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Moving data around still sucks

This week, in between a bunch of other chaos, I got to do something that only happens once a decade... I bought a new Network Attached Storage (NAS) server (a Synology DS1525+) to replace my older DS1…

1h ago·6 min read·1080 words

Things are simple until they are complex

Stories of how a simple thing can get really messy.

1d ago·8 min read·1531 words

Novelty at work is a weird thing

It's not just the "blessed" few who get to work on novel data problems. Every one of us likely does so at least a couple of times in our careers. We just don't realize it.

May 26·7 min read·1322 words

Reflections on building forum software

How has two Thursdays have passed already. Everything's a blur. Thanks, subscribers, for supporting this newsletter's ongoing shenanigans. This week, I went and threw bsBB into the world, which is th…

May 21·9 min read·1678 words

Adding a little BB to the bs

I think it's time DATA got a FORUM. Party like it's the mid 2000s!

May 19·7 min read·1212 words

Live user-on-page activity, the analytics feature that wasn't

Sometimes, people can actually tell when vanity metrics aren't useful

May 12·1 min read·18 words

Somehow we're in an age of spellcasting now

This cycle's Thursday subscriber post is just a peculiar observation that has stuck in my brain and is refusing to let go. As a nerdy kid of the '90s I grew up reading a bunch of fantasy books, as is…

May 7·1 min read·98 words

Counterfactual analysis, an (organizationally) unloved method

A useful tool that's mostly unused because people usually don't like what it has to say.

May 5·1 min read·22 words

The Measurement of Loudness

When it comes to perception, our ears are as complicated as our eyes.

Apr 28·1 min read·17 words

So you've been asked to "take over" some old data pipeline...

When asked to take over a data pipeline, things are never as easy as "just looking at the code"

Apr 21·1 min read·30 words