I think there's perhaps one valuable insight that AI code generation's giving us about the nature of software development. We speeded up production and the needle on value created barely moved. It's not a production process.

napari 0.8.0 is out now on PyPI, conda-forge, and as a standalone bundle! napari.org/stable/

napari: a fast, interactive viewer for multi-dimensional images in Python

view and explore 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional arrays on a canvas;, overlay derived data such as points, polygons, segmentations, and more;, annotate and edit derived datasets, using standard data st...

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napari@napari.org · 2mo ago

Struggling for something to do in a TWO DAY gap without ⚽? How about trying our pre-release of napari 0.8.0? napari.org/dev/release/... Of note, this release drops Py3.10 support and deprecates PyQt5 in favor of PyQt6. It also adds some neat new features and improvements! See below: 👇

Hol’ up. This is a winged Lady Liberty-angel hybrid? W. T. F.

Thank goodness Adobe's AI summary is available to save me the time of reading this long document

I have two new shirt designs up until may 7th 2026 roryblank.bigcartel.com unless I cut it off early

*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards #dataBS

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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Saturday Night Live is neither all good nor all bad, no period of the show has ever been an absolute home run or a total failure, it’s the sum of thousands of people’s work, by its nature ebbing and flowing in quality, often very subjective This is one of the best snl sketches i’ve seen in a while

What If I Told You - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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It seems Nao from @blef.fr just got open-sourced. Nao is a framework for building and deploying an analytics agent. Focused on data engineers. Included is a nao-core cli for getting context on metadata, modeling, and rules. And a chat UI to run analytics on your data.

👋 Reminder: the Gemini APIs in ai.dev have a batch mode, which not only saves time – but also money (up to 50% of the standard costs)! If you're sending in many requests all at once, I strongly, *strongly* recommend taking a look. ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

🎸✨Instead of hiding my questionable and ever-evolving @lastfm.bsky.social history, I built a Python bot to roast me about it every morning! 🤖 Poe API + ScriptBot (w/ Gemini⚡️) ⚙️ @github.com Workflows (running daily for free) 📩 Gmail (to bring it all home) And the best part? ~$1.75 per year to run.

This week on Counting Stuff, my brain is overloaded doing new-work-onboarding and so the only bandwidth I had was writing tips on onboarding to data work to at least make it less chaotic. slightly. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/effective-tr...

Effective (training) firehose sipping

Just some habits I've built up

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I am honored and humbled to join @amyactonoh 's ticket to deliver for Ohio’s working families. Amy is the only candidate in this race who will tackle our affordability crisis and work to lower costs, clean up the corruption 1/

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the history of the world!

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

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>A suspect is in custody following an incident that occurred at Vice President JD Vance’s home on Monday morning. >The incident happened at Vance’s East Walnut Hills house, located on William Howard Taft Drive.

“The bigger point is simply that Bill and Ralph don’t care. If you’re still upset about the Kimball vs Inmon wars, see a therapist and get help.”

Data Identity Politics and The Kimball vs. Inmon War

Bill and Ralph don't care, and neither should you. It's time to move on.

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This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

Making shiny rocks from man-made crystals

Some pure fun to ring in the new year on

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Last new shirt design of 2025, with an important message that i think could bring about a lasting world peace if everyone buys one that is my hope roryblank.bigcartel.com

Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey everyone, we’re doing cargo cults now! Come on!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Leavitt: "We know that when gas gets cheaper, everything else gets cheaper too, and that's what this president is focusing on"

If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated

Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence

Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 10mo ago

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Just presented this! You can check out the code here: (note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me. github.com/kylestratis/...

GitHub - kylestratis/vibedialer: A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon

A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon - kylestratis/vibedialer

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Kyle@kylestratis.com · 10mo ago

I have a toddler birthday party right now, and an adult birthday party at a brewery this afternoon, so I’m participating in @joereis.bsky.social’s Practical Data Discord vibe coding hackathon purely via mobile using Wispr Flow and @anthropic.com’s Claude Code web. This is wild.

They're really going all in on the horny teenager beat: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...

More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.

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NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

Remember when Childish Gambino released the video for This is America and everyone was amazed at all the symbolism? The stuff from the Trump admin is like the funhouse mirror of that with the polarity all flipped.

Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · 10mo ago

DHS and the White House just collab posted this on IG. Appeal to Heaven flag squeezed in there amongst the rest of it

This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...

Counting the planes overhead

Through the magic of RADIO WAVES~~~~

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This is amazing. Stop what you’re doing and watch this right now.

Lars Gotrich@totalvibration.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In February, @subpop.bsky.social came to me with an idea that I found hard to resist: @clppng.bsky.social wanted to play the Tiny Desk, like, ON the actual desk... with MIDI-controlled robots striking coffee mugs and shaking paper clips. It's finally here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...