Christian Minich

Thread I’ll update with any good data starter packs or lists I come across. Let’s find each other and make this fun and interesting!

Just finished the Hyperion Cantos. Nothing matched the breathtaking poetry of Hyperion, but I enjoyed Rise of Hyperion a lot. And found the conflicting visions of parasitic technology and empathic humanity to be prophetic for the age we live in.

Guy who clicks “remember me” in an Incognito window

Showed my daughter the Magician’s Nephew trailer and when Aslan showed up she yelled “Mufasa!” The kids are not all right

New career goal: get hired by every video conferencing software company and fix it. First feature: “Grandparent mode” — hides the hang up, mute, and video options behind a Captcha

Feeling anxious about the changes AI is bringing to work? Listen to Lenny Rachitsky’s interview with Molly Graham Feeling like you are fully AI pilled? Also! Listen to the pod. Truly the podcast I didn’t know I needed to hear overcast.fm/+AA6K1GyX618

The software engineer’s urge to create Yet Another Yet Another Markup Language (YAYAML).

Sidenote: this all illustrates an recurrent fascination of mine -- how often the blocked to good work is never having gotten to see "what good looks like" like if you've never seen a of datamart or an orchestrator, this feels reasonable. And DE has far fewer public examples than DS 12/

Guy who names his images in downloads before attaching them to Slack

I too no longer believe in the Easter bunny

Got my first custom Slack emoji of me made. You better believe that’s going in my perf review 😎

Today was a good day

I never got a dopamine hit or flow state in coding. Maybe I never dug deep enough, could be a personal failing. But I do get a dopamine hit from a beautifully designed process, a boring and functional architecture. Basically I was AI native before it was cool

The carcinization of data tools continues apace

Carrie and Lowell is Sufjan’s best album, but Age of Adz is my favorite, and it’s not particularly close

Will LLMs make the Lindy effect permanent?

Amazing examples of what the level of data engineering is on average at many, many, many organizations

When I see you putting typos in your slop posts

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper as I run Fable 5.1 on Codex

The best way to learn something is to be Wrong on the Internet. The second best way is to be Wrong on the Company Slack

One of my life’s greatest joys is seeing my kids enjoy things I enjoyed as a kid. Recent example: checked out 2 beautiful adaptations from the Epic of Gilgamesh and read them to my 4 year old yesterday. He enjoyed it so much he asked to read it today 🥹

Short, to the point technical reports are both a flex and a sign of deep respect. “I would have written a shorter letter but I didn’t have the time” has never been more true.

Me to Claude’s editorializing

When your summary of someone's point is longer than their point, doesn't matter if it's AI or not, it's slop

People with my name assemble!

Youngest daughter (1.5) is obsessed with Moana and so now are we all. People singing Moana, songs playing on Alexas, the whole thing. And I’m not complaining, I missed these songs

Introducing Rare: a new social media app that uses biometrics to verify that it’s your own two thumbs that made that dumb point

Why are the anonymous model names so much more badass than the regular names?

See slopthing say something

Used portless today and I never want to see “localhost:3000” and friends ever again. github.com/vercel-labs/...

For every technology, there is a phase where you shouldn’t be allowed to post about it, but you are the most inclined to post about it. Many such cases today in AI

Leaving typos in all of my posts so you know I’m human

Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and Claude English

Co-sign

Got back from a family beach trip today. On the drive I was in charge of music, and we were listening to “Daddy songs” (meaning: no suggestions). The 4 year old doesn’t accept this and asks if we can listen to a song he knows I like, that he also likes. We do Kid knows selling already.

My kids just referred to Soulja Boy as a classic song 💀

I have learned my lesson and will not be bringing a book to my beach trip with my kids. Please clap

My kids (oldest are 13) won’t have phones for as long as possible but I do have a MacBook Air that I’ve branded the “family computer” that they can go on whenever. Amazing to me none of them know how to type on a laptop

One more cup of coffee will fix me

“The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.” I have nothing to add except yes, amen, and read this post: www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-...