Talks

Choose Boring Technology

How to be old, for young people.

Prompts Aren’t Real

“the textual nature of prompts leads us to take the intentional stance towards systems which aren’t conscious, and thus miss the essential nature of their non-meaning”

Egoless Engineering

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

Data Driven Products Now!

Whomst'd've refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to speak nonsense.

The Push Train

Folk models collide with continuous delivery.

Making Big Changes

I am become Digg, destroyer of business value.

Causal Inference for Fun and Profit

Experiment without provoking mass hysteria.

Frequent Deploys are a Very Good Idea

Conditional probability: can't stop won't stop.

Banning Nazis

It's really complicated.

Design for Continuous Experimentation

Minimizing gazes of disapproval from results-motivated superiors.

Scalding at Etsy

Profunctor optics at scale.

Etsy Activity Feed Architecture

A number of things here seemed like a good idea at the time.