Chimpiler started one morning when I got tired of writing another EF Core migration for an ordinary schema change. The workflow is familiar: update a model, run dotnet ef migrations add, check in t...
A share of a public company has a price. Look up a stock and you'll see it immediately: $42, $180, $900. Tomorrow it'll probably be something else. That number looks like the market, but it's reall...
I added an old CodeCube archive to the site. It's a pile of early CodeCube posts that I was able to pull out of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Not a perfect restoration or anything like th...
The last year or so has been a whirlwind. Some of it turned into blog posts, some of it turned into features, some of it turned into separate repos, and some of it is still sitting in branches and ...
I’ve written before about why averages are such a dangerous way to reason about uncertain systems. In Monte Carlo Simulation for Projections and Estimates...
Back in 2002, Joel Spolsky wrote The Law of Leaky Abstractions, and it's one of those pieces that's stuck with me ever since I first read it. 23+ years later 💀 and I'm still bringing it up in conv...
ArchivesLooking for the old CodeCube archive? Browse the Wayback archive.
I first read The Flaw of Averages by Sam Savage about 15 years ago, back when I worked in the finance industry. I don’t remember every chapter, but I do remember the central idea—and it has shaped ...
I've been on a bit of a journey lately exploring different ways to visualize and interact with data on my site. After creating the Article Link Map...
Probably every engineer will have worked with that one person who thrives in the chaos. A system breaks, customers are blocked, and before anyone else has even read the incident report, they’re alr...
There’s a book called Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned that my friend Matt Mazur recently tweeted about. He wrote: “It’s a risky strategy because the most likely outcome is you explore and discover...
“Move fast and break things.” The phrase came out of Facebook’s early days and quickly became a shorthand mantra across the industry. It’s catchy, it feels daring, and it captures a mindset that va...
