Greg Wilson

My physical copy of AI Agents with MCP showed up...it's real! You can order the ebook now, and the print edition should be shipping soon, with pre-orders open. Over 330 pages on the Model Context Protocol, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. kylestratis.com/books/ai-ag...

napari 0.8.0 is out now on PyPI, conda-forge, and as a standalone bundle! napari.org/stable/

Hol’ up. This is a winged Lady Liberty-angel hybrid? W. T. F.

Thank goodness Adobe's AI summary is available to save me the time of reading this long document

I have two new shirt designs up until may 7th 2026 roryblank.bigcartel.com unless I cut it off early

*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards #dataBS

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

Saturday Night Live is neither all good nor all bad, no period of the show has ever been an absolute home run or a total failure, it’s the sum of thousands of people’s work, by its nature ebbing and flowing in quality, often very subjective This is one of the best snl sketches i’ve seen in a while

It seems Nao from @blef.fr just got open-sourced. Nao is a framework for building and deploying an analytics agent. Focused on data engineers. Included is a nao-core cli for getting context on metadata, modeling, and rules. And a chat UI to run analytics on your data.

👋 Reminder: the Gemini APIs in ai.dev have a batch mode, which not only saves time – but also money (up to 50% of the standard costs)! If you're sending in many requests all at once, I strongly, *strongly* recommend taking a look. ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

🎸✨Instead of hiding my questionable and ever-evolving @lastfm.bsky.social history, I built a Python bot to roast me about it every morning! 🤖 Poe API + ScriptBot (w/ Gemini⚡️) ⚙️ @github.com Workflows (running daily for free) 📩 Gmail (to bring it all home) And the best part? ~$1.75 per year to run.

This week on Counting Stuff, my brain is overloaded doing new-work-onboarding and so the only bandwidth I had was writing tips on onboarding to data work to at least make it less chaotic. slightly. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/effective-tr...

I am honored and humbled to join @amyactonoh 's ticket to deliver for Ohio’s working families. Amy is the only candidate in this race who will tackle our affordability crisis and work to lower costs, clean up the corruption 1/

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the history of the world!

“The bigger point is simply that Bill and Ralph don’t care. If you’re still upset about the Kimball vs Inmon wars, see a therapist and get help.”

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

Last new shirt design of 2025, with an important message that i think could bring about a lasting world peace if everyone buys one that is my hope roryblank.bigcartel.com

Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

Hey everyone, we’re doing cargo cults now! Come on!

If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated

Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence

wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Just presented this! You can check out the code here: (note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me. github.com/kylestratis/...

They're really going all in on the horny teenager beat: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...

This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...

This is amazing. Stop what you’re doing and watch this right now.

The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇

I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching. Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).

I want homeless people living in the ballroom during the next administration. Don't bulldoze it. Turn it into a shelter. Instead of ignoring and turning away from the most marginalized I want them in a palce next to the president

You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help: napari.org/island-dispa...

My stomach doesn’t take well to wheat but I ordered a French toast because I’m a gluten for punishment

I gave an introductory talk to SF.gov about MCP: what it is, why you should care about it, and how best to implement it. If you're new to MCP or are looking for a quick intro to share, you might also find it useful, so I recorded it: youtu.be/KG3VmuvyGc0

Lol on LinkedIn I saw a 100% serious, completely not ironic job posting for a part time data scientist... The job is to clean up and fix ai coded machine learning

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Check out the cool new “release highlights history” page @timmonko.bsky.social cooked up for us! 😍 napari.org/stable/relea... Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.

I found out (the hard way) that uv isn't *quite* a fully-working pyenv replacement yet. github.com/treyhunner/d... Maybe this is something I'll talk about in my office hours today...

One of the most common uses of "vibe coding" I'm hearing from professional devs, outside of prototyping: Building internal-only tools! Where you don't need to worry about security, scalability, malicious usage. E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this!

* Honest, open dialogue between differing perspectives is a core value worth preserving. * The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability. * There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.

Checking in on my AI workflow www.dataduel.co/my-explorato...