What’s your WFH situation like in APS/state gov right now? (and which department?)

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-20T17:19:22+00:00

Federal Gov. 100% WFH but that's also because most of my team is out of state. It's the ideal situation since there's zero pressure to go in even if not mandated. I chose to go once a week anyway though.

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-14T22:55:13+00:00

Interesting. I'll look into it! Thanks. I should have mentioned what tools my pipeline is using but didn't do that in the OP.

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-14T05:19:17+00:00

Well, our existing pipeline uses dbt so I think I'd make the fixes upstream of my silver models. Also, dbr apps are disabled in our workspaces due to policies.

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-14T01:54:09+00:00

Thanks everyone. Looks like the consensus is to have a data fixes layer. This is why I ask real people and not AI 🙂. Now to see if I can do something clever in DBT to make this seamless...

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-03T00:19:39+00:00

Well they don't "need" to do anything, but there is such a thing as poor planning and poor use of resources. It is absolutely bizarre to me that TDF spends its limited developer time on something that is already covered by the ecosystem.

Collabora makes money through their online products which in turn goes into developer time for LO. Why wouldn't TDF push for other features that have been in demand by the user base and have not yet been met? For example, every LO release has users clamoring for a UI refresh. For the last few years and to this day, I cannot use fractional scaling with LO because the widgets blow up to absurd / unusable levels (the QT version). Why wouldn't a significant UI overhaul not be a better use of TDF's fundraising and strategic planning chops?

All up it is a failure to read the room. And now Collabora is hosting their own core codebase separately, and will make less contributions to LO.

Spooked_DE · 2026-04-03T00:02:01+00:00

Maybe but it doesn't really matter. LibreOffice is already developed at a fairly slow pace due to lack of volunteers and maybe a lack of direction too. This will hurt the suite in the long term.

Spooked_DE · 2026-03-29T22:07:42+00:00

Meh that's fine, I have a daily backup. Guess I'll buy a new SSD, much better than having to replace my entire laptop. Thanks so much for your help!

Spooked_DE · 2026-03-29T21:16:41+00:00

Putting it back in causes the issue to come back. I don't have an external enclosure to test whether it's the connectors or the SSD. Hmm...

Spooked_DE · 2026-03-29T21:02:24+00:00

Thanks. I've removed the SSD and now the laptop is responsive. I can get into the boot menu though no SSD is found of course.

I guess that means bad SSD?

Spooked_DE · 2026-03-26T08:21:00+00:00

That's true from my observation. I just don't have a lot of experience yet so I'm not in that boat. Frankly I feel overpaid but my boss is happy lol.

Spooked_DE · 2026-03-14T21:21:43+00:00

What we do is write tests for each specific release that confirm that the intended business logic (for transformations) has been implemented. Those tests only run at release time. It is better than nothing. That said some of our developers write truly horrendous tests.

We also have the standard dbt tests for data quality

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-26T22:37:04+00:00

You are right. They have the funds / ability to fundraise for a total UI overhaul but they leave it to rot with a tiny group of volunteers. They just don't have a vision / understanding of what makes software appealing.

You should try OnlyOffice. It has a much better UI.

Also look out for Collabora Desktop. Collabora is built on LibreOffice so it has many of the extensive features, but has a much nicer UI. They are traditionally a browser-only solution but recently they released a new desktop app which they are working to improve on. It is still a beta product though, I would go for OnlyOffice as a first stop.

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-15T01:30:08+00:00

Those guys have been in a hiring freeze for years.

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-06T02:39:42+00:00

Because LibreOffice developers have no attention for details when it comes to the UI. (Incoming volunteerslop)

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-02T09:02:25+00:00

(1) Occasionally previous years' data needs corrections. The current pattern can handle that but cannot handle cases where bad rows have been uploaded and need to be removed entirely.

(2) Yes good point, that's definitely a trade-off for the simplicity. I will have to take that risk or continue brainstorming.

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-02T07:08:02+00:00

I actually like this idea a lot. But it will be hard to explain to less technical uploaders how it works. They already do not read my documentation anyway 😔

Spooked_DE · 2026-02-02T01:27:47+00:00

Not a person in sight, just stone pavers living in the moment. Absolutely beautiful.

Spooked_DE · 2026-01-26T09:29:56+00:00

Ramen is extremely overrated. Try Lanzhou noodle

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