Randy Au

Thursday "interesting things" post

4 days ago • 3 min read

Feedback mechanisms are terrible data sources

6 days ago • 8 min read

How many ways can we database a store?

13 days ago • 7 min read

time

We're almost done with leap seconds for our lifetimes

20 days ago • 6 min read

Learning how others do to their work helps you talk to them later about work

a month ago • 7 min read

learning

I'm not learning coding from LLMs, but product design

a month ago • 10 min read

Oops, I forgot about joy again =\

a month ago • 2 min read

learning

Fixing consistency errors helps you present better

a month ago • 7 min read

learning

How does MP3 compression do its thing?

2 months ago • 10 min read

measurement

Measuring how much of the sky is visible

2 months ago • 7 min read

data-culture

New data analysis can be faster, but MUST be grounded in slowness

2 months ago • 8 min read

More fun with world generation

2 months ago • 6 min read

measurement

So how does lightning locating work?

2 months ago • 9 min read

The fun challenge of enterprise product research

2 months ago • 6 min read

data-culture

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

3 months ago • 6 min read

hobby

Learning By Building: Fantasy World Generators

3 months ago • 9 min read

Learning By Building: Trading Platforms

3 months ago • 7 min read

Silly projects for vacation posting!

3 months ago • 3 min read

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

3 months ago • 6 min read

data-quality

Our most important skill, spotting and questioning assumptions

4 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

The "art" part of setting metrics

4 months ago • 6 min read

Moving data around still sucks

4 months ago • 4 min read

technical-culture

Things are simple until they are complex

4 months ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Novelty at work is a weird thing

4 months ago • 5 min read

Reflections on building forum software

4 months ago • 6 min read