Miles
@corndog.bsky.social
I care about my cats, music, and movies. Mostly data & analytics posting. he/him
Watcing The Pact 2 after enjoying the first one. It's so funny when props has to make a credible looking newspaper. It looks fine if you don't pause but the copy is a scene by scene recap of the first, including saying what the final frame of the movie is.
November 2, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Watcing The Pact 2 after enjoying the first one. It's so funny when props has to make a credible looking newspaper. It looks fine if you don't pause but the copy is a scene by scene recap of the first, including saying what the final frame of the movie is.
Next big problem is large tableau extracts. They all hit during midday and grab way too much data & don't preaggregate
Database optimization duty this week. Saved the team 1 hr/day of execution time. Non-sargable operations and duplicate table scans were the biggest culprits so far
October 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Next big problem is large tableau extracts. They all hit during midday and grab way too much data & don't preaggregate
Database optimization duty this week. Saved the team 1 hr/day of execution time. Non-sargable operations and duplicate table scans were the biggest culprits so far
October 30, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Database optimization duty this week. Saved the team 1 hr/day of execution time. Non-sargable operations and duplicate table scans were the biggest culprits so far
Such cool data storytelling
New project! Contributor @owenlacey.dev asks whether Kevin Bacon is the most-connected actor in Hollywood, per the popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”.
🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...
🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...
October 26, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Such cool data storytelling
We have to rein in the definition of comedy. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is not a comedy. Pillon is not a comedy. Get your ish together HBO. 📽️
October 18, 2026 at 4:55 AM
We have to rein in the definition of comedy. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is not a comedy. Pillon is not a comedy. Get your ish together HBO. 📽️
I've heard Other Mommy was bad. I can confirm that it is true and encourage others to not spend the time on it. 📽️
October 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I've heard Other Mommy was bad. I can confirm that it is true and encourage others to not spend the time on it. 📽️
I need a primer on how to kill metric seeking behavior in orgs. An unrelenting need to have good news for clients and execs hides the actual work of making things better.
October 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I need a primer on how to kill metric seeking behavior in orgs. An unrelenting need to have good news for clients and execs hides the actual work of making things better.
Hozier waiting for the bus: Take me to work
October 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Hozier waiting for the bus: Take me to work
Having now seen Digger, I totally get why marketing that movie was hard. Pretty weird, extremely cool time.
October 15, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Having now seen Digger, I totally get why marketing that movie was hard. Pretty weird, extremely cool time.
Google Maps led me to a bar in dc with an apparently good chopped cheese but it turned out to be a crypto themed bar
October 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Google Maps led me to a bar in dc with an apparently good chopped cheese but it turned out to be a crypto themed bar
My job requires me to generate reports for other companies across a few industries. It's funny that some places only want pdfs of data. Like... I really hope you aren't typing this stuff in manually.
October 3, 2026 at 1:19 AM
My job requires me to generate reports for other companies across a few industries. It's funny that some places only want pdfs of data. Like... I really hope you aren't typing this stuff in manually.
Stirring some shit at my company because my semantic layer -> SQL agent is writing better queries than the historical SQL context -> SQL model we are currently using
September 29, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Stirring some shit at my company because my semantic layer -> SQL agent is writing better queries than the historical SQL context -> SQL model we are currently using
Had a dream that I ate a stick of Plugrà butter
September 29, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Had a dream that I ate a stick of Plugrà butter
Vibecoded the gui. User requests data, agent reads Ossie model as context, returns semantically valid query for user review & can be run against redshift tables with df presented to user.
Got back around to this today. It's now a 600 line yaml file and the agent is pretty good at writing semantically valid sql. Wish Cube was Ossie compatible - craving a gui to play around the model with
Going to see what implementing Ossie semantic spec does for our agentic analytics. Right now we are a tableau shop but unwilling to pay for tableau semantic/data360.
September 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Vibecoded the gui. User requests data, agent reads Ossie model as context, returns semantically valid query for user review & can be run against redshift tables with df presented to user.
Y'all remember data mesh
September 24, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Y'all remember data mesh
Got back around to this today. It's now a 600 line yaml file and the agent is pretty good at writing semantically valid sql. Wish Cube was Ossie compatible - craving a gui to play around the model with
Going to see what implementing Ossie semantic spec does for our agentic analytics. Right now we are a tableau shop but unwilling to pay for tableau semantic/data360.
September 24, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Got back around to this today. It's now a 600 line yaml file and the agent is pretty good at writing semantically valid sql. Wish Cube was Ossie compatible - craving a gui to play around the model with
I'm still not over how people thought Kendrick Lamar's Damn wasn't enough and were convinced that there would be a second album drop immediately after.
This album is an all timer
This album is an all timer
September 23, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I'm still not over how people thought Kendrick Lamar's Damn wasn't enough and were convinced that there would be a second album drop immediately after.
This album is an all timer
This album is an all timer
Automated voice at cvs: "Customer service needed at deodorant"
Capitalism has created hell on earth
Capitalism has created hell on earth
September 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Automated voice at cvs: "Customer service needed at deodorant"
Capitalism has created hell on earth
Capitalism has created hell on earth
I now have a good workflow to identify the worst queries of the last week, get their execution plan, and generate suggested improvements.
Amazing how much a slow database kills the flow of analytics work.
September 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I now have a good workflow to identify the worst queries of the last week, get their execution plan, and generate suggested improvements.
Love the raygun documentary for the extremely sympathetic view of her and her partner. It's really fine for people to do badly at things.
September 11, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Love the raygun documentary for the extremely sympathetic view of her and her partner. It's really fine for people to do badly at things.
Every bar plays good music if you wear headphones
September 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Every bar plays good music if you wear headphones
Going to see what implementing Ossie semantic spec does for our agentic analytics. Right now we are a tableau shop but unwilling to pay for tableau semantic/data360.
September 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Going to see what implementing Ossie semantic spec does for our agentic analytics. Right now we are a tableau shop but unwilling to pay for tableau semantic/data360.
Amazing how much a slow database kills the flow of analytics work.
September 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Amazing how much a slow database kills the flow of analytics work.
I hate when SQL is all
Select `customers`.`name` as `name`
from `customers` `customers`
Gross as hell
Select `customers`.`name` as `name`
from `customers` `customers`
Gross as hell
September 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I hate when SQL is all
Select `customers`.`name` as `name`
from `customers` `customers`
Gross as hell
Select `customers`.`name` as `name`
from `customers` `customers`
Gross as hell