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Confessions of a Data Guy
Personal blog · confessionsofadataguy.com · on HN as dancrystalbeachdataprogrammingcareer
Confessions of a Data Guy is a personal blog at confessionsofadataguy.com about data, programming and career. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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I write an article about naughty SQL, https://www.confessionsofadataguy.com/sparksql-is-destroying... , I get destroyed on Reddit, I do a YouTube video. Life is good.
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on a deleted threadSubmitted Is Data Modeling Dead? as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Utter Failure of Async in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fastest Way to Insert Data to Postgres as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databricks Buys Tabular – 1B Dollar Deal Iceberg vs. Delta Lake? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polars vs. Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda. – Confessions of a Data Guy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Lambda MicroVMs: The Compute Nobody Asked For? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DuckDB beats Polars for 1TB of data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polars vs. Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda. – Confessions of a Data Guy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polars – Laziness and SQL Context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native Python function just as fast as PySpark as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Pandas with Polars. A Practical Guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Engineering vs. Data Science – Where’s the Love? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Httpx vs. Requests in Python. Performance and Other Musings as a story · 1 points
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