@emilyriederer.bsky.social - Emily Riederer

09 Sep 2026 01:57 +0000

tech debt except calendar debt where you keep moving the one-on-ones thinking you'll be less busy tomorrow

08 Sep 2026 21:39 +0000

Major shout out to @dalefrakes.bsky.social @jounihelske.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social and @rbly.bsky.social for the help! Bluesky lazyweb is alive and well 🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

07 Sep 2026 15:29 +0000

It is surprisingly difficult* to find someone to whom the phrase "data generating process" is first attributed. Stats lazy web? *as in, I Googled it and was not in top hits. I have tried (almost) nothing and it isn't working!

04 Sep 2026 01:05 +0000

Doing some volunteer data eng work and their infra is... interesting (probably built by a series of random vols over time) 📊 Not pointing fingers, but sharing a running list of antipatterns for your amusement and as I keep track for a future thing I want to write up 🧵

02 Sep 2026 23:36 +0000

Could not recall this quote. Thanks, Gemini, for "debunking" it for me. Really worried I was going to have to create a universe there...

02 Sep 2026 23:29 +0000

For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs

02 Sep 2026 01:11 +0000

Just occurred to me I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post I thought to be AI authored on Bluesky. Zero ways to monetize and zero clout from building a following here. Incentives are a magical thing

01 Sep 2026 18:20 +0000

Appreciation post for the @dataelixir.com newsletter. Just saw it hop into my inbox and always a delight to read

30 Aug 2026 02:12 +0000

👀👀 @bsky.app beta feature to auto number slide multi-post threads from authors 👀👀 Love this, but would also/additionally love a more Reddit-like ➕ to expand/collapse threads

28 Aug 2026 18:50 +0000

Something I think about a lot is two times in undergrad where a professor said "If you remember absolutely nothing else from this class, remember this"... and I still do. Very effective tool when used sparingly [talk prep thoughts]

23 Aug 2026 14:06 +0000

Anyone teaching undergrads that would indulge me in a boondoggle? Idea is to share a trivial dataset and question but many potential interpretations or "data snags". Asking for <5 min of their time to do whatever seems reasonable; answers tend to cluster around diff made/missed assumptions 1/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

23 Aug 2026 14:06 +0000

22 Aug 2026 18:37 +0000

Talking to my mom about Posit keynote prep and past talks Her: "The one of yours I never got was the column names. Surely everyone knows to do that" So, my mom thinks your database is bad and you should feel bad about it. You tell 'em, Mom!

22 Aug 2026 15:08 +0000

What's the German word for: Sending five people an entirely human-crafted Google doc but being so fatigued of being on the receiving end of Gemini-written docs that you're paranoid they make think any part of it was AI written? Because that was my yesterday

22 Aug 2026 13:23 +0000

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Claude: You’re absolutely right to push back on that! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Aug 2026 01:52 +0000

New rule. If you reference it 3x in a week you have to skeet it. https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ Chesterton's Fence is perhaps no where more true than in large pre-existing codebases

16 Aug 2026 22:44 +0000

Bought a quite niche* used book and was delighted that it came heavily bookmarked by past reader and felt instant kinship. But oh man do past reader and I have different interests! My dog-ears are in chapters they all but skipped and vice versa *but excellent! I’m rereading to find a cite

15 Aug 2026 20:13 +0000

Something NOT better? Gemini BigQuery SQL auto-suggestions are just laughably awful. Hallucinating tables that aren't in the schema, columns that aren't in the table, and like, man you're a database you literally know this stuff [contains quote post or other embedded content]

15 Aug 2026 16:54 +0000

I have an inexplicable irresistible desire to build little event-driven systems when orchestration is more appropriate. Building professional things the right way, it's an odd guilty pleasure to spin up short-lived projects recklessly and know I'll deprecate them before the tech debt comes due

15 Aug 2026 13:23 +0000

There's something fun about checking back in with tools you use intermittently. I tend to have substantial but intermittent use cases for Google Cloud every other year. Neat to see which "papercuts" from last time were pernicious enough for enough folks to have been resolved (multi region queries!)

14 Aug 2026 13:06 +0000

Last night I tracked down Jenny Bryan’s absolutely lovely 2019 UseR! keynote on Code Smells (worth the watch, btw!) riffing off of Martin Fowler Confronting more AI slop documents this morning, may is suggested we adopt the “Claude smells”?

13 Aug 2026 01:01 +0000

Amazing 🧵 How do I get a feed of 0% news and 100% people live-debugging causal analyses 🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]