Randy Au
@randyau.com
Hobby consultant, 💎🪚🎮🖥️🎙️🎹🎧👨🍳📷🪛➕
Quant UX Researcher @ [Home] (posts are my own)
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
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Languages: EN/JP/CN
Quant UX Researcher @ [Home] (posts are my own)
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
https://linktr.ee/randy_au
Languages: EN/JP/CN
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Randy Au
@randyau.com
· Oct 30
Counting Stuff
A weekly newsletter about the important, mundane, parts of being a data scientist, UX researcher. With some extra fun about tech and hobbies.
www.counting-stuff.com
So on here I talk about hobbies and crack snarky data jokes. But once a week I also write a very long form data science newsletter. at www.counting-stuff.com
#DataBS
Here's a thread of old posts that people liked [ugh no thread writing interface] (1/n)
#DataBS
Here's a thread of old posts that people liked [ugh no thread writing interface] (1/n)
>.> Saw some clickbait fluff article titled something like "just got a 3d printer? Here's how to avoid hobby burnout" and my addled brain is like "hobby burnout? Is that when you get one hobby and layer on another 3 to feed the fire?
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
>.> Saw some clickbait fluff article titled something like "just got a 3d printer? Here's how to avoid hobby burnout" and my addled brain is like "hobby burnout? Is that when you get one hobby and layer on another 3 to feed the fire?
Guess who's on a cruise but so addicted to the internet that he paid 67 bucks for internet's for the trop
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Guess who's on a cruise but so addicted to the internet that he paid 67 bucks for internet's for the trop
Lol this cat does numbers
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Lol this cat does numbers
I must be on some list somewhere if I'm getting random people blocking me
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I must be on some list somewhere if I'm getting random people blocking me
Omfg pixiv app stop automatically clicking into certain ads in a shitty and probably TOS breaking manner wtf
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Omfg pixiv app stop automatically clicking into certain ads in a shitty and probably TOS breaking manner wtf
I'm secretly amused that out of all the gifts the 6yo got this year, they're the most hyped about the blank sketchbook. Even more than the vol2 unico book they wanted.
December 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I'm secretly amused that out of all the gifts the 6yo got this year, they're the most hyped about the blank sketchbook. Even more than the vol2 unico book they wanted.
Between AC7, AC6 and Assetto Coursa, I think we can establish that I am a sucker for games with AC abbreviations ..
Ok can someone make ace combat 8 release faster? Also armored core 6 sequel when fromsoftware. wHeN?!
December 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Between AC7, AC6 and Assetto Coursa, I think we can establish that I am a sucker for games with AC abbreviations ..
Ok can someone make ace combat 8 release faster? Also armored core 6 sequel when fromsoftware. wHeN?!
December 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ok can someone make ace combat 8 release faster? Also armored core 6 sequel when fromsoftware. wHeN?!
Weird how in my 30s I had like less than 10 white hairs and then I get to 40 and my body is like "whoa there. We got a quota we need to catch up on"
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Weird how in my 30s I had like less than 10 white hairs and then I get to 40 and my body is like "whoa there. We got a quota we need to catch up on"
amusingly, I RARELY use my 0.3L mini ultrasonic cleaner. I thought I would use it for jewelry but i ain't fucking risking putting the wife's engagement ring in there lest it crack some hidden flaw in the stone, my eyeglasses are a mess regardless, and nothing else really FITS in it
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
amusingly, I RARELY use my 0.3L mini ultrasonic cleaner. I thought I would use it for jewelry but i ain't fucking risking putting the wife's engagement ring in there lest it crack some hidden flaw in the stone, my eyeglasses are a mess regardless, and nothing else really FITS in it
and thus, I ordered a 10L (honestly ~5L usable capacity) ultrasonic cleaner for $100 because some shit just needs proper cleaning
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
and thus, I ordered a 10L (honestly ~5L usable capacity) ultrasonic cleaner for $100 because some shit just needs proper cleaning
OMFG, so my humidifier gets disgusting inside, as they do, and on a whim I took the removable plastic pieces and stuck them into my tiny tiny 0.3L ultrasonic cleaner with a bit of bar soap best I could... and the gunk just flew off in seconds!! I wish I could put the whole damn machine in
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
OMFG, so my humidifier gets disgusting inside, as they do, and on a whim I took the removable plastic pieces and stuck them into my tiny tiny 0.3L ultrasonic cleaner with a bit of bar soap best I could... and the gunk just flew off in seconds!! I wish I could put the whole damn machine in
う～ん、コミケ行けないし、国際通販はチョーめんどいし、同人誌ならたまにデジタル版があるけど、同人音楽のデジタルって殆どみないよなぁ、若い時代は頑張って、買って、一回あけて、FLACにしてたんだけど、今はそれやってない
December 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
う～ん、コミケ行けないし、国際通販はチョーめんどいし、同人誌ならたまにデジタル版があるけど、同人音楽のデジタルって殆どみないよなぁ、若い時代は頑張って、買って、一回あけて、FLACにしてたんだけど、今はそれやってない
lol, my end of year "fuck it, i'm gonna just write about a hobby this week because it's the last post of the year" post comes in at 3,053 words, BEFORE the end-of-post footer material. Also 8 photos. I'm guaranteed to be beyond the ~180kb bar for gmail shenanigans.
