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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 25m

Darning socks is out. Damning socks is in.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 7h

Still seems pretty OP!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Barbie crying [edited]: He thinks I'm megafauna? I don't suppress the growth of woody vegetation or stabilize the abundance of smaller animals.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 1d

jyu.dev/blog/why-dev...

Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database

/dev/null is web scale

jyu.dev

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 1d

Thanks!

Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 1d

Getting some seafood for my birthday 😁

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 1d

@brento.bsky.social having oysters for the second time

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 2d

The public library would not be allowed to come into existence today if the concept did not already exist.

Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a tedious misdirect. Yeah while we’re here let’s check everybody’s 1040 before they take the Staten Island ferry. If you make more than $200,000 a year that’ll be $3 please.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

A fierce debate about who should be able to use government benefits in one of the world’s most expensive cities has animated the mayor’s race in New York in its final stretch, as Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo offer starkly different approaches to easing the city’s affordability crisis.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 2d

🥳🥳🥳

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 2d

The serendipity was funny.

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 2d

Just living in your own world, man. We are all just here for the ride

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 2d

Thanks!

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 2d

Granted

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

For any technology even remotely new, I get the best success with ChatGPT-5 Thinking and web search.
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/r...

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

Okay, that's funny.

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it

Tattoo lady: How about something Norse?

Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that

Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome

Me: I like the way you think

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

And where did that honey come from? You stole it from the bees!

Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

17 seconds is a long time

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

I enjoy coming up with phonetic pronunciations for the last few characters to tell them apart. So that would be defeat nine!

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

I'm working on planning my course curriculum for the next two years, if anyone has any input.
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From the PowerBI community on Reddit: Looking for advice on building a Power BI curriculum

Explore this post and more from the PowerBI community

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Eugene Meidinger @sqlgene.com · 3d

I guess the implied point is you aren't going to be using SSMS because you haven't touched a PC, but it feels a few logical leaps from Fabric improvement.

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