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Logbooks adapts some ideas from structured notebook computing environments like nbdev and Papermill for Claude Code and other coding agents. This is a pattern I found myself repeat…

That's a great question - right now it is only looking at the results from a battery of several dozen indicators that we compute upstream of the model itself (which saves massively…

CLAVIER is amazing, the wire system alone is such a huge improvement over ORCA, and it's now feasible to make much larger patches and refactor safely, kudos to River for all the ha…

Yep absolutely! It reminds me of writing cryptic perl one-liners or something.

Love 100r! There aren't a ton of examples online, but their livecoding music software/language, ORCA, is a remarkable instrument. https://100r.co/site/orca.html I posted a clip to …

clearly Factorio

Really cool - the stuff they are doing with the Excel API to inspect editing modes is super interesting: https://www.sharpcells.com/docs/blog/monitoring-edit-mode I work with data …

Airbnb wrote a few great blog posts about why they built a standardized metrics layer - I think this one gives better technical context on the "what" and "why" than this announceme…

In practice - complicated time series metrics, especially on top of derived temporal-logic attributes like funnels, activation, etc., are phenomenally difficult to write by hand in…

One of Transform's strong suits is their Tableau integration - they have really good tooling for pushing metrics out to Tableau, rather than relying on Tableau to pull them in. App…

The biggest win to me is: when your data pipelines are in SQL, changes and maintenance can be somebody else's problem. I've had a ton of success asking our marketing and business t…

Speaking as a data practitioner - data lineage is a profoundly hard and still unsolved problem. In the last few years, I feel like we've begun to crack it - dbt's data lineage grap…

One change I have seen in recent years is that I find fewer and fewer new engineers learn SQL, especially folks entering the industry from bootcamps. And conversely, more and more …

I've been thinking about this a ton lately - I think the holy grail is something that extends the spreadsheet UX with the capability to address much larger data sets, roughly equiv…

Algol 60 had lexical scoping in 1960 (while Lisp was in development) and this was known to be equivalent to the lambda calculus by the folks working on it by 1965 or so - https://d…

Always an interesting read. A ton of insights, but I always find it a bit hard to make sense of, and it feels so disconnected from a modern distributed systems context. In retrospe…

I think I shared this last time Sonic Pi got posted here, but Sonic Pi is also extremely flexible when you bus the MIDI output to other tools - Ableton, external synthesizers, etc.…

Looks great! I have a question the planned Alpha 7 feature: "smaller than 32-bit values (char/byte)" - I'm so used to bytes being a fundamental primitive in programming languages t…

for background, the original author of nbdev has a good post outlining exactly how it relates to jupyter - https://www.fast.ai/2019/12/02/nbdev/

This is really exciting! I've been building a data engineering practice around jupyter notebooks, Netflix's papermill, and k8s cronjobs for scheduling, and it's been great...except…

Coming to Factorio from a Scala/streaming/data background, I got the connection pretty immediately - so much of Factorio is about designing correctly for backpressure, such that yo…

I recently got obsessed with some music made for the OPN2, one of the chips modeled here - Yuzo Koshiro's soundtracks for the Sega Genesis: Streets of Rage 2: https://www.youtube.c…

Great to see Orca on here! Really really fun to play with for generative music; I made a song with it last year that I posted: https://www.instagram.com/p/BzVjW7LBv1K/ I also learn…

That was my immediate thought as well - CQRS doesn't fit well with the "everything should be deterministic" principle, unless they have a very different definition of CQRS than wha…