Image of Alan Moore with long hair and a bushy beard. With the words "Write/Wizard/Mall Santa/Rasputin Impersonator"
Data Manager
Seeker of Truth/Organizer of Chaos/Finder of Errors/Occasional Hair-Puller/Frequent Screen-Curser/Resolver of Data Disasters/Destroyer of "Data Final_Final For Real.csv" Naming Conventions
Required listening.
Realities of expecting a delivery from Elta Courier in Greece.
I’m talking to some undergrads next week and trying to compile a list of the best ways to tap into the data world. #datasky what’s the most updated Bsky starter packs and lists these days? I lost sight once I got my feed to a good spot
Love this!
New Open Source Tool Supports Transparency and Compliance Across Italian Public Administration
interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/o...
In the very week I decide to try Proton Mail... 🙄 Are there ANY decent companies out there? www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
The price for success 😅
My lazy ass cat basking in the sun in the queen’s chair feeling smarter than all of us.
Well done on week 5! Sending motivational vibes 💪💪🔥 and offering cat sun worshiping photo as reward 😀
Irish Authors Longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Kit de Waal's The Best of Everything is a tender and unforgettable story of found family and the long way back from heartbreak. The Benefactors by…
Happy 3 years from this subscriber! Cake is mandatory. 🎂
It's the 3-year anniversary of The Python Coding Stack in a month's time…
…should I bake a cake?
Sure, there are publications with tens or hundreds of thousands of readers. But I'm pleased that nearly 7,000 people like my quirky writing and unconventional perspectives
Screenshot of Gurman Bhatia's course
In the Open Visualization Academy:
NEW COURSE: The Craft of Building Stories with Data, by @chartwaali.bsky.social: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/the-...
Newsletter: Open Source Fuels the Future of Visualization (P.4 4) by Melissa Strong: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...
STOP SENDING STATISTICIANS DATA
this is footage of a REAL statistician looking at REAL data
they have played us for absolute fools
More good news 🙄🙄
"This so-called “affiliate” system allows streamers to earn money for new player registrations, and also potentially a slice of the revenues gambling operators receive from players."
www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/social...
An event worth attending for #OSS and adjacent folk. These Geneva Dialogue masterclasses aim to establish a shared analytical baseline on how OSS functions, how responsibility is shared across the chain, and how current approaches struggle to scale. @
dig.watch/event/securi...
Observable have a nice primer on #dataliteracy. If you’re stuck in the weeds needing help, this might be a good place to start. Not affiliated, just a nerd 🤓 observablehq.com/learn/what-i...
“you have the least information at the beginning of a project, which is exactly when design docs ask you to make the most decisions[…] Capture intent, hard-to-reverse decisions, and shared context. Leave out the implementation details you'll get wrong anyway” www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/design-...
Insightful and approachable piece in Tech Policy Press on Ireland’s catch-22 as #DSA chief enforcer/tech company beneficiary. And the shared contradiction of both government and electorate (regulate, but careful now…)
#digitalpolicy #techregulation
“Ireland’s tech-driven growth model has long depended on being both host and referee to US multinationals. The DSA is now testing whether that balancing act is sustainable.”
techpolicy.press/why-ireland-...
Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a
- military ally (Greenland)
- strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine)
- political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe)
- economic ally (tariffs)
On updated #gdpr #personaldata definitions, the author believes the change will “make it more difficult for organizations to achieve a good compliance posture, and more likely that they need expert help as part of their compliance programs.” Got to agree here.
desfontain.es/blog/digital...
🇨🇦PM Carney: "...Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion." (🧵2/6)
Most edited page English-language page? Well of course it’s the list of WWE personnel, with more than 59,000 revisions. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Broke the V60 jug but it’s ok, this is better. This one’s for 70s/80s Irish pub culture fans 🥃
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
This is a gripping microhistory thread, worth the read (Don't believe Mrs. Grieve!)
Screenshot showing the evolution of menu icon usage from Sequoia to Tahoe MacOS
Waaah can never unsee!
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...
Happy 2026! 🎆
My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.
I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday!
patreon.com/DSLC
#RStats #DataBS
