well, especially in the demo / early stages of discovery. Understand your prospect’s context. Who are they? What do they care about? What value can you provide them? That’s what you show.

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colton @colton.boo · 17/06/2025

MotherDuck is live now! DuckLake & The Future of Open Table Formats ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen www.youtube.com/live/yn07s-_...

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DuckLake & The Future of Open Table Formats ft. Jordan Tigani & Hannes Mühleisen

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colton @colton.boo · 04/06/2025

Agreed, what a great watch / listen!

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colton @colton.boo · 23/05/2025

New Oxidise Your Command Line just dropped. Some that stand out to me are: xh, fselect, and presenterm! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWMQ...

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Oxidise Your Command Line (2025 Edition)

YouTube video by No Boilerplate

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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 · 17/05/2025

@pycon.us might just be my favorite conference ever. everyone is so nice!

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colton @colton.boo · 05/05/2025

Whoa, that's neat! 📷

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 02/05/2025

I'm writing about #opentableformats. With the newest entries of AWS S3 tables and Cloudflare R2, it's interesting to reassess the market and see where the future with managed Iceberg Tables leads us. What's your take? And anything missing on the evolution below?

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colton @colton.boo · 21/04/2025

It’s surprisingly easy using FastMCP: github.com/jlowin/fastmcp We’ll likely refactor this code not to use subprocess, but you can see our initial implementation here! github.com/dagster-io/d...

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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 · 03/04/2025

The dream! Best of luck.

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colton @colton.boo · 03/04/2025

I sat down to chat with Chris about "Project Airlift", a way to easily observe Airflow environments directly from Dagster. With a couple of lines of code, you can get a holistic picture into all of your environments, and then optionally migrate them!

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dagster.io @dagster.io · 01/04/2025

🚨 New Course Alert 🚨 We are pleased to announce that the new "Testing with Dagster" course is now live on Dagster University. dagster.io/blog/dagster...

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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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dagster.io @dagster.io · 13/03/2025

🚀 Want to preview the brand new `dg` cli, and a framework for building and working with YAML DSLs built on top of Dagster called "Components"? You can find a link to demo videos and a GitHub discussion in the thread!

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colton @colton.boo · 26/02/2025

Ha, I don't know if I'd recommend my extension to people, it's not very polished. But it's cool that you tried it! My usage of it is often writing a comment with a prompt, selecting it and typing `:Chatblade` or making a selection with additional prompting like `:Chatblade convert these to...`.

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colton @colton.boo · 26/02/2025

Very nice! Glad to see you had a good experience with it too.

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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

In this video I'm using tmux with a split of nvim on the left, and claude code on the right. For my day-to-day, I've been using a wrapper for the chatblade cli that I created: github.com/cmpadden/cha... I've been meaning to tinker with avante, but haven't done so yet!

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colton @colton.boo · 24/02/2025

Ok, Claude Code, consider me impressed!

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colton @colton.boo · 13/02/2025

There's definitely a learning curve, but once it clicks it's very nice. Using one of the pre-configured frameworks can get you up and running quite fast: www.lazyvim.org Whereas I've spent 10 years tinkering with dotfiles aimlessly, heh.

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🚀 Getting Started | LazyVim

LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by 💤 lazy.nvim

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

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colton @colton.boo · 08/02/2025

I’m hoping for the same thing!

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colton @colton.boo · 03/02/2025

Come join us if you’d like to learn more about LLM routing from experts in the field!

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 29/01/2025

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

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colton @colton.boo · 27/01/2025

The exact same thing happened to me!

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/01/2025

As someone who works at an open core company similar to Preset / Superset, this post really resonates with my experience. Buying a “hosted version of an open source library” made by that libraries creators has more benefits than “just” the hosting. preset.io/blog/running...

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Running Apache Superset on the Open Internet: A Report from the Fireline

Running Apache Superset on the open internet requires sophisticated solutions to security and performance challenges. Here we explore how to navigate these challenges while keeping data safe (or opt o...

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🐥pdrm🐣 @pedramnavid.com · 23/01/2025

docs.dagster.io

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colton @colton.boo · 23/01/2025

I'm really proud to share that the new Dagster docs are live; what an effort!

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colton @colton.boo · 23/01/2025

This is a great resource covering the tools you need as a data engineer!

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colton @colton.boo · 16/01/2025

Loved this discussion between @barrald.bsky.social from Hex and @pedramnavid.com from Dagster on the data ecosystem, and the impact of AI on the work of data engineers and analysts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxD...

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Friends of Data: Pedram Navid, Chief Dashboard Officer at Dagster

YouTube video by Hex

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