A simple shortcut to persist through context switches — You edit a function in VSCode and switch over to your Tmux terminal to launch a process. It’ll take five minutes. Before you can check results a red notification bubbles up in your dock.

CI/CD directly from your repo — Shipping code can be a nightmare. With every code push you need to build, test, and finally upload your artifacts somewhere they can be used. With the rise of Docker, we’ve had the luxury of papering over minor differences in build and deployment environments—but we still need to pull, build…

Macros for maintainable, testable data analytics — SQL is an analyst’s bread and butter. It’s powerful, expressive, and flexible — but the more power a language gives you, the more ways you have of shooting yourself in the foot. Better abstractions can help us with this. If we can abstract away bits of code that we use…

Welcome to the birth of a new digital marketplace — Wind the clock back three decades. Pick a random kid off the street and ask them what they want to be when they grow up. I’d bet a hundred dollars on them saying “Astronaut”. It would just make sense. The shuttle missions were still in full swing and Tom Hanks…

Definition and implications of a new kind of epistemology — We have officially entered the post-truth era. With the rise of deep-fakes, lying politicians, and Surkovian disinformation campaigns, it’s hard to get a handle on what truth even is. For a few months I was deep in a skeptical hole where I had truly lost grip on what I considered…

Big Population + Big Data = Critical Failure — We’ve been sold a false promise. Somewhere down the line we tricked ourselves into thinking that truth was a side-effect of volume. “If we collect enough data,” we said, “our overwhelming statistical power will blow a hole in the unknown.” Instead, we shot ourselves in the foot. In his article…