Sep 9, 2025
🕑 1 hour 34
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Thomas Chin is a software engineer in the Data Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Tea Time with Thomas & Ty podcast
- Wikimedia Foundation Data Engineering Team
- Thomas Chin user page on mediawiki.org
- Dependency injection in MediaWiki code (provided by the MediaWikiServices class)
- "embarassment" (2009 blog post by Domas Mituzas about Michael Jackson-related Wikipedia crash)
- "After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis" (August 2025 article)
- "Sealed, sold, delivered: How blind boxes like Labubu became a viral obsession" (June 2025 article)
- Jesse's Teahouse > Pu'er Tea Oranges