What I learned this week

Software

Shell

You can us curl to make requests using the DICT protocol curl -s "dict://dict.org/d:windmill" | trim

Other curl things: -I for HTTP header, -L for redirection

unpack handy tool for decompression

You can use rm and a pattern to remove all files in a directory rm E1F* removes all files that start with E1F

Dagster + DBT

Dagster Assets = DBT Models: dbt models are named using file names, which Dagster will also use to create the corresponding asset’s asset key.

Python venv [Stashing because for whatever reason I forget the syntax]

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate

DuckDB, you can copy a result set directly into a new csv file in your working directory

COPY CHECK123 TO 'output.csv' (HEADER, DELIMITER ',');

Athena performance tips

Business/Finance

7-11 closures Absoultely insane fraud from a Jags employee

Math/Stats

Back Prop granular example

Travel

Other

Accountability sinks

“You can catch more flys with Honey than vinegar”

The Art of attention

On Context