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I was in Rome to attend a teaching conference, and my AirBnB had the most beautiful view overlooking Rome and Vatican City. While having my morning coffee, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento – and I didn’t go through many questions because some o...

From now on, I’m going to be releasing annual versions of the First Responder Kit, starting with this one, which I’m calling the First Responder Kit 2026.

I’ll still release more frequently on Github, but I won’t be blogging about it here. I want to make it easier for folks who don’t update that often. I’m also going to be syncing my classes up with the annual releases...

Tomorrow’s your last day to join about a dozen of your closest friends – well, you’re gonna be close soon – attending my live online fall rotation of all-new classes, starting with next week’s Fundamentals Week 2026:

After the PASS Data Community Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, I headed back to Iceland and spent a few more days gallivanting around the country in a Tesla Model Y camper. (Well, “camper” is a glamorous word for it: CampEasy.com puts a mattress in the back. But still.)

I open it up and the first thing I see is a comment with a changelog showing a long list of dates and author initials.

Oh I know, you think documentation is a good thing, but: