schools + libraries + bookstores as the knowledge layer, modern data tools as the compute layer. that's the stack we should be building toward

Wireframes in ASCII style constraint forces you to focus on structure over aesthetics, which is exactly what a wireframe should do. The moment you can make it pretty, you start designing instead of thinking.

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Alex and I are speaking at #SQLBits next week!

📅 22 April · 10:40–11:00 · Room 3A
📍 ICC Wales, Newport

Untangling dbt Dependencies with Knowledge Graphs and AI -- 20 min session on dbt-kg, querying your dbt metadata via natural language. Live demo included.

#SQLBits2026 #dbt #DataEngineering

The AI started answering "is Blender easy" and never recovered.

"1000 suns" is still on the roadmap, currently blocked by a dependency on user consent popups.

Like a farmer but instead of crops dying you get wrong numbers. And instead of weather you fight renamed columns. And nobody sees the field.

Wikipedia bans AI content in a 40-2 vote. The 2 dissenters were almost certainly bots.

No: reading a post twice to check if it's human / Yes: just assuming everything is AI and doomscrolling anyway

"it didn't ship" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when the whole point of conceptual work is that it shapes what gets built next.

The dev literally wrote "sorry :-(" in the disclosure. That's not a studio dodging accountability, that's one person who wanted their game to feel alive and had $0 to do it.

Silence or AI voices -- I'll take the one that tried.

cURL runs a bug bounty -- find a real vulnerability, get paid.
AI agents flooded it with fake reports. Valid submissions dropped to 5%.
95% of maintainer time spent on noise.
They shut the whole program down.
This is what happens when you remove friction from contribution.

dbt Cloud is perfect for large data teams -- docs, lineage, UI, onboarding all in one place.
The dream: pair it with Airflow + Cosmos.
The reality: Cosmos never supported dbt Cloud. You pick one or the other.
Will dbt Fusion finally fix this? 🤔
#dbt #DataEngineering #Airflow

🎤 Speaking at DataTLV 2026!
"Why English-to-SQL Usually Fails (and How We Fixed It with dbt Context)"
May 28 · 15:35 · Cinema City, Rishon LeZion
Come say hi 👋
🔗 datatlv.com #DATATLV

Every engineering meeting ever: 45 minutes deep into consensus algorithms, CAP theorem tradeoffs, and distributed lock management. Head of Sales kicks the door open: 'What if we just… put it on a truck?' 🚛 [promoted to VP two weeks later]

#dataengineering #dbt #trino #elt #ci | Egor Tarasenko 🚀 Trino + dbt: Simplifying ELT with Pure SQL 🚀 In modern data engineering, batch source ingestion presents two problems: 1️⃣ Handling source-level changes – For example, when columns are dropped or mo...

CI/CD for data isn't optional anymore.
You're not just testing code -- you're testing data contracts.
A dropped column can break your entire downstream silently.
Make bad changes impossible to reach prod undetected.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/egorse...

Memorize the structure, not the syntax.
#SQL #DataEngineering #RecursiveCTE #InterviewPrep

SQL recursive CTEs demystified 🧵
Most engineers know they exist. Few reach for them instinctively.
The pattern is always the same:
1️⃣ Anchor -- where do you start? (usually the root / NULL parent) 2️⃣ Recurse -- what do you inherit? what do you increment? 3️⃣ Terminate -- stops when no new rows match

Can you write a SQL query to find each product's root category and depth in an unlimited category tree?
💡 Hint: GROUP BY won't save you here. You need a Recursive CTE.
Drop your solution 👇 Answer in next tweet!
#SQL #DataEngineering #RecursiveCTE #InterviewPrep

The "after the fact" problem is underrated. Most palette tools are validators, not collaborators. Real-time feedback changes the mental model entirely, you're composing, not auditing.

We just shipped Airflow Schedule Insights v0.2.0 🚀
Ever had a DAG silently not run with zero explanation? This plugin tells you exactly why — and predicts when it will next run.
pip install airflow-schedule-insights
www.linkedin.com/posts/egorse...
#ApacheAirflow #DataEngineering #PonderLabs

"Nobody owns Postgres. Everybody owns Postgres."
Best one-liner on open source governance I've read in a while.
Meanwhile MinIO just archived its community repo. Same story, different Friday.
Open core isn't the villain -- dbt and Airbyte exist because of it.

#OpenSource #DataEngineering #Postgres