28 August 2023

52 links · Monday

Answering "Why did the KPI change?" using decomposition

Motivation Say you’re a data analyst at a company. You’ve built a dashboard with several KPIs. You’re happy because it took you a couple of days of hard work. You even went the extra mile of writing unit tests. You share the dashboard on Slack with the relevan…

Fig has joined AWS!

Amazon acquires Fig's technology and the Fig team joins Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wide Binary Results Favoring MOND

I think the time has come for another update on wide binaries. These were intensely debated at the conference in St. Andrews, with opposing camps saying they did or did not show MONDian behavior. T…

The AIKEA Effect - Artur Piszek

Just like the IKEA Effect, but for the AI products. Try not to overenginner when working with LLMs.

Elijah Potter

I talk about the importance of shockingly fast iteration cycles and lean manufacturing.

Vacation Study Ideas

There are lots of stories where an American goes on vacation for a few weeks, to Europe or Asia or wherever, and loses a significant amount of weight without any special effort.  whole thread …

Reminder of Negative Work

The idea of being hyper-productive every day might seem like a good thing, but it can actually lead to “negative work”. Negative work is when you think you are doing great work, but actually, it’s setting you back because you lack the clarity of mind to realiz…

Build norms, not features

If you’re building a multi-user product, you’re not just selling social features. You’re selling social norms. In this post, I analyze LessWrong as a great example of product design, carefully designed to build strong social norms.

Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood

“Premature Optimization” You might have come across the famous software optimisation quote popularised by Donald Knuth: Premature optimization is the root of all evil. – Sir Tony Hoare It has been commonly interpreted as “don’t think about performance in the b…

Living an examined life · Mike San Román

After sharing my weekly reviews for the last six weeks, one question that I've been asked a few times is: _"Why do you do this?"_ often hinting not only at the practice itself, but at the level of gr

The Tale of a Corrupt Backup

As I mentioned in the post about my backup system, I run restic check regularly, to test the integrity of my backup. It has never reported any error in my repository. It performs a quick, shallow check, and does not verify that all the data is intact. I also r…

Announcing the Foundational C# Certification

We are excited to announce the release of the new Foundational C# Certification in collaboration with freeCodeCamp! The certification is completely free, glo...

Weekly 0066

Monday In the morning I had a call with my co-founder Dereck about defining the final...

Computer Vision on Azure with C#

Exploring Computer Vision in C# through a Polyglot Notebooks notebook and a sample application. Also known as Azure AI Vision or Cognitive Services Computer ...

Season 6 Teaser

Brace yourselves, developers! The .NET Core Podcast has transformed into The Modern .NET Show. We're stoked to share our revamped identity and music with yo...

373: Installing the .NET 9 Alpha

That is right... .NET 8 RC isn't out yet and .NET 9 is here already and we installed it! We discuss how to install the latest bits of .NET and why you may need them.

Algorithm for offsetting a latitude/longitude by some amount of meters

I'm looking for an algorithm which when given a latitude and longitude pair and a vector translation in meters in Cartesian coordinates (x,y) would give me a new coordinate. Sort of like a reverse

Marten Linq Provider Improvements

A couple years ago I was in a small custom software development shop in Austin as “the .NET guy” for the company. The “Java guy” in the company asked me one day to try to na…

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