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Development
March 20, 2023

How Epidemic Sound Launched LookML Linting

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About Spectacles
March 8, 2023

Introducing the Style Validator

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Case Studies
December 19, 2022

Warehouse Migrations without Breaking Looker (Case Study)

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About Spectacles
November 2, 2022

What I’m Thinking About after dbt Coalesce 2022

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Development
October 5, 2022

PDTs vs. dbt in 2022 (Revisited)

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Development
October 4, 2022

Looker PDTs to dbt models: Reasons why (and why not)

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Development
September 15, 2022

How to Fix Your LookML Project Structure

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Development
June 6, 2022

Impactful LookML Code Reviews

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Business
May 4, 2022

The Cost of Untested LookML

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Development
April 26, 2022

We Analyzed 1M+ Looker Error Messages. Here's What We Found.

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Business
April 25, 2022

I Founded Spectacles With Someone I'd Only Met Once

Dylan Baker and Josh Temple at Looker's 2019 JOIN conference
Video
December 23, 2021

Spectacles at the Looker JOIN 2021 Product Keynote

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Development
May 26, 2021

Synchronizing Looker and dbt with Spectacles

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Development
April 29, 2021

Extending Spectacles with API-Triggered Runs

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Business
February 8, 2021

Introducing Spectacles

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Video
July 22, 2020

Spectacles Demo with Locally Optimistic [Video]

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Podcasts
June 4, 2020

Get to know Spectacles Co-Founder Josh Temple [Podcast]

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