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Taylor Murphy

@tayloramurphy.dad
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Arch Data (@arch.dev) Founder/CEO Meltano maintainer 🐉 ex-Data @ GitLab, Concert Genetics PhD @ Vanderbilt Paid Data Influence / Actor aka "The Peter Drucker of Data Shitposts" Husband and Dad 👦👦👧

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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 11/01/2026
I'm around. shut down the company but Meltano is a live and well with Matatika. they have a stable non-vc business around Meltano.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 07/05/2025
Signing off for a while. Find me via email or LinkedIn DMs if you need me.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 26/04/2025
all catalog and no files
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 21/04/2025
I'm at Data Council for Tuesday and Wednesday this week! Say hello if you see me (and make sure your nametag is facing out so I can clock your name as you walk up 😉)
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 21/04/2025
This was for discord, right? Thank you for tagging me! 😁
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 21/04/2025
Awesome! Thank you for sharing
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 10/03/2025
if only you'd tried that first!
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/03/2025
😏
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/03/2025
twitter is "yes, and" while bluesky is "well actually"
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/03/2025
how big are the groups? they usually do 5 kids so it's less likely kids don't earn something
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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 08/03/2025
I cynically joke about companies wanting to use LLMs because they don’t know how to build a proper UI, but actually this is a perfect use case
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/03/2025
has there been any progress on bsky algorithms that actually mimic twitter's for you experience? everytime I go to the feeds view is the same 10 feeds I don't care about.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 06/03/2025
all it's missing is the cowboy hat
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 06/03/2025
GitLab's is still open! gitlab.com/gitlab-data/...
gitlab.com
transform/snowflake-dbt · master · GitLab Data / GitLab Data Team · GitLab
This is the primary project for the GitLab Data team.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 06/03/2025
This post from Ramp is really cool. Tickles all my "data orderliness" spots engineering.ramp.com/industry_cla...
engineering.ramp.com
From RAG to Richness: How Ramp Revamped Industry Classification
How Ramp used Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build a state-of-the-art in-house industry classification model.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 04/02/2025
the way my son watches his fish for a few minutes after feeding them fills my heart so much
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 03/02/2025
I love this article world.hey.com/jason/we-inc...
world.hey.com
We increased conversion ~30% and we don't know exactly how
Not too long ago, we dedicated a 6-week cycle to improving Basecamp's onboarding flows. The aim was to increase conversion from trial to paid by smoothing out the initial experience of getting going, ...
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 31/01/2025
I remember T9 as the superior input method
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 31/01/2025
this is great www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
cs.cmu.edu
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 23/01/2025
hell yeah. being a Dad moves you forward and you can do it with so much joy and play
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 23/01/2025
github.com/opensnowcat/... is a fork of Snowplow run by www.snowcatcloud.com
github.com
GitHub - opensnowcat/opensnowcat-collector: OpenSnowcat Collector, an open source fork of Snowplow (Apache 2.0 License)
OpenSnowcat Collector, an open source fork of Snowplow (Apache 2.0 License) - GitHub - opensnowcat/opensnowcat-collector: OpenSnowcat Collector, an open source fork of Snowplow (Apache 2.0 License)
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 23/01/2025
same energy as "slow children at play"
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 23/01/2025
you sure it's not like this actually
media.tenor.com
a man is doing a handstand in the rain while two other men are standing behind him .
ALT: a man is doing a handstand in the rain while two other men are standing behind him .
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 15/01/2025
We had a baby girl today! Everyone is healthy, hearts are full.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 01/01/2025
Happy new year everyone! I hope 2025 is great for you
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 27/12/2024
get your ass in the mother fucking house right now before I beat your ass why do I know this so precisely 😂
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 27/12/2024
I quite enjoyed this article issues.org/limits-of-da... #databs
issues.org
The Limits of Data
Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 18/12/2024
When did they start asking if you want a latte got or cold... It's always hot, dammit!
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 17/12/2024
Is throwing a potato in someone's yards and thanking them for decorating a thing? Or am I being ounked? I'm told it's a tradtion...
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 14/12/2024
now see, that's a much better post.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 14/12/2024
the vendors... they yearn to vend
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 14/12/2024
I enjoyed this post from my good friend Emilie! open.substack.com/pub/emilie/p...
open.substack.com
Maternity leave is boring
But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 14/12/2024
mine are better now. Just in time for taekwondo belt test! 🥋
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
easy - big bang for sure
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
what % of your kids were sick this week? I'm at 100%
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
got sent a link to an online excel workbook in the teams meeting I was invited to. the suffering is real
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
I joined my family's group chat for the NY Times games and got to air my grievances. I feel seen..
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
👀
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
A guy flipped me the bird in traffic 3 days ago and I'm still thinking about it. His was an overly aggressive amount of finger waving given the horn but then it turns out I was wrong and shouldn't have honked bc what he did was legal. Let it go brain!!
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 13/12/2024
having one of those weeks that gives me flashbacks to covid. juggling sick kids, childcare, and work schedules 😮‍💨
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 11/12/2024
we need to storm SAS and free this domain. such BS they've squatted it.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 10/12/2024
select * from raw.hris.salaries
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 10/12/2024
it's 5 o'clock! time to crack open a bluesky...
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 10/12/2024
How did Elastic adding a more open source license not make the rounds when they announced it?? www.elastic.co/blog/elastic...
elastic.co
Elasticsearch Is Open Source. Again!
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 10/12/2024
see? @jlowin.dev was right - you should've changed your title to analytics engineer!
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/12/2024
the lesson here is don't let your kids grow up to be a data engineer
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/12/2024
there's not ads either... yet 😅
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/12/2024
but we're not paying money for it... 😬
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/12/2024
so I use SwiftKey on ios and it's better than the native keyboard but it still sucks. the swipe gesture doesn't spell very common words. "I'm at the aurora" instead of "airport" 🙄
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 09/12/2024
Mainly at bounce places like Urban Air. Regular trampolines need to have a net
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