Jon Udell

Patron saint of trailing-edge technologies, grateful resident of the nation-state of California.

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2024-09-20 20:04:32

Powerpipe dashboards can now connect not only to Steampipe but also to SQLite and DuckDB. This creates a combinatorial explosion of possibilities, including dashboards that use SQL to visualize large datasets read from Parquet files by DuckDB.
https://thenewstack.io/llm-assisted-translation-from-postgres-to-sqlite-and-duckdb/
#sql #duckdb #parquet

2024-09-02 23:32:28

Ask anyone in Michigan about the town of Howell, just north of Ann Arbor.
That's no dog whistle, it's a high-decibel KKKlaxon. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113064778272844999

2024-08-31 16:33:09

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@npub16u7…uend FWIW I am getting good results having them help me build vanilla web stuff. The fact that "the industry" doesn't value that is a separate issue. LLMs can assist with learning and applying the basics.

2024-08-27 18:49:08

Brilliant analogy. https://www.threads.net/@aaronrosspowell/post/C_LfADEOYRy

2024-08-26 20:32:01

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@npub1f6a…pnql Yeah, no kidding. Any sign of a customizable base user prompt a la ChatGPT?
And, follow-up question, assuming you're using that feature of ChatGPT, how helpful do you think it has been?

2024-08-14 22:56:02

The MSM should not take being mainstream for granted. That status must be earned and can change. https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/112961684584733473

2024-08-12 16:40:03

It's great to see the huge rallies, but also worrisome given the COVID surge. We are, I hope, in the midst of a seismic cultural shift. Maybe in this moment it is possible to normalize masking? Could the contrast between the kindness exhibited by a crowd of masked Dems and the carelessness exhibited by the other crowds be spun in a positive way?
#MaskingIsKindness
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4820687-tim-walz-kamala-harris-minnesota/

2024-08-05 15:25:37

I try not to judge people who feel they must remain on Twitter for professional reasons.
But it's getting harder and harder to respect that choice. After a long absence I took a peek at my feed there and this is what I saw.
I'm not naming names. And there are so many of you. How, at this point, do you justify being there?
#Twitter #CognitiveDissonance #SelfRespect
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/910/108/938/669/425/original/c949f3be2602eaba.jpeg

2024-08-01 15:29:33

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@npub1alq…mnj6 I would like to read some case studies about how things like this, or HTMX, are being applied, both incrementally (the majority) and greenfield (rare but interesting).

2024-07-28 19:02:20

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@npub16gl…syzj I guess anyone could assemble the emails into an archive and provide a feed, eh?

2024-07-28 18:50:45

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@npub16gl…syzj I'm wondering about this too. Are they primarily distributed via campaign emails (that I don't receive)?
I haven't even found a web archive of them and would like to be able to view the whole collection.

2024-07-23 16:17:09

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@npub1u27…3qfq It's what I was imagining but not betting on.
When despair becomes hope, much becomes possible.
#hopescrolling

2024-07-13 22:28:54

On this episode, Michael Hobbes opens the Health app on his iPhone and discovers it has been tracking his steps without his knowledge or approval.
I had the same experience a couple years ago. Should be opt-in right?
Until then, I had avoided anything quantitative-self-like. Of course I got sucked in. And now, of course, I'm having second thoughts.
https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/12713294-the-10-000-steps-myth

2024-07-01 20:15:58

"Hitler’s lesson from the failed putsch was that he needed to pursue revolution through “the politics of legality” rather than storm Munich City Hall."
(with apologies to Mike Godwin)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/nazi-germany-hitler-democracy-weimar/671605/

2024-06-26 15:34:34

"At times, Kurzweil’s prophecies read like passages from messianic religious texts."
Because that is what they are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/06/26/singularity-nearer-ray-kurzweil-review/

2024-06-26 03:32:24

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@npub1l0s…pgrv I just listened to a podcast about that reversal that never really answered the question: Why pull the plug at the last minute?

2024-06-07 23:17:20

"We demonstrate here a dramatic breakdown of function and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models"
Easy and fun to verify. Ask ChatGPT or Claude: "Alice has 3 brothers and she also has 4 sisters. How many sisters does Alice's oldest brother have?"
I do not expect LLMs to perform this kind of reasoning, and the value I derive from them doesn't depend on that.
But evidently such claims are being made, and shouldn't be.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061

2024-05-31 15:45:20

This column was both painful and exhilarating to write. Painful because it forced me to reconsider long-standing assumptions. And exhilarating for the same reason!
#events #community #calendar #icalendar
https://thenewstack.io/how-llms-can-unite-analog-event-promotion-and-digital-calendars/
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/536/481/475/880/270/original/30759a2e64c499fc.mp4

2023-12-22 17:20:26

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@npub1qag…9gyn What should ideally happen is that with AI support, people in sales and customer support are able to bring more and better human energy and empathy to those roles, to the benefit of people on both ends of transactions.
Well, a guy can dream, eh?

2023-08-10 21:33:09

The abominable phrase "content creator" appears zero times in the column I just wrote. The topic is writing, and the word "writer" did the job perfectly well.
#ContentCreator #Writer