Writer @ davidsj.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lv4leaugjs23The amount you love someone is proportional to how often you Ghiblify their pictures.29 Jul 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4leaugjs23https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lsw4wmztsk2uThis week I look at agents. I think this is a new way to build where we don’t intentionally build code-based software. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidsj/p/agents?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=125hnz&utm_medium=ios01 Jul 2025 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw4wmztsk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lstzzxwd3k27BERT and ERNIE! 😂 https://tracking.tldrnewsletter.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Fchina-biggest-ai-drop-since-deepseek-baidus-ernie-to-hit-market.html%3Futm_source=tldrai/1/01000197c112a9c4-b9fffb4c-dd80-43a0-8f23-579d9e113f38-000000/pQmJmsCU6TJth3jCQjbcUppgJ9pT173TJed5uQ1TvH8=41130 Jun 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstzzxwd3k27https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3ls2fv7wec22bI don't usually share photos of my family on social media for good reason, but I'm happy to share these ones!20 Jun 2025 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls2fv7wec22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lqxd3ef2hk23This post encapsulates how I feel about the current state of LLMs and doomers etc. Really great read: https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav06 Jun 2025 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqxd3ef2hk23https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lqwfupqxvc23So when I've attended Snowflake summit before, I've usually written a blog post talking about the new features released, etc. Is someone going to do that this year, given I didn't go? 😊 #datasky #databs06 Jun 2025 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqwfupqxvc23https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lnsccrazzk2wDoctor’s orders 🫡27 Apr 2025 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnsccrazzk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lnlfeh6zl227I still think this is the biggest prize in AI. If Siri could actually do most things you do on a phone manually... https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/22/siris-new-boss-is-already-making-big-internal-changes-per-report/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter24 Apr 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnlfeh6zl227https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lmac2gjess2vHas anyone tried Llama 4 Maverick yet? How big a machine does it need to run locally? @simonwillison.net07 Apr 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmac2gjess2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lltio7inm22sLooks like Nintendo became the best at console FPS.02 Apr 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltio7inm22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3ll557dreas2bOnce again, we've devised a derogatory name for something many of us are doing: "Vibe coding". Just like "Citizen Data Scientist", "Excel Data Analyst", and many other terms made to belittle by the supposed true artisans that came before. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidsj/p/vibe-coder https://open.substack.com/pub/davidsj/p/vibe-coder?r=125hnz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true24 Mar 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll557dreas2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lke7lxlohk2mClickbench says @duckdb.org is a great analytics database https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/clickbench-v0.1?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=data14 Mar 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lke7lxlohk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3ljl2mg4qmc2cA couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about @pola.rs Cloud, and as coincidence would have it, DeepSeek then releases smallpond - a way to use @duckdb.org scaled out. It's pretty cool that an org has managed to build this, but is it the right way? https://davidsj.substack.com/p/many-ducks-a-big-pond https://davidsj.substack.com/p/many-ducks-a-big-pond?utm_source=activity_item04 Mar 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljl2mg4qmc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lja3vek2uk27🗣️ It was a real honour to speak at the very first Forward Data Conference in Paris last November, not to mention being introduced with a special piano verse just for me! 🎹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNQWKUNEmeQ28 Feb 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lja3vek2uk27https://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lj3tf3di3k2g🏭 @tobikodata.com released a great new feature for SQLMesh last week called blueprinting. This is a feature that the dbt Labs community has been asking for for ages, and I’ve been wanting it too! https://open.substack.com/pub/davidsj/p/model-generation?r=125hnz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true26 Feb 2025 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3tf3di3k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3liop37dqxs2q🦆🦆🦆🦆 everywhere these days https://count.co/blog/announcing-duckdb-on-the-server21 Feb 2025 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3liop37dqxs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3limoyp3g6s2gI've been interacting with r/dataengineering a bit recently, and I'm impressed by the size and engagement with the community there, but... Folks on #databs / #datasky seem much less likely to just mouth off without thinking or reading! I think I much prefer what we have here on BlueSky.20 Feb 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3limoyp3g6s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lih6ypwghs2w@tojyouso.bsky.social is this you? 😂18 Feb 2025 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lih6ypwghs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3li6dayyr2k2thttps://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/ This so reminds me of @motherduck.com and @duckdb.org, I guess the open source Polars is as good as it can be on one machine, and Polars Cloud is as good as it can be on many.14 Feb 2025 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3li6dayyr2k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jayatillake.bsky.social/post/3lhylfxveos2y🚀 Exciting times in the data transformation space! Recently, dbt Labs acquired SDF Labs, while @tobikodata.com acquired Quary (YC W24)—both promising Rust-based frameworks. So is SDF better than SQLMesh? No. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidsj/p/sdf12 Feb 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:7vr6lyprarcq5mryv2flot6h/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhylfxveos2y