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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 30/06/2026

Strava must have changed their inference provider since they now automatically show the AI summary of your activity without any interaction.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 29/06/2026

Loved @zaltzcricket.bsky.social's reaction to the Ben Stokes surprise retirement announcement.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 06/03/2026

random thought: Iron Man is actually a Fe-male........

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 15/08/2025

Not a fan of this "Message on LinkedIn to get around email consent" marketing pattern.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 03/08/2025

Oh look, it's the monthly installment of the Amy's Baking Company episode of Kitchen Nightmares.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 18/07/2025

When sledging goes too far...

A Swedish footbal fan holding up a sign that says "Abba > Beatles" at the England vs Sweden at the Woman's Euro 2025 quarterfinals

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 15/07/2025

If search engines had launched today, tech influencers would be falling over themselves labelling the use of search operators like +/-, " ", allintitle, allinurl, site, etc. as "search query engineering" 🙄

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 04/06/2025

I just love this game and the creator so much!

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Shrikant @shrik.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

That brief instant when I have to turn off Pi-Hole to see if a website is broken (it's always a digital marketing adjacent site.... :eyeroll: ) because of it makes me feel so icky.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 17/03/2025

I can't talk to or about anyone named "Mauro" any more without going "SHUT THE FUCK UP MAURO" in my head, why Linus why 😭

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 03/02/2025

Well I enjoyed it.

Snippet of code preceded by the comment: "This is the worst if statement in the history of if statements"

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 26/01/2025

Just realised that "Copilot" is an anagram of "Clip Too". Microsoft's marketing team is really missing a trick by not pushing the "AI Clippy" angle!

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Today I came up with a new word: Clunktional Adjective. Something that's clunky but otherwise functional. Useful for describing a proof of concept or first (and sometimes final) pass at a solution #rstats #databs

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 22/01/2025

Having a baby is lot like Brexit: - it was a marginal 50-50 decision at best - everything's become more expensive, "but it's not really about money" - every decision involves all sides yelling at each other as "negotiations" - freedom of movement has decisively been ended

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 22/01/2025

Someone at work asked me if "dim_users" is a reference to stupid people and now I can't stop thinking about it #DataBS

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 13/01/2025

I start all my LLM chats with "AI, kya bolti tu?" #hindi

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When Kier Starmer says "AI" it's the same as a person in the 1970s saying "computers". Just imagine he's saying "computers" and you'll understand the depth of his understanding of the whole thing.

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Shrikant @shrik.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025

Surely, SURELY, a basic bit of knowledge for experienced engineers joining an established team with a large codebase would be to NOT disregard Every. Single. Convention. of that codebase 🤔 Surely.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 02/01/2025

Nothing like the first day of a new year to truly test your code's assumptions. #DataBS

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 31/12/2024

I know it's mostly my fault for allowing queries like this on my estate, but a "scroll to searched term" would be nice as well... #DataBS

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 31/12/2024

Very glad for my 12+ year-old Raspberry Pi that just keeps chugging along blocking gunk from my home network!

Neofetch screenshot showing a Raspberry Pi Model B+ and its details.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 18/12/2024

It's been many years since I last daily-drove a Windows machine for dev stuff, and I still miss Notepad++ when opening random text formats that are not part of a "project". Zed comes the closest to being that "lightweight, but can do everything" editor replacement, but something's still lacking.

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Chris Kornaros @chriskornaros.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Here's a quick write up I did on the new uv package manager by Astral. I walked through setting up a new project, creating the repo with the GitHub CLI, and then using uv to actually manage dependencies. Plus, how to convert existing projects to uv. #DataBS #DevOps whtwnd.com/chriskornaro...

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Getting Started with uv, the Python Project and Package Manager | Chris Kornaros

Getting Started with uv, the Python Project and Package Manager Introduction uv is an Open Source project by Astral, the makers of ruff, that is self described (and worthy of the title) as an extrem...

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 01/12/2024

Tbh it's not that bad having low standards for pop culture quality. It just means there is more stuff that'll make you happy.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 26/11/2024

This burgeoning trend of growth hacker types sending LinkedIn connection requests just so they can hassle you without the inconvenience of an unsubscribe link is... annoying. Marketers will do literally anything to get around informed consent.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 22/11/2024

Your annual reminder that an employer's end-of-year review form is NOT PostSecret.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 22/11/2024

Netflix's 3 Body Problem wants to tackle difficult scientific and moral and philosophical challenges, but also has lines like "We sponsor your ILR", and some guy taking a GWR train from Brighton (ish) to London 🤦‍♂️

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hi, can you help me? I want to develop a model that makes risk predictions. Use logistic regression. Can I use some more modern techniques, like AI? Use a neural network with single non-hidden feed forward layer that outputs to a single dimension using a sigmoid activation function.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

Vincent D'Onofrio &
@vincentdonofrio
Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure
this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and
see the stars for the first time.

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 19/11/2024

PySky, what is your favorite automated documentation tool? Investigating to round out the docs of an internal platform I'm working on, and want something a bit more detailed than just a docstring-generated list of methods and inputs. One thing I'd like is class diagrams of derived classes #python

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Lien @liendata.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The modern data pipeline is ELELTLELTLTLTLTL

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 18/11/2024

Never thought of it this way 😲

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Nicolò Giso @nicologiso.com · 15/11/2024

The living documentation #dataBS #dataSky

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 15/11/2024

What are some approaches to data contracts? Any pointers to previous discussions or resources much appreciated! #DataBS

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 15/11/2024

Good morning from London, #DataBS / #DataSky -- a question for the hive mind please 🙏 When would it be appropriate for an organisation to pay for Snowflake, BigQuery as well as Databricks?

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 15/11/2024

But can it export to Excel?

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Shrikant @shrik.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2024

This is a test post for Bridgy Fed.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 31/01/2024

The best parenting advice I ever got was 1 day blinding stew

A sign stapled to a telephone pole. The text of the sign says:

How to "punish" my daughter?

My daughter is biting hair!

I'm a single father so I don't have the "maternal instinct".

CALLING ALL MOMS...

Best way to tell her this is not ok without being too harsh?

Please write the answer:

Feed her a stew that makes her blind
Feed her a stew that makes her go blind for 1 day
Stew that blinds her for a day
Feed her a type of stew that makes her blind for 1 day
1 Day Blinding Stew

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 14/11/2023

A lot of the vile bullshit said and done by the UK government makes more sense now through the lens of this statistic that the UK median age is nearly 41. Young people are simply not viewed as worth considering.

Screenshot showing that the UK median age in 40.7 years.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 07/11/2023

Yeah, capitalism-shagging run amok 🙄

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/11/2023

Contrast the different reaction when OpenAI does it vs when the Internet Archive does it.

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 29/10/2023

I put on Sky F1 for some toddler screen time and they're showing the drivers playing basketball instead, very difficult to manage expectations like this. Now I have a toddler yelling at me demanding "formula cars".

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 24/10/2023

Ugh this style of writing pieces like Michael Learns To Rock songs is really annoying. www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-wo...

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Shrikant @shrik.dev · 11/10/2023

Resolving to order in Hindi the next time at my local chippie.

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