Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026Damn. I put a sociologist in charge of monitoring server health, and now I'm looking at the Gini coefficient of our response latency. 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Had to let my rubber duck go. It has been replaced by AI. 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026A friend and I jokingly call LLMs "Lemmings" for ease of pronounciation. Today we walked through the crowded city talking about lemmings, and it must have sounded bizarre. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026I was lucky I set it up with a local model, but I also suspect a better model would just have responded "I need more info" instead of long ramblings for each line. 100 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026Forgot to use !multi when pasting into @simonwillison.net's `llm` CLI tool, and the output was fascinating. Gemini4 evaluating every line in isolation, wild hallucinations and even switching to cyrillic at some point. 150 5
Reposted by HenningMark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The economic angst many Americans feel has much to do with how the economic pie is being divided. From WWII to Y2K, workers received close to two-thirds of the pie, while capital received the other one-third. 15212 52
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026Depresssingly plausible theory in @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s book: Literacy is declining (possibly because we only read tweets), and we are transitioning to an oral culture. And oral cultures are signified by… all the hallmarks of the last 10 years. 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026Love to swap genders in ads/music etc. Today’s example from TV ads: Woman sells everything her boyfriend loves: funny. The opposite: horrible. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026I realize I might be overly sensitive to shopping bag designs. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026Not drunk enough to tweet in German yet. Sorry. I’m working on it. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026It is kind of sad that getting drunk and programming some shit is now just getting drunk and Clauding some shit. It just isn’t the same. And Claude is usually sober. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026Boston Labs: it turns out a pack of our humanoid robots escaped and robbed a liquor store while we weren’t looking. Elon: our new humanoid robots will soon be able to fire a handgun, the second amendment is important for robots too. 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026Lost my posting privileges in r/dataengineering because I called Medallion meaningless. 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 02/08/202680% of the world’s music recommendations are for one-armed indie performers self-publishing bongo/ yodel fusion, while the remaining 20% of recommendations are for Taylor Swift. 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026Finnes Facebook gruppen «Vi som vil ha Kalmarunionen tilbake»? 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026The lesser known biblical story of Jonah, Jennie and the whale. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026Copilot just gave me the phrase "I am a tractor and I regret nothing". I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess what context that statement makes sense. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026Discovered that the platform I used to rent out my boat is run by some <30 year old kid and my gut reaction probably illustrates why we don’t have nice things in Europe. Also, the complete lack of investment in the platform is telling. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026This is what happens when you don’t let it talk about goblins. 070 7
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026Remember the kids at the end of the pandemic who had 4 jobs, all remote, and cycled them as they got caught? I wonder what that would look like today, with good LLMs. 000 0
Reposted by HenningDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The most obvi- Oh for heaven's sake. Just stay away from lighthouses, okay? 3074198 741
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026He’s just a businessman, treating the government like a business. A frequently desired trait in US elections, and a horrifying thought in Europe. 100 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026My online bookstore suggests I might like a book on Yugoslav avant-garde music from 1945 to 1991, and I have no idea if that is meant as an insult. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026My wife keeps complaining that I don’t use my life insurance enough. 100 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026Got a marketing email that said Fivetran just shipped dbt Core 2.0 and I’m disgusted. No way this ends well. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026"No one cares until you’re rich" hoodie goes nicely with the street art, and catches the current mood. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026The businessman president, running the country like a business. People literally asked for this. Milton Friedman would say Trump has a duty to his shareholders to do this. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026I seem to remember that clicking "view source" was a CFAA violation. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026The Team Topologies book makes some points about organization that would be obvious if it had been any other subject. Organizing teams by technology would mean putting everyone who uses Excel in one department. Other teams can order "Excel services" from them. 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026Have we seen the first EU bureaucrat tell the US to regulate less yet? 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026Architecture Decision Log, June 12th 2026: Context: It is morning. Decision: Get out of bed. Consequence: Appear as a functioning human being. Approved. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026When I have a job I don't care about, I miss caring about what I do. When I have a job I care about, I miss being able to not care. Don't have jobs. You can't win either way. 120 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026Did Databricks really just send me a "Security vulnerability report" as an Excel attachment? This could be either phishing, a security exercise, or plain stupid. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026I get regular "see what PowerBI dashboards are trending" emails and I can’t imagine anyone ever wanted that feature. 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026MDM people: in order to create a good data model, we first need to map the business processes in the company. Cloudflare: fuckit, let’s just make a single table, everybody gets 20 character columns and 20 numerical columns, choose wisely. 000 0
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026I’d be more comfortable moving my data-ramblings to LinkedIn (where everyone else data-rambles these days) if I didn’t have mostly real-world friends and colleagues there. The distance is the point. Context is king. 020 2
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026This is your periodic reminder not to form parasocial relationships with shell scripts. They will never love you back. 030 3
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026If I didn’t have self control, my entire feed would just be quote posts saying "this is what you wanted". 030 3
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026I got Hermes to create a blog-to-podcast script and now I am basically listening to a Databricks blog post rewritten and read like it was the narrator in Fight Club. Truly mixing genres here... 030 3
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026It seems Medallion is everywhere nowadays, so I had to write my own little self-help blog post: radbrt.com/posts/how-to...radbrt.comHow to Stop Worrying and Love Medallion | RadbrtThe inherent uselessness of Medallion 🔗Let’s get this out of the way first: I don’t like Medallion. I am able to formulate 3 reasons for why: It implies something about data quality. That data gets re... 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026Databricks says it is best practice that objects should be owned by groups, while any object created is owned by the user that creates it — which is like handing drugs to kids while saying kids shouldn’t have drugs. 010 1
Henning @radbrt.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026Data vendors in the financial industry are incredibly fascinating. Costs $$$$ and far short what anyone would define as minimum criteria for being a "data product". If I ever start my own business, I’ll be selling data to financial institutions. 020 2
