jimniels
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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com
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Comment · 1 month ago
I read C. Thi Nguyen’s book “The Score” a few months ago and it’s phenomenal. Incredibly applicable to our modern age of metrics and measurements and organizations at scale.
(And great quote, thanks for sharing!)
Comment · 1 month ago
good for them. essential infrastructure. pillars of a civil society.
Comment · 1 month ago
there’s a post-apocalyptic novel waiting to be written where civilization collapses and the cable hoarders sit on the thrones
Comment · 1 month ago
> if you have graduated from "big box of cables" to "cabinets full of cables"
I have much yet to learn, cable master :)
Comment · 1 month ago
waiting for the next piece of this story, where your toddler turns 13 and gets their first mp3 player, which doesn't ship with a charger and guess who still has 18 inches of cable left?
Comment · 1 month ago
Post author here.
I didn’t get into my organizational techniques, but agree with your take! Ziploc bags + a sharpie is exactly how I do it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah this is a good one! I should maybe start considering this as a default...
Comment · 1 year ago
My first thought on finding this: needs an rss feed! TY
Comment · 1 year ago
Owner of said personal site here: that's nice of you to say. Thank yoU!
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here: I didn’t realize that misspelling until now. But I like it. Gonna leave it. Thanks for pointing it out ha!
Comment · 1 year ago
author here, thx for pointing these out! I was simultaneously working on some CSS for my blog on localhost and when I looked up some references to older articles to put in my post, I looked them up in the version of my site that was running locally and forgot to change the links lol. Whoops. Fixed now — thanks again!
Comment · 1 year ago
author here: this is a great point, thx for pointing it out! also love this summation
> We are effectively writing in a fictitious language and pass it through a series of transformations until we finally get syntactically valid JavaScript
that article sounds interesting...
Comment · 1 year ago
Cool! Made me want to try building it in Quadratic because you can tie the live data source into the spreadsheet.
I didn’t use the more comprehensive dataset in big query [1] and I didn't use the firebase API [2] either because it's so much data to go through. Instead I used the Algolia search API [3] because it was easy ha.
The resulting charts [4] are, if nothing else, interesting to look at and on first glance similar to what I see in the og google sheet.
Disclosure: I work on Quadratic and this was a good exercise in using the product (and finding bugs). The spreadsheet is available to look at publicly [5]
[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-...
[2] https://github.com/HackerNews/API?tab=readme-ov-file
[3] https://hn.algolia.com/api
[4] https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a97ba432-d6dd-4d1...
[5] https://app.quadratichq.com/file/033d2fa7-b205-4c27-9fce-247...
Comment · 2 years ago
Love this. Maybe everything we do and enjoy doesn’t have to also become a skill and identity.