Is it finally time for a new query language to replace SQL? I was curious what @lloydtabb and his team were doing with Malloy, so I took some time this long weekend to check it out. The short version is: I'm super excited. The long version is here:

@mehd_io Most analytics projects don't need ACID transactions, schema evolution, concurrent writes, or data lake file formats. But they should still use DuckDB.

@LBreddemann "Tables/views are the data types that developers work with, while records (rows) are the instances of the data types." -- spot on

@archieemwood 🫡

@julianhyde @martinkl Looking forward to seeing this in BigQuery next quarter.

See it live in action here 👀

RT @sperosck: With Malloy’s semantic model, we can visualize query results like dashboards, tables, and charts with built in interactions s…

@archieemwood @duckdb wow... that's awesome

"Should Computers Be Easy To Use?" was an interesting read, thanks for sharing! I agree with the author that "easy to use" is the wrong criteria for evaluating software, but I think this is a bit of a strawman. Especially in B2B SaaS, "ease of use" is a bullet point, but rarely the deciding factor. B2C is likely different, but consumer software is also less likely to fall in the category of "praxisware." I suspect most software designers must work with capability/depth as a constraint. I would argue that with capability/depth held constant, simpler is better.

RT @sperosck: Kinda fun malloy thing, with a simple # dashboard tag you can easily create a sticker sheet of possible chart configurations…

@hamiltonulmer My personal site is built using the John Doe template. About as simple as you can get.

@hamiltonulmer @pketh Never heard the term “praxisware” before. What’s the origin?

@voberoi @Spotify My guess is a cloud-based, native integration between Sonos and Spotify.

@hamiltonulmer Ben Shneiderman wrote a classic article about this in 1983:

@bennstancil @fpweidinger @reneeshah123 I think the big problem is access control. S3 isn't really designed for managing granular user-level access. Things like row and column level security are hard to implement, and best done with a DBMS. This product idea is essentially bundling exec engine, catalog, and BI.

RT @voberoi: (1/4) I've published my annotated slides from @nycSOdata about This talk is a real demonstration of…

@matsonj 👀

RT @sperosck: Dataviz is hierarchical. Unfortunately, our data tools don't always play along. 🧵

RT @voberoi: I'm launching today. It’s a vastly easier way to browse and research NYC council meetings. It'll be k…

@karpathy @voberoi wonder if your recent work could do this