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iPod before iPhones
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Broken code are broken laws
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Tesla's model may be more "realistic"
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“Everything happens for a reason.”
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Putting down thoughts on fitness, lifestyle, and health
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Decentralization, cars
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Guest bedrooms have become a luxury, but hosting friends and family remains a social necessity.
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Capitalism can be just as blind to reality as communism
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Observations from visiting China at the end of 2023
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A note to keep myself from repeatedly banging my head against the same compromise.
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A thoroughly mediocre and nonplussed view on a unnecessarily controversial topic
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Me confirming to myself that buying right now is probably a bad idea.
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Parallelism with v8go is rarely worth the cost.
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I've been building Pipet in the dumbest way possible.
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The Next Meteor.js
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JSON Patch for simpletons
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mdtss, a proposed syntax for subselecting markdown tables
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The what and why of my project, Pipet
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I recently came across the term “Asian diaspora” and it struck a chord with me. It’s because my…origin? identity? birth circumstance?… is called different things by different groups of people. Each of these focuses on me, as an individual.
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Using v8go with goroutines
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Data warehouses are **not** a new data platform
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Speculation on the near-term future of the Bay area housing market
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Bad ideas and redemption with sqlc, bigint, and JSON parsing
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I keep getting nerd sniped by event sourcing. A warning for my future self.
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A few SQL tricks for optional parameters for create and update API endpoints with sqlc
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Impressions of Rust from someone who learned Python, JavaScript, Golang in that order.
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Direct SQL access for the browser
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Notes from the cold emails I’ve both sent and received.
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A wedge to introducing data sanity to business operations
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Jira is good enough.
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Thoughts on the new regulation of gaming hours for minors in China
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A perspective on what happened and what I should have done to improve myself and the product during my time there.
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The Internet is shifting preferences and changing the shape of the housing market.
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If Dropbox was built just for me
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I’ve been struggling to make sense of open source since college. I remember installing Linux for the first time and marveling that I could get an operating system for free. Why are people giving away something so valuable?
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There should be no such thing as free public parking.
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Some holiday spirit
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SQL shares more in common with bash scripts than most other languages. It's more mortar than brick, used to smooth and adhere chaotic data for human or machine consumption.
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Leveraging AST into a better SQL editor
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An exceptional idea for a database frontend
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Business intelligence is a tempting market with high ACVs, but the climate's been shifting and the market is becoming a wasteland.
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Detailing a thoughtful response to the master branch debate
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As more niche software is developed, usage-based billing should become the new default
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Enterprise sharing. When Numeracy was acquired by Snowflake, sharing was one of the core features they wanted to integrate. One year later
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Well-defined projects have both goals and non-goals. If companies have values...should they have non-values?
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Rambling on languages and committing
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How and why notebooks are different than REPLs
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When I first started blogging, I wondered: What am I going to write that hasn't been written already?
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Hiccups and fixes along the journey to using tree-sitter.
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tl;dr There are reasons, but mostly not.
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This does not constitute investment advice.
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Proposal for a system for managing divergent database state created by migrations in distributed version control
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The hidden cost of storing data as JSON
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Why bother learning a new programming language?
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Some ideas around readable SQL
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Automatically convert screen recordings to gifs and copy them to clipboard with built-in tools.
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Jotted down random ideas on a SQL client I'd love to build.
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How might open source software have made unions redundant?
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Why data is probably a good bet for Valley outsiders and what to focus your time on learning.
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I recently calculated trial conversion in Stripe, but found it remarkably hard to find historical trials. In case others have need, here’s what I found.
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20/20
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Adding React to my side project toolchain.
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I created Faker.sql, my first Postgres extension for generating mock data.
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random stats from Numeracy's Product Hunt launch
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aka users active X days after signup
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tl;dr just use postgres
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exploring the limitations of lambda functions and databases
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Uploading your Google Calendar events to BigQuery
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How long is a customer waiting for reply?
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Tried out ics.py and icalendar to parse Google Calendar calendars with Python (without having to write a custom integration).
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Were https://sentry.io/for/<PLATFORM> pages valuable?
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tl;dr don't be helpful, be useful
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Thoughts and experience after cold emailing 1,000 developers
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Thoughts on potential improvements to data tooling
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User journeys abstraction as a rollup table
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No company *has* a culture; every company *is* a culture. - Zero to One
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I’ve been setting up a Sigma-like replica of Stripe. However, unlike the Gmail API, the Stripe email isn’t built for data sync, but for…well, billing flows.
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Pricing decisions are multi-faceted (your product has an infinite number of potential pricing scheme and price points) and each part of the decision is susceptible to bike shedding.
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tl;dr SELECT * FROM user WHERE subscriptions & (1 << FLAG_POSITION)
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Things learned along while building FormEndpoint for $10/month.
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This year, I’m going to start cold emailing customers.
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Economics of building versus buying in the case of A/B testing tools
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Or things I've learned as a growth engineer at a SaaS company
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It’s best to define a job by the projects and their results. Projects vary by company, but results are generalizable across businesses (especially SaaS).
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Flask is my favorite server framework, due to its clarity and flexibility. However, getting Flask beyond “Hello, World” always feels iffy, with most popular online tutorials being several years old and having been built by educators instead of veterans.
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A predominantely self-taught application developer learns to deploy with Google Container Engine.
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Infrastructure, commodities, and margins.
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Notes on various GitHub API auth methods
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A well written piece on pricing by a SaaS founder
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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A bit of admiration for Elon's breathtakingly simple, even naive, approach to The Boring Company.
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Disclaimer: I know very little to nothing about how investors value private companies. But I’ve never read an article that even attempts to do basic arithmetic around this, so I thought I’d write down my own thoughts.
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Musing on the long-term value of non-engineering roles.
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Why and what happens when you price yourself as a commodity.
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To those hooking into the internals of Jekyll, knowing a bit more about what each variable includes can be helpful.
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You see growth engineering in consumer tech (Facebook, Pinterest, Uber), but I’ve seen less of it for B2B SaaS, so one year in, I wanted to share my understanding of growth engineering as it fits into our business.
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Things I've learned from working on three major pricing changes.
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Taking note on why I live.
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Working in a startup, it’s easy to forget all the random things I’ve done. A brief retrospective.
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To stand on the nose of a dragon.
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I’ve found Gmail’s API surprisingly confusing, mostly because email was so clearly built in a time before JSON. The message payload is broken into parts, depending on the structure (attachments, images) of the email, each labeled with a different, poorly documented mimeType
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For analytics startup folks with prod access
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Reading through major S-1s, starting with Atlassian.
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We’ve been using Redash at Sentry lately. I’d never heard of it before (Mode being the frontrunner in this category), but it’s damned good so far. And before you ask me about Metabase, it’s a totally different use case.
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How to set up a keyboard shortcut for taking full page screenshots only using Homebrew and Automator.
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The journey from Tokyo to Kyoto might just be a quick nap on the Shinkasen Nozomi, but it could not be a more different side of Japan.
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Itinerary: Tokyo and KyotoMy Map
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Thoughts on nailing down and measuring the "golden path"
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Words said by famous, clever, or just talkative people.
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Really well put together talks on growth engineers. What it is, but just as importantly, what it isn't.
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