Taylor Murphy

Signing off for a while. Find me via email or LinkedIn DMs if you need me.

I'm at Data Council for Tuesday and Wednesday this week! Say hello if you see me (and make sure your nametag is facing out so I can clock your name as you walk up 😉)

twitter is "yes, and" while bluesky is "well actually"

I cynically joke about companies wanting to use LLMs because they don’t know how to build a proper UI, but actually this is a perfect use case

has there been any progress on bsky algorithms that actually mimic twitter's for you experience? everytime I go to the feeds view is the same 10 feeds I don't care about.

This post from Ramp is really cool. Tickles all my "data orderliness" spots engineering.ramp.com/industry_cla...

the way my son watches his fish for a few minutes after feeding them fills my heart so much

I love this article world.hey.com/jason/we-inc...

this is great www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

same energy as "slow children at play"

We had a baby girl today! Everyone is healthy, hearts are full.

Happy new year everyone! I hope 2025 is great for you

I quite enjoyed this article issues.org/limits-of-da... #databs

When did they start asking if you want a latte got or cold... It's always hot, dammit!

Is throwing a potato in someone's yards and thanking them for decorating a thing? Or am I being ounked? I'm told it's a tradtion...

the vendors... they yearn to vend

I enjoyed this post from my good friend Emilie! open.substack.com/pub/emilie/p...

I joined my family's group chat for the NY Times games and got to air my grievances. I feel seen..

A guy flipped me the bird in traffic 3 days ago and I'm still thinking about it. His was an overly aggressive amount of finger waving given the horn but then it turns out I was wrong and shouldn't have honked bc what he did was legal. Let it go brain!!

having one of those weeks that gives me flashbacks to covid. juggling sick kids, childcare, and work schedules 😮‍💨

we need to storm SAS and free this domain. such BS they've squatted it.

How did Elastic adding a more open source license not make the rounds when they announced it?? www.elastic.co/blog/elastic...

see? @jlowin.dev was right - you should've changed your title to analytics engineer!

the lesson here is don't let your kids grow up to be a data engineer

so I use SwiftKey on ios and it's better than the native keyboard but it still sucks. the swipe gesture doesn't spell very common words. "I'm at the aurora" instead of "airport" 🙄

OpenAI’s advanced AI safety team

How many of these (very real!) Texas towns can you pronounce? Mexia Gruene Refugio Humble New Braunfels Boerne Lazbuddie Waxahachie Palestine Burnet Manor Iraan Study Butte Jiba Dumas Luckenbach Palacios Nacogdoches Uhland Pyote Yoakum Bowie Elgin Buda Bosque Bexar

I wonder what it's like for folks who outsource their thinking on an topic this much. Probably very highly paid sadly...

I need a 10 minute max recap for The Stormlight Archive. I started reading this series during covid and I remember ~50% of it... I don't want to have to reread everything... but also it's so good...

Hey #databs - what data conferences are you planning to go to in 2025? Could be anything, vendor-specific or not.

modern LLM-based application development is wild

bsky features I want: * collapsible threads * swipe to dismiss posts I've already seen * bookmarks maybe the guy who made the Apollo reddit app will make an app for here 🤞

Snowflake Fivetran 🤝 Obfuscated Pricing

I got this working and it feels so magical. Was able to update some data pipelines just by asking Claude. FastMCP was great - the browser based debugger helped tremendously. I had Claude write the whole server . py file (with a few changes) after feeding it our openapi spec and the fastMCP readme.

Had a double AI fail today. Fireflies crapped the bed and didn't actual record anything and Granola didn't start as well. A great conversation lost... Terrible timing too b/c I then immediately had to step away to pick up kids so now I'm trying to remember everything an hour after the call 😭

Weird how apple intelligence just... isn't that useful. I use AI on the desktop all the time, and I'd rather use the claude or chatgpt apps than Siri. I'm guessing they'll catchup at some point but it's pretty meh right now

I got Claude loaded up with some tools via MCP. Very cool experience. I want to test FastMCP now (hat tip @jlowin.dev) to see if I can connect it to the @arch.dev api and do some fun things 👀

"it's not data... when good feel??"

this shows the value of counter metrics!

No lies detected blueskyroast.com/roast/taylor...

realized I lost my 165-week peloton streak today... really bummed, but all I can do is get back in the saddle. oof.

Posting this so I can read it later :D structuredlabs.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

My kids heard Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" at a birthday party a few weeks ago and now they just yell around the house "I'm still standing after all this time YEAH YEAH YEAH" it's hilarious, adorable, and only mildly annoying 😂

I think nearly all tech/data advice should be couched in the size of the org. When I reflect on the "Run your data team like a product team" advice, we should've been way more explicit about org size (i.e. more relevant for >1000)

this is an interesting thread to read. clear overexuberance by execs and maybe some over promising by a dbt sales eng (I'm guessing) and it ends in disaster. www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...

yeah so I'm never letting my kids play Roblox hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/

maybe bluesky will be what brings csv janitor back to the timeline

Kagi just sent me an email and I can gift 3 free months to 3 people. I've been paying for it for a few months now and have used it as my primary search engine. DM me your email if you want to claim one of the spots!

Mac in 3 flavors