ian-whitestone/ian-whitestone.github.io

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I'm currently the Co-Founder & CEO of SELECT, a data warehouse cost observability & optimization platform. If you are trying to optimize your Snowflake usage, improve performance, or curious to learn more about Snowflake in general, don't hesitate to email me - I'd be more than happy to chat!

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Add a section with posts categorized by topic

Your current format (long list of links) will make discovery harder. Should consider adding a new tab with posts by category. Categories you could bucket under:

• Experimentation
• Spark
• Data modelling
• dbt (custom tests, triggering alerts from tests)
• Data testing & quality (great expectations)
• Devops (github actions, docker, zappa stuff)

Update about page

Add explanation of blog:

Writing is a great way to put pressure on your thinking: it’s hard to summarize something you don’t sharply understand. By trying to explain an idea, you’ll naturally try multiple framings, flesh out its edges, and see new connections.

• Andy Matuschak

Lazy loading for images in slides

Loading spark in the trenches is really slow.

Example:

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Add support for unfurling

Compare:

To:

Links to help you solve:

• https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-unfurling-but-were-afraid-to-ask-or-how-to-make-your-e64b4bb9254
• https://brianbunke.com/blog/2017/09/06/twitter-cards-on-jekyll/

Make a better personal website

Motivation:

• https://adamrackis.dev/ --> leverages a framework called Gatsby
  • source: https://github.com/arackaf/my-blog
• https://zachholman.com/ --> using jekyll
• https://martinheinz.dev/
• https://medv.io/
• https://joelcalifa.com/work/
• http://talsafran.com/ (awesome cover page / fonts)

https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs

Reduce clutter on your projects page

Only highlight completed projects.

see here for nice exmaple: https://kevindeisz.com/projects

Add a code snippets section

See https://jamesrledoux.com/code/ for motivation

Having a section for statistical tests could be nice, with frequentist and bayesian implementations of both.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/snippets/

Figure out how google gets dates from blog posts

https://seo-hacker.com/blog-writing-101/#:~:text=to%20your%20website.-,Google's%20guidelines%20on%20dates,the%20user%2C%20especially%20for%20news.

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Move appendix notes to the right side?

This would allow them to be read inline with next (ish), and not require scrolling up and down.

Simon has a nice implementation of this: https://sirupsen.com/metrics#user-content-fnref-job-queue-size

Add a sticky table of contents with active states

This would be useful for longer articles...

Examples

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/scaling/#scaling-overview

Implementations

• https://css-tricks.com/sticky-table-of-contents-with-scrolling-active-states/
• https://www.bram.us/2020/01/10/smooth-scrolling-sticky-scrollspy-navigation/