NO REGRETS
NO REGRETS
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
lol, my end of year "fuck it, i'm gonna just write about a hobby this week because it's the last post of the year" post comes in at 3,053 words, BEFORE the end-of-post footer material. Also 8 photos. I'm guaranteed to be beyond the ~180kb bar for gmail shenanigans.
NO REGRETS
NO REGRETS
My feed is seriously lacking in C107 品書き
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My feed is seriously lacking in C107 品書き
Bet no one's ever had to force fill a hot water heating system with a pump in a 5gal bucket through a plastic 1/4 tube before thanks to a broken fill valve that I can't get parts for yet. But it fuckin worked!
December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Bet no one's ever had to force fill a hot water heating system with a pump in a 5gal bucket through a plastic 1/4 tube before thanks to a broken fill valve that I can't get parts for yet. But it fuckin worked!
FINALLY, got an adapter to make an old aquarium water pump to connect to the 1/4 tubing i need. AND a different adapter for a much beefier floor pump if I need THAT. only took like a dozen attempts and all sorts of fucking shenanigans
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
FINALLY, got an adapter to make an old aquarium water pump to connect to the 1/4 tubing i need. AND a different adapter for a much beefier floor pump if I need THAT. only took like a dozen attempts and all sorts of fucking shenanigans
you know you're up shit creek when, in order to get a really weirdo set of adapters, I'm asking an AI tool to generate an OpenSCAD file to slap together the unholy combination of "1/2 BSP thread to 1/4" hose barb"
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
you know you're up shit creek when, in order to get a really weirdo set of adapters, I'm asking an AI tool to generate an OpenSCAD file to slap together the unholy combination of "1/2 BSP thread to 1/4" hose barb"
ok, one thing I've found AI tools useful is helping me figure navigate weird niches like fuckin' pipe threads. I had a broken aquarium pump that had a weird thread I couldn't figure out (wtf is "13mm metric threads" in piping?) but apparently it's something else completely, a 1/4 BSPP aka G1/4"?
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
ok, one thing I've found AI tools useful is helping me figure navigate weird niches like fuckin' pipe threads. I had a broken aquarium pump that had a weird thread I couldn't figure out (wtf is "13mm metric threads" in piping?) but apparently it's something else completely, a 1/4 BSPP aka G1/4"?
This week on Counting Stuff, a reminder that software interactions are rooted in social conventions, and those actually change over time. Which screws with UX research shelf life #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/software-int...
www.counting-stuff.com/software-int...
Software interfaces are conversations, measure accordingly
Nothing wrong with building sandcastles, right?
www.counting-stuff.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This week on Counting Stuff, a reminder that software interactions are rooted in social conventions, and those actually change over time. Which screws with UX research shelf life #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/software-int...
www.counting-stuff.com/software-int...
oh man, I think in 6 years writing, this is the FIRST time I have TWO posts ready and scheduled to publish because one goes out tomorrow and the other goes out next week =O
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
oh man, I think in 6 years writing, this is the FIRST time I have TWO posts ready and scheduled to publish because one goes out tomorrow and the other goes out next week =O
and I guess today is the day i tell a plumber to fuckoff i'll do it myself
December 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
and I guess today is the day i tell a plumber to fuckoff i'll do it myself
Grabbed a 2x2 gridfinity er16 collet box online to print but didn't realize it didn't come with a cover so have to manually CAD up a shitty cover now =×
December 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Grabbed a 2x2 gridfinity er16 collet box online to print but didn't realize it didn't come with a cover so have to manually CAD up a shitty cover now =×