Gordon Shotwell

Hey #databs has anyone figured out a nice quarto resume template?

A very dark signal for Bluesky: I installed an app blocker to block all my social media except blue sky and I still don't check out all that often

I hate to say it but this is pretty accurate www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

Shower thought: I wonder how many tenured professors would trade tenure for better job mobility.

My neighbor has what I can only describe as "Big Umbridge Energy"

Has anyone figured out a good way to work with copilot tab completion vs positron tab completion?

I'm finally reading this paper but my first thought is anybody on earth good at predicting how long a task will take them....? Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?

I regret to inform you that textured vegetable protein really is the best breakfast cereal.

So far the best use for AI that I've found is "describe modelling problem -> get hyper-specific Bayesian regression model for just such a use case"

Is there a good local SQL editor aimed at analysts that has GUI based data visualizations? #databs

Look I know it was a mistake to turn Haliburton and Fox into the norcal Bulls, but I think a series of nationwide protests is really kicking Sacramento when it's down.

I feel like there's a natural way to generate these files from Quarto sites: llmstxt.org

there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen

The thing we need to survive the current time is a new season of Silicon Valley about Gavin Belson going to Washington.

Mayor Andy Fillmore states that he will introduce a motion next Tuesday to halt construction of new bike lanes #BikeHfx

One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP

I started reading Twitter like a min 2010s blogging platform where I follow no accounts but just open individual people's pages. Surprisingly good!

A year after leaving Posit I still can't believe how ridiculous it was that that job didn't work out.

Here's a @mattyglesias.bsky.social substack post idea: - Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions - People who care about one tend to not care about the other - That's weird!

A really good way to maintain your R sensibilities as a Python dev is to get really twitchy and upset when people don't use list comprehension.

Go rule of law! reason.com/volokh/2025/...

R isn't dead, but it is SAS

Underrated source of male loneliness: women tend to form close relationships through parenting, but men generally don't. As men spend more time parenting they tend to shift time away from relationship-forming activities.

DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA

Falling birth rates and climate change are really similar problems in that they're huge threats to our way of life and nobody has any idea how to fix either of them, but it seems like people are either worried about one or the other, but rarely both.

Shiny for Python is quietly becoming a really great AI chatbot interface. The latest bit is nice server side chat bookmarking: shiny.posit.co/py/api/expre...

About a year into working with AI coding tools and I can't overstate how I'm just way better at everything work related. I'm faster, better able to learn new things, and less likely to make mistakes.

who's on what platform, 2025 edition

in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

The new Jason Isbell album is excellent. tidal.com/browse/album...

Trump unable to keep tariffs up, blames alcohol

GitLab's is still open! gitlab.com/gitlab-data/...

I have a little dbt chatbot which I want to write about. Are there examples of public dbt codebases which I could use as an example?

Claude 3.7 with Cursor's new agent everywhere thing is a significant regression.

Claude 3.5: let me delete that for you Claude 3.7: let me play you the song of my people

Has anyone in #databs built an AI chatbot to answer questions about their dbt models?

Is there a good Python widget for visually comparing two data frames for differences? I'm looking for something like vdiffr or something. #dataBS #python

So glad @mcmegan.bsky.social is on Blue Sky, I had a twitter account that I just used to read her tweets.

Python annoyance, I often write functions in other .py files and use them in a notebook, but I don't want those imports to be cached. I.e. when I edit the function and run the import chunk I want the updated function, not the cached version.

"To an LLM, a novel discovery is indistinguishable from an error." x.com/mmay3r/statu...

An example of how Trump really doesn't have a plan: two weeks ago the Canadian conservative party was both very pro-Trump and very likely to form a majority government. Those are both less likely after the Tarrifs.

The thing Americans don't get about Canada is that underneath the pleasant demeanour is a profound ability to tolerate suffering. We get through winter every year; we'll get through the trade war.