Percent calculated and reformatted as a string column while still in database *twitch* We know dashboards are bad because they pull business logic too far downstream So too here, we are pulling data display too far upstream Let numbers be numbers. You might even want to math with them. 60/

Hmmm thanks for the good points, very fair! I buy the point that it's perhaps a more reasonable default than I gave it credit for, but I guess I'm just lazy and crave a bit more syntactic sugar for, e.g., exporting into partitions

Running a GCP job for which I clearly did not provision enough RAM and somehow filled with the same manager guilt of when you realize someone on your team is too stretched I’m sorry, computer. I did not enable you with the necessary tools to succeed here

Fortunately the slides are very evocative!

Sounds wonderful and really resonates! Will there be a recording?

Absolutely bonkers, IMHO, that BigQuery table names are case sensitive by default O/C, everything uncontroversially is in R and python, but I feel that it's so anathema to the rest of SQL Just fixed a gnarly bug with `is_case_insensitive = FALSE` (after staring at the double neg for a bit) 58/

I previously used Connect! (That team still does; I just changed roles where it became less relevant) Happy to chat about it

Bound to happen but you hate to see it: technical diagrams in GCP docs with the AI slop aesthetic. Historically, their dev docs have been *very* nice (much better than AWS imho) So compact, so saturated.. 56/

In an icebreaker a few weeks ago, our team was sharing pet peeves and an early-20s said API 429 errors. Not API errors but specifically status code 429 (too many requests) and I'm still thinking about it If that somehow isn't a metaphor for early 20s exuberance.. your 30s are all 500s

MailChimp IMHO has always struck me as a product with so little SWE sensibility. From the janky email templates lacking any sort of control flow (it makes you **miss** Jinja!) and apparently all the way to the API Gotta pass text blobs to API instead of an ID like a sane person 53/

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Well if I ever need to remember what to write on a post it later, I’ll consider a sketchpad!

Sometimes during the day I make a note on my PostIt note to-do list that is just to remind me to add something to my running Google Doc to-do list. This is either very organized or very chaotic and I’m not even sure which anymore

Perhaps with undecideds 50 isn’t as relevant of a benchmark?