Drew Furgiuele

Hello! Have we met? What I'm into: Dogs, rifle marksmanship, data engineering, cloud architecture, Olympic lifting, and games Want to know more? LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pittfurg/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/drewfurgiuele/ Podcast: www.doingtheirbest.com GitHub: github.com/drewfurgiuel...

Officially in my bifocal era

Knock knock. Who's there? A key lookup. A key lookup who? Knock knock. Who's there? A key lookup. It does this four million more times. Key lookups, nested loops, and other repeat offenders at my #PASSDataSummit West precon. passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/

Yeah sex is great and all but have you tried closing the Teams app?

You just don't get it. The technology is always improving - pouring river water in your socks is getting easier and faster and cheaper every year.

The next time someone asks me why something isn't done yet, I'm just going to say I'm still in plan mode.

When everyone has a Principal title, no one does. Shameful.

Barbecue sauce is meat icing

I can’t believe what passes as good content around AI, written by humans or not. Your lukewarm take does not make you a thought leader.

Theres always dogs, and there’s always Ohio State fans melting down online. This is what keeps me going.

“Thanks to Claude, devs are just now condoms between it and prod.” - as seen elsewhere

Eating on camera. In a company-wide meeting. Bold.

Laying with Vito, both of us hoping this week is better than last week

Post-IT career idea #17: start a modest farm plot that grows a very narrow set of crops, then sell them at a weekend farmers market stand. The stand name: “Cukes and ‘Zukes”

Or as I call it: a Tuesday

This and “After Dark” are core memories; I just left a Drew-sized dust cloud running to my PC to buy this (and yes I do emulate 68k Macs to run old games and software) kotaku.com/revolutionar...

Guide to happy

I would like the rain to stop, please

We get our first YouTube strike!

"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in” yeah no shit kotaku.com/twitch-is-no...

I'm so sick and tired of seeing YouTube thumbnails with exaggerated facial expressions and hand gestures. You're talking about tech, I KNOW you're not literally jaw-dropping over a new toggle button or whatever. Yeah, algorithms and clicks, I know. I'm just too old for this shit 😑

The cringiest shit I keep hearing is how some agent is now being referred to as a “teammate”

PSA for all the recruiters out there: if 4 different people from your firm all reach out about that same role, it’s not a role anyone, especially me, is interested in

in case you’re in the market:

Episode 315: I'm sure they're little charger guys doingtheirbest.com/315

Love love love that we live in a time where someone can shotgun a ton of individual Slack messages directly to people that have some esoteric request that concludes with me manually needing to find time on their calendar.

“Make the first inch count” - as seen on LinkedIn from someone advertising resume review services

Everyone is like “we need humans in the loop” meanwhile I’m actively removing humans from my physical, daily loops. Humans are gross.

built a claude code plugin that reads sql server execution plans and tells you what's wrong. /plugin marketplace add erikdarlingdata/claude-plugins /plugin install sqlserver-query-plans@erikdarling then run /reload-plugins and just point it at a .sqlplan file: github.com/erikdarlingd...

PROD vs “alt prod.” DICUSS.

Fired for creating a CLI at Google: xcancel.com/JPoehnelt/st...

It's here. #tsql2sday #200, hosted by Brent: www.brentozar.com/archive/2026...

🎉🥳 IT'S HERE 🥳🎉 PerformanceMonitor v3.0.0 has landed, and it's a big one! 🚀 No more UI freezes 🔍 Object + index-level collection 🧠 Rebuilt recommendations engine Free, open source, zero breaking changes. 🍾 github.com/erikdarlingd...

Going great folks www.tomshardware.com/software/sec...

Per my last crash out…

Your use (and flexing on your use) of AI is not a substitute for an actual personality

Looking forward to trading token futures on some weird ass commodity market

You use Slack. I use Slack. We are not the same.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

I don't like fanboy-ing for technology I support and work for, but, fuck me, Genie Code is lowkey brilliant sometimes.

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