Random thoughts

This episode is full of sound nuggets and touches on so many things, music, creativity, AI

World’s Best Music Lesson? with Gen Z Mozart Jacob Collier This episode is full of sound nuggets and touches on so many things, music, creativity, AI

girls using iPod Shuffles as hair clips

xanaxfarts : girls using iPod Shuffle’s as hair clips

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The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication

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How Tinder Scaled to 1.6 Billion Swipes per Day

I asked a couple of machine learning friends what the most influential piece on the subject was and…

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks I asked a couple of machine learning friends what the most influential piece on the subject was and they all linked me to this article from 2015

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A Longed-For Taste of Home in ‘The Exile’s Cookbook’

Ads have an impact on how your app is perceived

When I initially started Tamera I added Google Ads in the free version without giving it much thought. I didn’t make them intrusive, I used 3 small banners in 3 different screens making sure they didn’t interfere with the user experience. My thinking was: it’s another incentive to upgrade to the Pro version, I didn’t realize at the time the other negative impacts of ads.…

17 Equations that changed the World

17 Equations that changed the World

The Reward cigarette

I’m smoke free for almost 7 years now. When I meet friends that still do, their first question is usually how hard is it or what’s the hardest thing that happens when you quit. In my case, it’s the reward cigarette. I’m a programmer by day and by night and I got used to reward myself with a cigarette. It’s like the shower after a workout. You get used to it and take pleasure in it. There’s plenty…

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Increasing Wealth As A Father

I regularly get that question from Product Managers or people outside the industry. This answer is a…

Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? I regularly get that question from Product Managers or people outside the industry. This answer is a long form of one I like: Making software is like peeling an onion, you don’t know how many layers are left until you start.

2021 in books

As always my goal is to read 1 book each month which amounts to 12 books per years. But I’ve always setup a goal higher than that. In 2021 my goal was 20 books.In 2020 I’ve missed it by 1 book. But 2021 was great for reading! I’ve reached an all time high of 23 books read (almost 2 per month)! Here they are: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021?ref=yyib21_strip

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Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs

Productivity++

Xcode Tips 💡 Productivity++

CoreData and discarding changesAt the end of the latest Swift by Sundell podcast, John and Donny...

CoreData and discarding changes At the end of the latest Swift by Sundell podcast , John and Donny talk about discarding changes in CoreData without hitting the database. This is actually really easy to do with the proper setup. John suggest creating an intermediary Struct that we can either throw away or convert back to our NSManagedObject and save it. That’s when Donny jumps in to correct…

Make sure you’re at the right scale for A/B testing. If you have dozens of customers, running A/B…

How Duolingo Runs Experiments at Scale Make sure you’re at the right scale for A/B testing . If you have dozens of customers, running A/B tests makes no sense, since you simply don’t have the data. While there’s no hard rule, a soft threshold is around ~100,000 users or more.

The origin of the Alphabet

The origin of the Alphabet

Tamera 1.0

If you follow me on twitter, you might have about my latest side project: Tamera, a 24-hour camera roll. I’ve talked about the origin story on that thread already but I want to give an in-depth look at what went on behind the scenes. The idea My niece was ranting about having to deal with unwanted photos when she used the iOS camera. She felt more comfortable using Instagram, taking multiple…