13 Dec 2023
Data Dispatch is a channel I’ve recently created (in September of this year) for disseminating useful and
interesting content about all things in the data landscape. I’m talking topics from data engineering, data science,
analytics engineering, data analytics, data visualisation, and so on. Maybe some software development and dev-ops too,
so long as it’s data-adjacent.
The content is currently available via two channels, viz. X/Twitter and WhatsApp:
It started as a WhatsApp channel—shortly after Meta launched the channel feature globally—but I quickly added it to
X as well. I ultimately see it expanding to some other platforms though, for instance LinkedIn.
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14 Oct 2023
A few months back I was looking for an RSS syndicator and found Limeline. If you haven’t
come across it, it’s well worth a look. I like it because:
- It’s simple—I don’t need to think too much about how to use it. (If I’m gonna expend brain cycles on tooling, I’d
prefer to keep them for tools I spend more time in, like my code editor.)
- It looks good—not much to add here: if it looks good, I’m more likely to use it.
- It doesn’t require you to sign up—in fact, it has a nifty means to have accounts without having sign ups: it uses
UUID’s to identify an account. If you possess the
account’s UUID, you can view or update the RSS feeds (at
https://limeline.app/<uuid>); if you lose it, tough luck—
you’ll have to create a new account. Every account also has a read-only UUID if you want to share your feed with
others, that doesn’t allow them to update it; e.g., see
here for mine.
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01 Oct 2023
Welcome to my blog! You can learn more about me in the About section, or view a
detailed CV here. But in short:
- I like programming.
- I like maths.
- I (sometimes) like data.
This blog will be my avenue for sharing some things I find useful or interesting, and hopefully you feel the same way.
Since a purely “welcome” post would be pretty dull, I’ll start the blog off by sharing with you a T-SQL device that can
come in useful for helping to structure complex queries.
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