Tim Burns
The War on Drugs
I'm super excited about the new album by the War on Drugs: I Don't Live Here Anymore. The first single, Living Proof, has been out since...
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Tim Burns
Oct 23, 20211 min read
Jeff Lederer and the Eightfold Path
I branched out this week on my dashboard and added a few new filter items. KEXP DJ Favorites In so, I discovered another new artist: Jeff...
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Tim Burns
Oct 16, 20211 min read
New Band on my Radar: Nation of Language
My article was published in Geek Culture on Medium last week, and I'm pleased with how it turned out, even if it didn't get many hits or...
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Tim Burns
Oct 11, 20215 min read
New Music Through Better Data Analytics
The Author rooting for his non-Seattle Team At some point in my adult life, embarrassedly early, I might add, I realized I am not cool...
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Tim Burns
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Oh My, Look at the Time
So I didn't want to end up here, but every BI tool I tried to visualize the KEXP data ended up in a dead-end and Tableau was my last...
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Tim Burns
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Best of Breed on the Data Stack
Each vendor that works on the data stack wants to provide a whole solution, but nimble competitors will always overcome sheer amounts of...
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Tim Burns
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Scripting a Snowflake Stage for AWS
Scripting a Snowflake Stage for AWS is straightforward, but it's easy to get tripped up on the details. 1. Create a Shared Environment...
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Tim Burns
Oct 5, 20212 min read
Fundamental Data Architecture - The Scheduler
Picking a scheduler is the most fundamental architecture choice one can make. Why? The scheduler drives the entire system and defines...
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Tim Burns
Oct 3, 20211 min read
The Importance of Real Radio
P-Town Artist Alley photo by Author Listening to music is important to my mental health. That is why I listen to KEXP. It brings new...
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Tim Burns
Sep 30, 20212 min read
Snowflake Data Ingestion Design Choices
Photo by Author's Wife on Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown As I was playing around with the KEXP Playlist data, I realized that we have...
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Tim Burns
Sep 29, 20212 min read
A Personal Project - KEXP Favorites Alert
The Author Enjoying some Time at Patriot Place Maybe I'm just old, but AI algorithm playlists like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora...
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Tim Burns
Sep 22, 20211 min read
Random Advice: Commit Messages
I reviewed The Missing Readme for the Geek Culture magazine and it's a little gem of a book filled with wisdom. I like the link to this...
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Tim Burns
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Dear Tim Burns, this gonna to be a good day
and this is why... It's the full moon Autumn equinox is Wednesday Auspicious time for big changes I may hear great news... But mostly,...
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Tim Burns
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a Great Show Ted Lasso is my favorite show on TV right now. The main character is a Football coach turned Soccer coach in...
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Tim Burns
Sep 11, 20214 min read
What is this TODO Sticky that Says #deltasharing?
I enjoyed writing the Snowflake articles. However, the computing time to write the queries cost me $25. In addition, the queries on my...
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Tim Burns
Sep 9, 20211 min read
Who Dis?
My articles made the cover of the Snowflake Medium Blog. Organize Role-Based Access in Snowflake using Stored Procedures and...
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Tim Burns
Sep 7, 20213 min read
Book Review: The Missing Readme
I just started reading The Missing Readme after an interesting interview on Software Engineer Daily. Some quick notes: It's written by...
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Tim Burns
Sep 7, 20212 min read
Happy Rosh Hashanah
I'm not Jewish, but early September has always felt like a new year to me. This year is no different. After a sometimes quiet,...
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Tim Burns
Sep 4, 20211 min read
Tableau Surprise - When I searched for KEXP
KEXP - Where the Music Matters As I searched for my daily fix of KEXP, I ran across a Tableau demo dashboard devoted to KEXP. Way to go,...
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Tim Burns
Sep 3, 20211 min read
Retrospectives: A Critical Role Example
Those who know me well know that I am a Critter and an avid Table Top Role Playing game fan. For those that don't know about Critical...
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