Randy Au

Moving data around still sucks

3 days ago • 4 min read

technical-culture

Things are simple until they are complex

4 days ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Novelty at work is a weird thing

11 days ago • 5 min read

Reflections on building forum software

16 days ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Adding a little BB to the bs

18 days ago • 5 min read

data-culture

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

25 days ago • 5 min read

Somehow we're in an age of spellcasting now

a month ago • 5 min read

data-culture

Counterfactual analysis, an (organizationally) unloved method

a month ago • 7 min read

measurement

The Measurement of Loudness

a month ago • 10 min read

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

2 months ago • 8 min read

TopPost

Code review for data (and non-SWE) folks

2 months ago • 11 min read

How to have way too many hobbies too!

2 months ago • 8 min read

measurement

The era of unscientific management

2 months ago • 8 min read

technical-culture

Dashboard rot as org attention grave markers

2 months ago • 7 min read

data-culture

Please write docs with a theory of mind

2 months ago • 9 min read

hobby

Hobby report: A printed violin

3 months ago • 3 min read

TopPost

Your data work is part of work politics

3 months ago • 7 min read

tooling

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

3 months ago • 6 min read

career

Rediscovering joy in silly computer stuff

3 months ago • 6 min read

metrics

Velocity straight into a cul-de-sac

3 months ago • 5 min read

statistics

Surveys aren't getting easier to do

3 months ago • 6 min read

measurement

Measuring UX friction in practice

4 months ago • 8 min read

A silly desktop motor device for me (and y'all)

4 months ago • 3 min read

tooling

Data work in the fast fashion code era

4 months ago • 7 min read

measurement

Avoid the lure of working on metrics over constructs

4 months ago • 5 min read