Episode 190: Thomas Chin

🕑 1 hour 34 minutes

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