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Enshittification is real. AI Slop is ruining the internet.

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Parul Pandey - Why I’m Making the Switch to marimo Notebooks
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Why I’m Making the Switch to marimo Notebooks | Towards Data Science
A fresh way to think about computational notebooks
towardsdatascience.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Critical Mistakes Companies Make When Integrating AI/ML into Their Processes | Towards Data Science towardsdatascience.com/critical-mis...
Critical Mistakes Companies Make When Integrating AI/ML into Their Processes | Towards Data Science
What I’ve learned leading AI teams across industries
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December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I've seen a lot of criticism directed towards Apache Flink recently. Here's something I have to say: Flink is not going anywhere.

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Why Apache Flink Is Not Going Anywhere
Not in the next few years.
www.streamingdata.tech
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It Doesn’t Need to Be a Chatbot | Towards Data Science towardsdatascience.com/it-doesnt-ne...
It Doesn’t Need to Be a Chatbot | Towards Data Science
A more organic, incremental approach to integrating AI into existing products
towardsdatascience.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🕵️ Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit Using Graph Analysis

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December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I went sock-puppet hunting!
(What I found will _not_ shock you 😉 )

🔗 Using Graph Analysis with @neo4j.com and @yworks.bsky.social to Spot Astroturfing on Reddit
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December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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🚀 I've built a new interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams, showcasing state stores!

See state stores being restored, switch between RocksDB & in-memory state store behavior,restart tasks. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams!

Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/state-...
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
ICYMI (and if you're in 🇺🇸 you probably did 🦃):
My monthly round-up of Interesting Links in the data world for November rmoff.net/2025/11/26/i...
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Understanding the evolution of data lakes medium.com/capital-one-...
Understanding the evolution of data lakes
Tracing the journey from Hadoop to Snowflake and Databricks and how lakehouse architecture is reshaping data platforms.
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Wait what's this?!
I've managed to pull my finger out to ship a list of **a whole lot of interesting links about stuff going on in the world of data for November**, a whole three days left until the end of the month!

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Interesting links - November 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Lakehouse format convergence & data interoperability medium.com/capital-one-...
medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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In DuckDB v1.4.2, we shipped a number of features and improvements to the DuckDB-Iceberg extension: insert, update, and delete statements are all supported now.

Read Tom Ebergen's new article on these features at duckdb.org/2025/11/28/i...
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Wait what's this?!
I've managed to pull my finger out to ship a list of **a whole lot of interesting links about stuff going on in the world of data for November**, a whole three days left until the end of the month!

rmoff.net/2025/11/26/i...
Interesting links - November 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
⚡️ Writing an abstract for a lightning talk ⚡️ rmoff.net/2022/08/31/%...
⚡️ Writing an abstract for a lightning talk ⚡️
(src)
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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🗣️ "The combination of AVRO’s binary encoding and lz4 compression delivered exactly what we wanted: an order-of-magnitude smaller footprint, faster network transfers and reduced latency"

Great post by Emiliano Mancuso about the benefits of Avro for CDC pipelines 👍.

👉 medium.com/fresha-data-...
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game rmoff.net/2020/01/16/h...
How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game
Just over a year ago, I put together the crudely-titled "Quick Thoughts on Not Writing a Crap Abstract" after reviewing a few dozen conference abstracts. This time around I’ve had the honour of being…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Enshittification is real. AI Slop is ruining the internet.

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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
✍️ It's not high-brow, it's not erudite, but it is a ranty af blog post about AI slop: rmoff.net/2025/11/25/a...

#enshittification #AISlop #blogging
AI Smells on Medium
As part of compiling the monthly interesting links posts, I go through a ton of RSS feeds, sourced from specific blogs that I follow as well as general aggregators. These aggregators include quality…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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2) If you’re proposing a talk that mentions your company’s product, realize that the committee will worry that it could be a thinly-veiled product pitch. Write accordingly.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Great tips! 2 more I’d add 1) In today’s blah blah age...please don’t let AI “polish” your abstract. Proofread, fine. But don’t let it blandify your ideas/style.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others rmoff.net/2022/07/20/h...
How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others
Building the program for any conference is not an easy task. There will always be a speaker disappointed that their talk didn’t get in—or perhaps an audience who are disappointed that a particular…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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DuckDB v1.4 introduced the much-requested feature of database encryption. In our new blog post, @ccfelius.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org explain how the encryption works under the hood: duckdb.org/2025/11/19/e...
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🤦 I’ve been thinking about #Agents and #MCP all wrong!
So I wrote a blog about it :)
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November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There we go, fixed it for you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM