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Understanding people helps you understand software and organizations.

Money doesn't grow on trees Cloud spending can go off the rails, and no one is really happy about this. The finance team is grilling the ops team why the operating cost is very high, and then ops ask the devs to curb the spending, but they don't want to run into a situation...

Not a paradox at all.

Un nuevo aniversario de esta web.

Because having a data platform isn't enough. Even when it can scale well, peopleware is different. It requires different approaches when it comes to managing different team size. Failing this, your system won't be running smoothly, either technical or squishy human realm.

https://dagster.io/blog/introducing-our-new-ebook-scaling-data-teams

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มี data platform แล้วก็ดี scaling ได้ถือว่าเลิศ แต่ก็ต้อง scale team ได้เช่นกัน เพราะ sizing ของ team ต้องใช้คนละ approach ในการบริหารและจัดการ

https://dagster.io/blog/introducing-our-new-ebook-scaling-data-teams

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 24 August 2026 The average temperature today is 12.76˚C, With highs of 13.31˚C and lows of 11.11˚C, It may feel like 12.26˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 3.13m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...

Jim pressed at the lump again. It might have been a tracking chip, needled under there while he was sleeping, or an egg sac from some horrible insect. It might have been a benign little cyst. It didn't matter. It didn't hurt. Jim didn't

Evidence-based UK review of berberine for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-08-24.

My weekly blog post. Links this week include a map of all the deaths that have occurred in the Grand Canyon, a source for audio-only files of TV shows and movies and a prototype for a game where you walk through an ASCII city. I've got some info regarding a cool upcoming science talk and a flash sale for a cross stitch site that's selling their whole catalog for extremely cheap. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Just make pople flourish now.

Higher grades and belonging: New report shows trans students thrive with teacher support Students whose identities are affirmed at school report a greater sense of belonging and higher grades, and are more likely to participate fully in class, according to a report released ...

Now the polymathic Trump is dabbling in naval architecture.

💬 George Will

Hittat en väldigt trevlig liten podd som handlar om rivningarna av Stockholm, Aldrig Mehr Podden. 48 avsnitt med fokus på ”om försvunna platser och rivna byggnader med människor som på ett eller annat sätt försöker förklara hur det kunde ske och varför eller varför inte det ”aldrig mehr” borde hända igen. För det kan det väl inte göra”. https://overcast.fm/+AA0NeVhOqS8

This week started with a weight scare. I went shopping for some shorts and realized I don’t even fit into most of them. I knew I’d gained weight over the last few years but it was mostly muscle. Recently though, I realized I gained a lot of belly fat. I know I’ve neglected m...

What is a weekend? #startuplife

It is not matter of if, but matter of how. “The failures change constantly because of changing technology, work organization, and efforts to eradicate failures.” https://how.complexsystems.fail/

Now in Claude's defense, I had to re-learn everything about how Frontier worked. Over the last decade or so I had only been using a narrow set of functionality. I used it for very occasional utility scripts for the file system or over the web, but mostly for writing JavaScrip...

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Why Do Rich Kids Love Socialism? - The Atlantic A teacher who has to buy his own school supplies, an adjunct professor who works at three universities to make ends meet, a social worker who assists the disadvantaged, a nurse whose hospital was bought by private equity, a fe...

I took this photograph of a European starling in Montgomery Township, perched on the very tip of a young pine. Through the lens it looks black. Just black, especially against…