Jon Walls
@jonwalls.dev
Enthusiastic hacker. Startup veteran (Rill Data, Retool, Looker, Apptio). I like it when things "just work" but have been known to tweak bits and bytes to get things "just so".
My (limited!) experience is
- Forgive yourself your first recordings. You’ll get better, but first you must ship.
- You do get used to yourself. Enough so you’re focused on what you’re trying to achieve.
- The only criticism that really hurts is of your ideas. Same risk as writing them down!
- Forgive yourself your first recordings. You’ll get better, but first you must ship.
- You do get used to yourself. Enough so you’re focused on what you’re trying to achieve.
- The only criticism that really hurts is of your ideas. Same risk as writing them down!
June 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
My (limited!) experience is
- Forgive yourself your first recordings. You’ll get better, but first you must ship.
- You do get used to yourself. Enough so you’re focused on what you’re trying to achieve.
- The only criticism that really hurts is of your ideas. Same risk as writing them down!
- Forgive yourself your first recordings. You’ll get better, but first you must ship.
- You do get used to yourself. Enough so you’re focused on what you’re trying to achieve.
- The only criticism that really hurts is of your ideas. Same risk as writing them down!
The performance and editing are skills for sure.
“Artifice” implies dishonesty but it’s like learning an instrument: authentic performance takes lots of practice.
Without practice, the audience pays more attention to the quality of the performance than anything you actually say.
“Artifice” implies dishonesty but it’s like learning an instrument: authentic performance takes lots of practice.
Without practice, the audience pays more attention to the quality of the performance than anything you actually say.
June 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The performance and editing are skills for sure.
“Artifice” implies dishonesty but it’s like learning an instrument: authentic performance takes lots of practice.
Without practice, the audience pays more attention to the quality of the performance than anything you actually say.
“Artifice” implies dishonesty but it’s like learning an instrument: authentic performance takes lots of practice.
Without practice, the audience pays more attention to the quality of the performance than anything you actually say.
Good policy. LLMs are useful, but have also provided plenty of examples of how knowing when to say “no” is important!
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good policy. LLMs are useful, but have also provided plenty of examples of how knowing when to say “no” is important!
Scenarios where including a viz guru is better/faster: cheaper:
- data needs wrangling
- viz work is 10x faster with data tools
- most data does not “speak” w/o normalisation, or variance, or cohorting, or …
- viz gurus make *interactive* tools
- can export viz to vector formats for design collab.
- data needs wrangling
- viz work is 10x faster with data tools
- most data does not “speak” w/o normalisation, or variance, or cohorting, or …
- viz gurus make *interactive* tools
- can export viz to vector formats for design collab.
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Scenarios where including a viz guru is better/faster: cheaper:
- data needs wrangling
- viz work is 10x faster with data tools
- most data does not “speak” w/o normalisation, or variance, or cohorting, or …
- viz gurus make *interactive* tools
- can export viz to vector formats for design collab.
- data needs wrangling
- viz work is 10x faster with data tools
- most data does not “speak” w/o normalisation, or variance, or cohorting, or …
- viz gurus make *interactive* tools
- can export viz to vector formats for design collab.
I’m in the camp that data vis is a great skill, have spent lots of time with d3.
But can’t think of any full time, long term, inhouse data viz specialists. Except maybe outsourced labour churning out dashboards.
Isn’t good viz work better paid as design, analysis, engineering, strategy, etc?
But can’t think of any full time, long term, inhouse data viz specialists. Except maybe outsourced labour churning out dashboards.
Isn’t good viz work better paid as design, analysis, engineering, strategy, etc?
February 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m in the camp that data vis is a great skill, have spent lots of time with d3.
But can’t think of any full time, long term, inhouse data viz specialists. Except maybe outsourced labour churning out dashboards.
Isn’t good viz work better paid as design, analysis, engineering, strategy, etc?
But can’t think of any full time, long term, inhouse data viz specialists. Except maybe outsourced labour churning out dashboards.
Isn’t good viz work better paid as design, analysis, engineering, strategy, etc?
Emboldening that opposition seems to me one of the more obvious goals of their slogan. Just can’t see the point in criticising it.
I’d also say that if outside pressure is necessary to drive CDU, that pressure is part of the firewall in a very real sense.
I’d also say that if outside pressure is necessary to drive CDU, that pressure is part of the firewall in a very real sense.
February 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Emboldening that opposition seems to me one of the more obvious goals of their slogan. Just can’t see the point in criticising it.
I’d also say that if outside pressure is necessary to drive CDU, that pressure is part of the firewall in a very real sense.
I’d also say that if outside pressure is necessary to drive CDU, that pressure is part of the firewall in a very real sense.
OK. It’s just my instinct from afield that they’re aiming for an audience who a) aren’t thinking “protestors and their idiotic slogans, why do they bother?, and b) aren’t thinking that if the CDU won’t do it, everyone should give up and stay home.
February 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
OK. It’s just my instinct from afield that they’re aiming for an audience who a) aren’t thinking “protestors and their idiotic slogans, why do they bother?, and b) aren’t thinking that if the CDU won’t do it, everyone should give up and stay home.
I think that’s the exact point they’re making - that the CDU was the firewall, the firewall is gone, but rather than just accept it a new firewall is required.
February 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I think that’s the exact point they’re making - that the CDU was the firewall, the firewall is gone, but rather than just accept it a new firewall is required.
I can see the effect of the re-encoding – but it's also rather beautifully in keeping with the inspiration being old Penguin covers. I'm imagining a book cover that has seen better days :)
November 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I can see the effect of the re-encoding – but it's also rather beautifully in keeping with the inspiration being old Penguin covers. I'm imagining a book cover that has seen better days :)