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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 14h

I've heard Other Mommy was bad. I can confirm that it is true and encourage others to not spend the time on it. 📽️

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 14h

It is 3 hours long and i would sit through it again several times, honestly.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 16h

I'm echoing almost everyone right now but it is really a must see. Psyched for your verdict.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There may be a better term but metric seeking here means: the reported number is 1.5 and the stakeholder asks "i'd like to tell the client it is at least 5, how can we do that?" And the math that follows has to meet the arbitrary goal.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I need a primer on how to kill metric seeking behavior in orgs. An unrelenting need to have good news for clients and execs hides the actual work of making things better.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hozier waiting for the bus: Take me to work

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Having now seen Digger, I totally get why marketing that movie was hard. Pretty weird, extremely cool time.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Thank you Satoshi" is written in sharpie on the bar taps.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vibes are extremely straight

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Chopped cheese was not great

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Google Maps led me to a bar in dc with an apparently good chopped cheese but it turned out to be a crypto themed bar

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That movie convinced me to drink way more milk as a kid

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Camp Miasma is so so good though

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Left wall follower, right handed

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My job requires me to generate reports for other companies across a few industries. It's funny that some places only want pdfs of data. Like... I really hope you aren't typing this stuff in manually.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stirring some shit at my company because my semantic layer -> SQL agent is writing better queries than the historical SQL context -> SQL model we are currently using

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had a dream that I ate a stick of Plugrà butter

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Need to have some kind of ERD to visually explore the model.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vibecoded the gui. User requests data, agent reads Ossie model as context, returns semantically valid query for user review & can be run against redshift tables with df presented to user.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Y'all remember data mesh

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got back around to this today. It's now a 600 line yaml file and the agent is pretty good at writing semantically valid sql. Wish Cube was Ossie compatible - craving a gui to play around the model with

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm still not over how people thought Kendrick Lamar's Damn wasn't enough and were convinced that there would be a second album drop immediately after. This album is an all timer

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Automated voice at cvs: "Customer service needed at deodorant" Capitalism has created hell on earth

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I now have a good workflow to identify the worst queries of the last week, get their execution plan, and generate suggested improvements.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Love the raygun documentary for the extremely sympathetic view of her and her partner. It's really fine for people to do badly at things.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ah this movie is so so good

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every bar plays good music if you wear headphones

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Going to see what implementing Ossie semantic spec does for our agentic analytics. Right now we are a tableau shop but unwilling to pay for tableau semantic/data360.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Amazing how much a slow database kills the flow of analytics work.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I hate when SQL is all Select `customers`.`name` as `name` from `customers` `customers` Gross as hell

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Going and encouraged my team to join!

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Future analysts will need some sql skills, programming taste, an understanding of the analytics stack, a strong grasp of what effective data visualization is, and the irreplaceable people skill of coaching people through the emotional journey of numbers rising and falling.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think I'm still figuring out what the role of the analyst is in the future. Ad hoc requests against gold databases will be handled by agents. Unanswerable questions could be passed to humans who then build out capabilities for the agents to answer them. I'm very bearish on Tableau

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My team is moving to pilot agent interfaces with our gold database backed by a good amount of historic queries and team documentation as context. We are skipping the semantic layer. We'll see if that's wise.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Until recently my inclination was to not trust LLMs with data summaries. Now, I think it's mostly fine if a. your data size is very small, b. you don't ask for it to do math (eg. calculate percentages), and c. your metrics & dimensions are defined well in the prompt.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My team's current analytics: Python & SQL stored in Github run in Airflow, presented in Tableau or emailed reports, with some adoption of AI in dashboard summaries & emailed performance wrapups.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reacher is a pretty bad show but I love entertainment with a premise like "what if a guy was huge"

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Love that stadium, arch in the distance no better baseball imo

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wild accent choice, such a fun movie

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Likewise wasting time being upset over clankers discourse is so funny

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe I'm unable to take some issues of our time seriously but spreadsheet people was hilarious

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mfw a stakeholder tells me what number they want to be able to say the KPI is and for me to find a granularity at which it meets that number

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Redshift why do you reorder the field and the modifying parameter? To_date(iso_date_str, "yyyymmdd") but date_trunc('month', date_col). Fix yourself.

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Natural Smoke Flavor can go to hell

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I use Jupyter daily at work mainly for ad hoc analysis or at the exploration stage before converting to a py file for prod implantation. Always down to talk data!

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This stuff scratches my brain so nicely, I get ya

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tbh my brain short circuits when I hear basis points

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tech support chat is just people requesting more token allowance

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Miles @corndog.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Evil Dead Burn does the job for an Evil Dead flick. The camera work is especially strong this time around. 📽️

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