Randy Au

data-culture

No infrastructure is permanent, but it's up to us

3 days ago • 6 min read

hobby

Learning By Building: Fantasy World Generators

10 days ago • 9 min read

Learning By Building: Trading Platforms

17 days ago • 6 min read

Silly projects for vacation posting!

22 days ago • 3 min read

Unstructured data is still a pain in the butt (but less impossible now)

24 days ago • 6 min read

data-quality

Our most important skill, spotting and questioning assumptions

a month ago • 5 min read

data-culture

The "art" part of setting metrics

a month ago • 6 min read

Moving data around still sucks

a month ago • 4 min read

technical-culture

Things are simple until they are complex

a month ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Novelty at work is a weird thing

2 months ago • 5 min read

Reflections on building forum software

2 months ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Adding a little BB to the bs

2 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

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

2 months ago • 5 min read

Somehow we're in an age of spellcasting now

2 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

Counterfactual analysis, an (organizationally) unloved method

2 months ago • 7 min read

measurement

The Measurement of Loudness

3 months ago • 10 min read

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

3 months ago • 8 min read

TopPost

Code review for data (and non-SWE) folks

3 months ago • 11 min read

How to have way too many hobbies too!

3 months ago • 8 min read

measurement

The era of unscientific management

3 months ago • 8 min read

technical-culture

Dashboard rot as org attention grave markers

4 months ago • 7 min read

data-culture

Please write docs with a theory of mind

4 months ago • 9 min read

hobby

Hobby report: A printed violin

4 months ago • 3 min read

TopPost

Your data work is part of work politics

4 months ago • 7 min read

tooling

Daylight savings broke software (again) and other Time News!

4 months ago • 6 min read