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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That awkward moment when your tool doesn't find 25 planted bugs it was supposed to find in a benchmark, but does find 5 that were there unintentionally.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sigh. So what actually moved the needle was fixing their cdc and not writing so many updates to the upstream in the first place. Which probably would've made BQ work just fine too. It's so often not the migration but the rearchtecture it forces. www.bolna.ai/blog/bigquer...

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blood, tears, and sweat, I believe. According to Churchill anyway.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The founding of the East India Company, in 1600: "a barrel of beer a day was authorised ‘for the better holding together of the workemen from running from ther worke to drinke’." 400 years later, tech offices pretty much running the same playbook.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kind of embarrassing how many ML people are reacting to Jev with "lol, LLM noobs discovered classifiers / BERT".

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Viking laws, man. (Well, technically, post Viking. 11th century Norway).

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The corollary here is, if the thing is really throw-away and there is no upkeep to worry about... build might be right now, where it was not justified before, if you have the tokens.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's not build vs buy, it's own vs rent. Owning is great *if you are willing to take on upkeep and maintenance*.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 03/09/2026

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Come with her if you want to live.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Totally wild that they gave Terminator a "neural net cpu" back in 1991

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Claude consistently making code 25% longer when I tell it to DRY things up is equal parts frustrating and hilarious.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

But did you see the coolest part, that I can just statically discover this type of thing now?

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You are back! And you saw my report! :)

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@phokion.bsky.social just finished Whalesong. Excellent as always! The wait for #4 begins.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's mostly "oh yes networking is way more complicated than aws and gcp make it seem"

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Dealing with bare metal providers and, man, I remember now why "cloud" vendors get away with their margins. Any old Twitter people remember NTT America?

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Neil Patrick Harris Shudders

ALT: Neil Patrick Harris Shudders

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just parse the AST, they said. It'll be easy, they said. SQL is a pretty small and intuitive language, they said.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Yep this is why I started building dblect.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Me: "Problem is, LLMs rarely give a straight call. They equivocate." LLM: "You are half right."

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oooh, is the distant team in Belgium, and is your colleague named Claude?..

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You are right and they are wrong. Áfram!

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We need a new shorthand: TS;DR (too slop, didn't read)

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Who would've thought that the 2 fastest python SQL parsers would be created by 2 different guys named Tobias M.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You keep pushing the frontier, great job!

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

dblect 0.1.0 released! Test your dbt workflows and find hidden dangers that linting and unit testing alone won't warn you about. Pypi: pypi.org/project/dble... . Github: github.com/dvryaboy/dbl... Intro blog: medium.com/@squarecog/t...

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dblect

Semantic correctness framework for dbt analytics pipelines

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That is another whole level (or a few) over what I am doing 😅

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That sounds fun though, what algebra and type theory are you working on?

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A cool thing about the dblect tooling is that you can `noqa` it inside macros. Something sqlfluff doesn't support right now, but i found it necessary for significant dbt usage.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm getting pretty close to the 0.1.0 release of dblect. If you are into the whole actually testing your dbt workflows thing, check out the README: github.com/dvryaboy/dbl...

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Lots of that. I recently fixed a coworker's vibed n8n workflow that looked at and re-parsed all customer tickets ever, every 30 minutes. And in a side project, I had neon and fly, which both autoscale to 0, but were kept alive by a cron poll checking if there's work to do...

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I've long held that people underestimate the power of just grepping the codebase. And boy did claude code prove me right... 😅

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Meet the SEMI JOIN. A join in the streets, a filter in the sheets.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rough order of planned `dblect` releases: 1. Structural hazards: static analysis across dbt models 2. Logical types + contracts: eg no summing amounts without grouping by currencies 3. Var/flag worlds: awareness of flag values that change generated SQL 4. PBT: generate examples and test execution

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you build excel file support by pretending it's just a csv wrapped in xml, you're gonna have a bad time.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Did the castle defenders earn their keep?

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm working on a tool, dblect, to help test dbt project changes for bugs in meaning, not just sql validity or data diffs. Last weekend it got the ability to call out bugs like summing up money amounts without grouping by currency. This is good stuff, man.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Anthropic was practically daring US gov to apply export controls.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As ever, creativity is driven by constraints. Really cool.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hypothesis is catching such beautiful and weird edge cases. Saving me a lot of future embarrassment. Thanks @drmaciver.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is breaking so many of my subliminal pattern matchers. Which is a good thing, to be fair.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's genuinely hard and takes more work to do a close read of Claude docs and designs than those of a mid-level SE, because Claude makes similar mistakes but it _sounds_ a lot more authoritative. The normal tells of someone not really thinking through it aren't there, they're... different.

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'm writing something that lets you say "the columns amount:int and currency:varchar make up the type Money". The right name for that is probably SemanticType, but I'm concerned folks will get confused and think this is connected to Semantic Layers. Does DomainType work?

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Dmitriy Ryaboy @squarecog.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Granted, people don't normally live in cathedrals. But still.

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