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way0utwest @way0utwest.bsky.social · 4h

T-SQL Tuesday #191: Invitation–Your Favorite String Parsing - I'm late, I apologize
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T-SQL Tuesday #191: Invitation–Your Favorite String Parsing

It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. My apologies. I had a mix-up with a host and was on vacation all last week, so no invite. I’m extending T-SQL Tuesday #191 a week to have people write on …

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 4h

I still cling to old.reddit.com so I only get my subscribed subs there. But that doesn't stop the inevitable self-inflicted trip to /r/all and that's what gets me

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 4h

Muted words helps a lot here on bsky. I've backed way off with Facebook the past several years (unfortunately I do have to look at it about once a week). The next to go to will have to be the default front page of reddit but I've no idea how to block just that while keeping the focused subreddits

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 4h

these changes are now in their own branch with their own PR and I'll get to them when I get to them

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 4h

no, I caught it before anything had been committed locally. I'm not really sure when it made these changes yesterday, but I didn't ask it to do so - in fact, when I asked "did I ask you to do that?" the response was "no (emdash) you didn't explicitly ask, I took the initiative"

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 5h

CoPilot in VSCode took it upon itself to make changes to my code without confirming with me, and now I'm making it clean up after itself.

Yes, it's as glamorous as it sounds

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

Why isn't this major headline news? Why isn't corporate media covering NSPM-7?

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 3d

$88 in Ticketmaster fees? Hell to the no

I’d ask how they can justify it, but they don’t have to because they own everything

Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 3d

How many tickets are you trying to buy?

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 7d

Walkers welcome too! We won’t go as far or as fast, but it’s a lovely way to get moving and kick off your Wednesday!

Taiob Ali @sqlworldwide.bsky.social · 8d

🏃‍♂️ SQLRun is back at #PASSsummit! 🏃‍♀️
Two chances to run
📍 Wed Morning Run
🎽 Free T-shirt for Eventbrite registrants, thanks to Tacnode
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📍 Fri Morning Long Run – For the brave!
🔗
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#SQLRun #PASS2025 #Tacnode

PASS Data Community 2025 Wednesday Morning Run

Start off on the right foot - join the PASS Data Community for the annual Wednesday morning run.

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Brent Ozar @brento.bsky.social · 9d

Looking for work in the Microsoft data community? Check out the jobs my readers posted yesterday in the comments: www.brentozar.com/archive/2025...

Who's Hiring Microsoft Data People? October 2025 Edition - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

Is your company hiring for a database position as of October 2025? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s make a love connection. If your company is hiring, leave a…

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · Jul 6

The one thing I’ve learned being a developer and then switching to being a PM …

When a developer says they can do it in an hour believe them.

You don’t need to remind them every day for a week.

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 16d

The keep adding gestures and were supposed to just “discover” them somehow?

Also there are FOURTEEN functions hidden behind the Reply button in iOS Mail including Print. I don’t know where the right place is for that but at the bottom of a pop-up menu behind the “Reply”
button doesn’t seem logical

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 16d

Followup: you can flick up from the address bar to see the open tabs and close from there. But it’s not readily apparent that this is a UI feature

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 17d

Clippy 2.0

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 24d

I need to know what happens.

a woman in a purple suit says i 'll push it snl

ALT: a woman in a purple suit says i 'll push it snl

media.tenor.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24d

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 24d

My bank popped this up a few weeks ago right at the top of the main screen after logging in

Alert from the ESL Mobile Banking iOS app informing users that only the two most recent versions will work (current and the most recent previous version)

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 25d

I’m on a 2-3 year cycle now. When I upgrade one of my kids gets the old one. Used to do 2 years but couldn’t justify replacement with the minimal upgrade from 13 to 15

Battery health is 1 thing that would get me to upgrade sooner but new charging optimizations keep it in good shape for a long time

Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 25d

Safari on iOS 26 now takes 3 taps to close a tab vs. the 2 taps on iOS 18 and I feel like it’s a big step backwards in usability

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 28d

This must be why I’ve gotten so many spammy calendar invites this week. Luckily I don’t have ChatGPT hooked up to anything else

Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 28d

I’ve been casually looking at 5k prices but I think if/when I buy another display, a second 4K might be better based on this

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · 29d

Not even if you increase font sizes?

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · Sep 12

I just tried asking Claude to explain index maintenance in the style of George Carlin and it was an experience

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Andy Levy @alevyinroc.flxsql.com · Sep 11

Blogged: recapping summer speaking events flxsql.com/2025/09/08/s...

Summer Speaking Summary 2025

Wrapping up Summer 2025 travel & speaking experiences

flxsql.com

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