Simon Aubury

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[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

New project:🪴 Zara the pot-plant and her AI gardener. An AI agent reads my pot-plant’s sensors, looks at a photo of her and then decides which way to rotate her, watering her if required or adjusting the blinds then posts the result to Instagram.
https://t.co/IjxrkxiMbA

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

Blogged: I don’t need an untrusted LLM to tell me I’m spending too much on coffee. Analysing my personal spending data with a local large language model, chaining and a local MCP server with data mastered in DuckDB. ☕️ https://t.co/V8x1agrXoH

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

When plans change at 500 feet: Complex event processing of ADS-B aviation data. Using open-source #ApacheFlink and #kafka stream processing to process real time aviation data to find missed approaches and paired runway landings…

https://t.co/xQL5KQLK2Y

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

This is a great read for anyone interested in databases - great retrospective of 2024 with heaps of information I’d not been aware of behind the scenes

[Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓 @rmoff]

Too many vendors post completely half-assed year-in-review or year-ahead posts—which makes this post from Andy Pavlo so refreshing to read. Hugely informative and wittingly written too: https://t.co/lOUwt6tp83

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

🐶A new "pet project" to track Barney’s🐾 weight, sleep habits, and activity📊. @home_assistant , @SnowflakeDB CotexAI and a @streamlit application allows me to ask questions like “How much heavier is Barney this month?” 🐕💡.

Blog and code https://t.co/DAqJCIXGVx

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

🚀 Excited to share my first-ever #PyConAU talk: "Serpents and Ducks: Wrangling Data with Python and DuckDB" .. and it's now online! 🐍🦆

@nletcher and I share our🥰 love for @duckdb as a must-have tool for anyone working with analytical data in Python https://t.co/lf75PpmyFt

[Joe Shore @JoeHShore]

Great to get our Catalysts together again! No prizes for guessing the activity this year! #current24

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

Amazing day in Sydney for the #city2surf - the world's largest fun run with 90,000 runners! 14km run, with music and entertainment almost the whole way! Top work to the organisers, volunteers and supporters.

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

Thank-you @krisajenkins Jenkins and @nletcher for the deep discussion about data processing and some of the practical applications for #DuckDB.

[Kris Jenkins @krisajenkins]

I'm joined this week by the wonderful @SimonAubury and @nletcher to talk about #DuckDB at work.

DuckDB's great, and it's so feature-packed you could write a whole book on it. Which they did, and they're here to share some of the best bits... 😁

https://t.co/u6khm0IQRG

[Ned Letcher @nletcher]

Around 18 months ago, I noticed a critical mass of excitement happening around #DuckDB. A number of folks whose opinions I value and trust were saying some very bullish things about its applications for data engineering and data science, and so I decided it was time to jump down the rabbit hole. 🦆🐇✨

Turns out this rabbit hole went a little deeper than I expected. 18 months later, I'm happy to say that 'Getting Started with DuckDB: A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows', by @SimonAubury and myself, and published by @PacktPublishing, is now available! 🎉

Whether you’re a seasoned data practitioner or new to working with analytical data, this book will help you quickly get across where DuckDB sits in the data ecosystem and understand how you can apply its powerful and versatile analytical capabilities in your workflows and projects.

The book is available in both physical and e-book forms: https://t.co/jet4xtOyFk

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

🚀 Thrilled to announce our book "Getting Started with DuckDB" is published! 🦆📖 @nletcher and I wrote a practical guide to using @duckdb to supercharge data science, analytics & engineering workflows.

Big thanks to our amazing team at @PacktPublishing . Grab your copy now 🛒: https://t.co/75zWICYtQR 📖✨

#DuckDB #DataEngineering #BookLaunch

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

@nbuesing @tlberglund @gAmUssA @jbfletch_ This is so cute 🥰 and an amazing gift. Happy Father’s Day @nbuesing

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

🚀 Excited to share my latest build … FridgeBot! A project to give #OpenAI GPT-4o 🤖mixed modality model a real challenge — helping me keep on top of the weekly shopping list🛒! Blog ... https://t.co/6ZEdLWjemf

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

Sydney half marathon ✅ done. The weather wasn’t great ☔️ but the route was amazing! Loved the sights and atmosphere running 21.0975 km through our beautiful city.

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

@rmoff This is absolutely amazing - perhaps snowy 🐈‍⬛ needs something similar to narrate her day.

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

@OlenaKutsenko @FTisiot @tlberglund @TheDanicaFine Cool video- thanks for the wonderful memories! 📸

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

@ale_amurray @confluentinc @tlberglund @nbuesing @daveklein @antonmry @KateStanley91 @OlenaKutsenko @gunnarmorling @Omnia_G @vintechie So wonderful to see folks together in London who could make it; thank you @ale_amurray and team for organising

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

A #StreamingSelfie with the incredible @TheDanicaFine 🪴 and amazing @nbuesing ✈️. Such wonderful folk to hang out with at #KafkaSummit London 🇬🇧. Looking forward to today’s locknote to wrap up a wonderful event.

[Simon Aubury @SimonAubury]

#StreamingSelfie with the wonderful @ale_amurray, inspiring @OlenaKutsenko and the fabulous @tlberglund So many great folk to meet at #kafkasummit

[Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓 @rmoff]

🏃‍♂️ Good morning #kafkasummit! #kafkasummit5k