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Content Overload: How to Halve Your Unused Content Using Spectacles

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Under the Hood: Understanding Looker's System Activity Model

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Looker Permissions: Groups, Roles, and Access Grants

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A Guide To Looker's Custom Map Visualizations

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November 14, 2023

How to Streamline Dashboard Development in Looker

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About Spectacles

Introducing Our Looker Jobs Board

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How Epidemic Sound Launched LookML Linting

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About Spectacles

Introducing the Style Validator

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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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October 5, 2022

PDTs vs. dbt in 2022 (Revisited)

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October 4, 2022

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

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September 15, 2022

How to Fix Your LookML Project Structure

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Impactful LookML Code Reviews

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The Cost of Untested LookML

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Analyzing 1M+ Looker Error Messages: Our Findings

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I Founded Spectacles With Someone I'd Only Met Once

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December 23, 2021

Spectacles at the Looker JOIN 2021 Product Keynote

Synchronizing Looker and dbt with Spectacles

Extending Spectacles with API-Triggered Runs

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February 8, 2021

Introducing Spectacles

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Spectacles Demo with Locally Optimistic [Video]

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

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