Currently Posting on Substack
For anyone currently keeping tabs or coming here from links: I’m currently posting primarily on substack here. However, the posts will eventually make it back as this is my preferred archival spot.
Inviting Epiphany
A chronicle of insights and discoveries
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How Machine Learning Products are Different (Part 2, Entity Resolution Checklists)
Last time I talked a bit about the context of my experience with Machine Learning products and the high level issues we had getting customers to switch to what was clearly a better product. This time I get into some technical examples from these checklists and try to demonstrate the conflict. The first and most […]
How Machine Learning Products are Different (Part 1, High Level)
First some context. My direct experience over the last decade+ has been mostly B2B selling enterprise grade software to large corporates and so my perspective is skewed this way. I have had many conversations with folks working in the small business and consumer spaces and know those can be very different worlds. When you sell […]
Don’t Overlook Tech Writers
Early in my career I believed that Tech Writers were a interface role to Marketing and Sales. As a product focused developer, I didn’t understand the true value of Tech Writers beyond cleaning up content to make it customer friendly as in the places where I worked this is the role they most often took. […]
Sandy the Musician (For Sammy and Will)
Sandy was a brilliant kid. School was a matter of course for her, she got mostly As without any major effort. What made Sandy special though was her affinity for music, and she truly loved it and it came to her naturally. Even as a middle schooler she would spend hours each day practicing her […]
The Infosec Apocalypse
The rise of tooling for vulnerability detection combined with pressure driven by Vendor Due Diligence is causing a massive enterprise freezeout for non-mainstream technologies across the board. Of particular concern is the impact this will have on the adoption of functional programming in enterprise and small business B2B development. I see now that the last […]
30 Years of Scrum
There is some controversy as to when Scrum was invented, but many attribute it to Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986. While still new and cutting edge to many companies this 30 year old process has it’s fair share of both proponents and opponents. Seeing as how I started programming at about this time under […]
A safer way to use F# with SQL CLR
Every blog post I’ve read about using F# with SQL CLR involves turning off SQL CLR security for the entire database like so: alter database mydatabase set trustworthy on This is because there is not currently a “safe” FSharp.Core, and so even when building with –standalone you must load the assemblies in to SQL as […]
Developing an Algorithm in F#: Fast Rotational Alignments with Gosper’s Hack
This post is for the 7th day of the 2014 F# Advent Calendar. It has been said that functional languages can’t be as fast as their imperative cousins because of all of the allocation and garbage collection, this is patently false (as far as F# is concerned at least) largely because the CLR has value types. […]
Review: Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 at Lambda Jam 2014
I don’t usually review hardware here, but I think this device stands out as being particularly useful to people who take a lot of notes and/or read a lot of research papers. I read about the Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 for the first time about a year ago and couldn’t help but be impressed. It promises the […]