Frisky and Xarray Example A couple months ago I was doing some consulting work for a finance group that used Dask and Xarray at the ~10 TiB scale. It was slow. I decided to make it faster. What resulted was three weeks of AI development on
Updated Thoughts on AI Six months ago many of us wrote articles about AI. I certainly did: AI Zealotry, We're All Beginners Again, Multi-Agent Workflows, and Introducing Claude Chic. It feels like time for an update. We've all learned a lot…
We're all Beginners Again While interviewing early adopters of Claude Chic I heard two common refrains: "Oh, I'm not very advanced with AI" "Programming feels fun again!" These feelings were universal. I thought they'd be good to share out
Audio-Visual Setup HD is the new tall How we present ourselves has unreasonable effectiveness on how our message is perceived. Aesthetic qualities can, unfairly, be translated into a greater sense of authority. In the era of Zoom meetings,
Biased Benchmarks honesty is hard This work is supported by Continuum Analytics the XDATA Program and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative from the Moore Foundation. Summary Performing benchmarks to compare software is surprisingly difficul…
Short Attention Span Speaking truth is easy. Getting people to listen is hard. Summary This post talks about communicating effectively to a short attention span. It lays out practical writing style advice to respect the reader through brevi…
Cloud Computing is Broken Famous Quote This AWS API is so intuitive it's awesome. My whole team uses it. -– no one ever Introduction Recently I was chatting with an investor about the market and they asked: What do you see coming for the wo…
Decision Fatigue Making decisions is hard work, even if the decisions are low stakes. As proof consider the following questions from your ordinary life: "Where do we want to eat tonight?" "Which toothpaste brand should I buy?" These decisio…
Small Scope Reviews This is a fast blogpost please excuse the brevity. Summary A fast review and merge cycle is incredibly valuable When reviewing, consider highlighting which comments are obligatory because they stop some regression, and w…
How GitHub taught me to Micromanage Feedback is critical to performing good work as a team. Good feedback cultivates quality work and professional growth. Bad feedback degrades quality and erodes relationships. This article explains my expe…
Hammers and Nailguns People often ask me, "What is your tool for?" They want an answer like "AI" or "ETL" or "Training Models". They want a clean and specific application for easy comparison. I, of course, do not give them that satisfaction…
Introducing Claude Chic Claude Chic is an alternative Claude Code UI that provides the following: Style: visually organizes the message stream for legibility Git Worktrees: organizes concurrent worktrees Multiple Agents: runs many sessions