If current cuts to the Federal Science Budget proposed by the White House are approved by Congress, that will far-and-away be the largest cut to science since the United States began funding it.

Republicans & Democrats alike know there’s no surer path to Making America Not-Great.

Ermagerd, the storge!

Filing your income taxes via text message is pretty sweet, not gonna lie.

The number of balance sheets I’ve seen that balance to… 120.64

What Year Is It GIF Alt: The "What year is it" meme

When I see a project tender that requires good knowledge of versioning in TFS

a man with a mullet wears a hat that says seattle on it Alt: "I am never going to financially recover from this"

Oh hello, Serverless Azure SQL database. Weren't you supposed to *checks notes* auto-pause?

Probably smarter.

One more time for the people in the back:

Do. Not. Install. Browser. Extensions.

CREATE LOGIN {name} WITH TRUST_ME_BRO;

I’m sure they know what they’re doing. This will be fine.

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I created a walkthrough covering RPO/RTO, the architecture, the jobs, and a full configuration demo. It’s simple, reliable, & underrated.

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The Afroman Trial Explained: Cops vs Hip Hop YouTube video by Josh Johnson

This man just don't miss.

How to move your Mastodon account to another server:

☢️ If you still have a Mastodon account on dataplatform.social, you only have hours to migrate it before the server is decommissioned.

It’s like real-life Banksy.

Related: I sleep surprisingly well in light turbulence.

a couple of men standing next to each other on a runway with the words `` feel the need for speed '' above them . Alt: The old Top Gun ”need for speed” meme

Looks like we’ll have a 300 km/h (150 freedom units) of tailwind on today’s flight.

Let’s go.

Try asking for some cookies.

Ask them if they support privileged identity management.

You can never entirely remove Access.

Not quite. Stopping over at ORD, so it’ll take me over Iceland but no further north than that.

First light over the airport tarmac. The sky is gas flame blue with a hint of vanilla in the distance.

First light at Seatac. Starting my long journey home.

LTT Commuter Backpack product photo

I bought an LTT Commuter Backpack about a year ago. It's a little pricey compared to run-of-the-mill generic backpacks, but it comes with a ton of clever storage compartments, good padding for the computer, and impressively rain resistant.

Awesome to see you again, James!

Ep. 25 - Python Notebooks YouTube video by SQLGene

We 👏are👏back!

Winter blues kicked my butt, but Figuring out Fabric is back for 2026 starting with @pawarbi.bsky.social

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It depends.

I ”only” got 45 minutes at ORD at 5 a.m. Guess I got lucky.

Runway 09R at ORD in morning light, with some clouds

Chicago city skyline peeking through the morning fog

Wide shot of the skyline in the fog. The sun is pressing through the dark clouds.

Chicago was looking kind of cute this morning