Jason Norwood-Young·Jan 1My 2025 in musicThe past year wasn’t exactly chock-full of groundbreaking music, or if it was I certainly missed it. Compared to 2024, it was a quiet year…
Jason Norwood-Young·Sep 21, 2023Douse the Google Analytics 4 dumpster fire and build your own website analytics stack — Part 1…Google Analytics has always been a privacy nightmare, but at least it used to do its one job well. Then came GA4. I think it’s time we all…
In𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐬.𝐢𝐨byJason Norwood-Young·Sep 19, 2023Human prose to AI poetry: Biko, Buthelezi, and the Tale of Two ModelsSo, you wanna summarise an article, but don’t know whether to fork out for ChatGPT, or be cheap and self-host Llama2 using something like…
Jason Norwood-Young·Sep 18, 2023Passing functions as data (and getting them to run on the other side)Sometimes you write stuff to to prove to others that you’re smart. In this case, I’m writing this for the opposite reason — because I’m…
Jason Norwood-Young·Jun 14, 2023Lessons in AI from the editorsDesigning and building a human-in-the-loop AI system for Daily Maverick
Jason Norwood-Young·Apr 7, 2023String to int hashing: consistent and predictable test data with a simple hashOur overly-contrived example: You’re building a pretty user interface that will order a list of people’s heights. The only problem is that…
Jason Norwood-Young·Aug 1, 2018Ikea, the bitchColonising the Dutch territories, Part 1A response icon1A response icon1
Jason Norwood-Young·Nov 19, 2017The making of a Philippi mapIt’s been a while since I’ve done any mapping, so when I was asked to produce a map showing the Philippi Horticulture Area, I had to dust…A response icon1A response icon1
