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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 29/09/2026

2016: open-plan offices are increasingly being segmented into focus zones and “active” zones. 2026: open-plan offices are essentially rush-hour train stations because we all need to work from the office, but every ****ing meeting is hybrid.

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Jon Hamm: Excellent Job, Gabriel! (Good Omens)

Alt: Jon Hamm: Excellent Job, Gabriel! (Good Omens)

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 28/09/2026

Pro tip from a fellow germaphobe: closing the water tap with your hand nullifies all the benefit of washing your hands. Use your paper towel or your arm instead. You’re welcome.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 21/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 08:00 UTC+1 Shubhangi Goyal on Power BI dashboards - models, DAX and performance tuning. 09:00 UTC+1 Bas Land on building medallion architecture in Fabric. www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 16/09/2026

I swear, I’m not making this up. I just saw someone using their laptop to shield them from the rain. This is why businesses buy cheap hardware for their workforce.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just for once, I’d like to see one of these super-rich crypto bros handing over £36 million to Great Ormond Street, or cancer research, or food banks and housing charities, because they want to make the world a better place and help its most vulnerable people. But instead…?

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 11/09/2026

It's Friday! Remember to deploy all your changes to prod before leaving work.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 11/09/2026

If you thought corporate cringe was bad, wait until you see it presented with AI-generated music.

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Pam Beesly's Disappointed Look in The Office

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 07/09/2026

My most recent client has an actual art exhibit featuring lots of well-known Swedish painters and sculptors throughout their offices. But I think this creation is a masterpiece in its own right.

An Apple II computer with two floppy drives, a 5.25” disk, and manuals. Purchased by the company in ’86 and used until it had to be retired because of the millennium shift.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 07/09/2026

Me: clicks "Delete and don't notify organizer" in Apple Calendar Mailbox notification: "Your email was undeliverable."

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Failed Nope

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 06/09/2026

Did you know: when you hover your mouse over a column header in an #SSMS resultset, it shows you the datatype of the column:

Hovering over a column header in SSMS, the tooltip says "Issued_date datetime2(0)"

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 02/09/2026

Ladies and gentlement, sales in the AI age.

Spam email: Subject line "Bathroom renovations x Structured Concepts AB"

Goes on to note that we are a "Stockholm-based team" and some copy-paste text from my homepage or LinkedIn".

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Call for Data Speakers @callfordataspeakers.com · 27/08/2026

Call for speakers: Fabric February 2027 sessionize.com/fabric-february-2027…

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/08/2026

I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/08/2026

Woo! @eightkb.online is tomorrow! Five amazing in-depth mind-melting sessions from expert speakers...Registration is still open and as always, completely free. Come join us tomorrow @ 13:00 UTC eightkb.online

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 16/08/2026

These two organic spy drones snuck in through my balcony door when I was out getting coffee.

Two juvenile sparrows hovering mid-flight, trying to find a way out of my home office.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 16/08/2026

”Your password does not meet the complexity requirements.” My password:

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Funny kazakhstan journalist talk meme

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 15/08/2026

Want to watch a great movie? The 2001 Coen brothers masterpiece "The Man Who Wasn't There" is a dark and underrated film noire, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini and an up-and-coming Scarlett Johansson. 10/10, no notes.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The barista, handing me my drink just now: “Enjoy.” Me, turning away: “You too.” I was so sure I was going to be wished a nice day. It was the kind of unearned certainty that has toppled despots. Couldn’t adapt. So I invited her to also enjoy my drink. The image of it harasses me as I walk toward

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 01/08/2026

This is hands-down the best music video ever created. Pretty decent song, too.

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Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 01/08/2026

"... with secret schemes on fast track timescales, cooked up by faceless individuals and of dubious benefit to the game. We must identify those responsible and hold them to account." Even for someone who doesn't care at all about football, these are interesting times. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

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Panicopipoca3d: Man in 3D Glasses Eating Popcorn

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Allan Hirt @sqlha.com · 31/07/2026

My new album, Not Live at Budokan Volume I, is out today and ready for you to stream or purchase. linktr.ee/allanhirtjazz

Album art for Allan Hirt's new album Not Live at Budokan Volume I

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 30/07/2026

Got my 2026-2027 #mvpbuzz award glass ring in the mail today, along with a blue 5-year ring. It even came with easy-to-read assembly instructions.

MVP Award glass statue with one piece of glass for each year since 2022. In the background, Swedish assembly instructions.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 28/07/2026

In my experience, AI demos around #PowerBI can be presented as magic which can be frustrating and feel disempowering. I want to know how it works and why. At Power BI Next Step I will be providing an all day training with hands-on labs where you use AI to solve real problems.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 26/07/2026

I saw The Odyssey today. I’ll give it a 4/5, because it could have been about 30-60 min shorter. Stellar acting and story. Pro tip: if there are two theaters next to each other, and one of them is screening the 70mm analog hipster version, go for the digital one and have half the venue to yourself.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 22/07/2026

If you need an excuse to have pie, today is Pi approximation day (22/7, for those of my friends who are date format challenged). Celebrate as appropriate.

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Alexander Arvidsson (he/him) @alexanderarvidsson.se · 21/07/2026

My MVP award just renewed for year nine. I should feel celebratory. Instead, I'm thinking about how the community that gave me everything is changing faster than I can describe. We built the library. Someone else started charging admission. www.arcticdba.se/posts/the-li... #Mvpbuzz #Community

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 20/07/2026

Just removing the EXIF tags from your photo does not 100% prevent people from figuring out where the picture was taken. There's a whole Internet community of "geo-guessers" who compete in finding real-world locations using only a photo. Fascinating example:

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you can never hide.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Remember to purchase WinRAR

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 17/07/2026

When my local Lidl suddenly stocks some Rösti, I’m ready and I set my heist in motion.

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Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · 12/07/2026

Tick, tock. It you want to go to Edinburgh, Scotland in October, your window is closing fast. I just submitted a couple of sessions last-minute (sorry, Abhi).

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

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