At a previous company, engineering teams selected SLIs and SLOs based on what was easiest to implement and measure. Nobody had devops, SRE, or performance testing experience. Your SLC seems like a really great interactive primer. I imagine a lot of engineering teams need help in this area.

It's a common pitfall to measure what's easy. OTOH, the calculations can be quite arcade and hard to relate to. Many observability platforms have something in place but they leave more to be desired.

Built a wrapper around the bank2ynab github repo to convert and import non-US bank statements into YNAB. If there's enough interest, I'm happy to enable the YNAB API integration to directly import statements into your accounts. Full list of supported bank formats: https://github.com/bank2ynab/bank2ynab#formats

Can you share some examples of what people are using this for today?

You can learn more about our solutions here https://www.narrative.bi/solutions

But let me describe the most popular use cases:

1. Report automation. People connect their marketing data sources and get automated reports on key metrics 2. Anomaly detection. We generate alerts when we see unusual patterns that affect your key business metrics 3. Natural language insights: we uncover interesting patterns and correlations in your data and provide recommendations on how you can improve/optimize your campaigns

Do you use that data for training? Given this:

> We started as a freemium product and built a unique business data set. We used this dataset to launch NBI.AI - a Generative BI platform that can be connected to virtually any structured data source

it sounds as if you have done so in the past.

We don't use customers' data (eg data from your data sources) for training purposes. What we use is meta-data like objectives, behavioral data, preferences and feedback loop (was it helpful y/n) to personalize the insights.

"we don't use customer data, we process it and use the generated data"

The next logical step after ad tracking -- you will use their website and willingly give them your info for better surveillance.

Not a customer nor have I used the app, but I think one use case you're hitting is the following:

I'm an ad management agency that does google ads for 200x ecommerce companies. Every month I have my marketing specialist create a powerpoint presentation with graphs of their performance + a narrative about it (ROAS was up 23.5% but this was mostly due to on-brand search). Instead of my marketing analyst creating this presentation, I just generate it with nbi.ai.

Do I have that right?

This is so accurate, it feels as if our actual customer wrote it :)

We helped many agencies to automate reporting the way you described: https://www.narrative.bi/solutions/agencies

havent heard of raycast, looks neat! What are the main workflows or automations you use it for?

I am on mobile but I will do my best. I use the Snippets, Script Commands, and AI Commands the most. And Dynamic Placeholders.

https://manual.raycast.com/

I use them for everything from code, config, and script generation to completing trouble tickets (open ticket, get problem and have AI summarize it and make it readable because people can’t English anymore, make a determination/guess on the fix (eg. firewall or other system update), generate the fix commands snippet and ask me if I want to apply them or cancel. Most of these steps is a Python/Ruby/Shell script that takes input from the script in the previous step. I try to keep the scripts small and atomic.

I have a semi-secret obsession with automating nearly all the routine parts of my job and eliminating cognitive load so I can focus on more productive and creative tasks.

Sleep well. Active outdoors 2x per week. Remind myself "Let others be free" - I can't control how others react or choices they make. Say what I want to say and ask for what I really want.

These are great tips thanks. I particularly like "Letting others be free" - it's such a healthy mindset.

Just curious, do you use any apps or tools to help stick with these habits, or is it more of a mental note thing for you? And how do you figure out if these practices are actually making a dent in your stress levels or boosting your productivity?

Thanks again!

I use Streaks to maintain a list of my top 10 habits. When something's become a habit and I feel no longer need to track, then I archive it.

I'll check them out, thanks!

yeah QMK is the best, i have a whole separate layer just to emulate a subset of vim movement using hjkl keys

Oh that’s interesting to hear. I do that too :D

Which emulator do you use or did you write your own ?

I have a standing desk but it isn't necessary, it's one item I had tried years ago. It was a cheap one from amazon. I guess it's nice to precisely adjust the height, but I'm shorter so I just set the height to the lowest setting. Having a monitor arm is key so that I can tilt my monitor towards me.

I have the stressless recliner, standing desk, single large monitor, monitor arm to tilt my monitor towards me since I'm reclined, ergo split keyboard which I rest on the arms of the recliner, and a small table right next to my recliner where I put my trackball mouse, phone, and water. The standing desk isn't necessary, it's just what I've had all these years, but it's nice to precisely adjust the height of the desk based on comfort. The monitor arm is key so that my monitor remains parallel to me. Imagine sitting in a normal office chair, the monitor would be vertical - since I'm reclined, I need to tilt it accordingly.

Are you willing to share a link to the specific chair you have? "Stressless" appears to be both a brand name and a type of recliner, which makes it difficult to search for.

I got the Stressless Reno https://shop.stressless.com/en/c/recliners/reno I visited a local furniture store that's a certified retailer of Stressless and got to try a bunch of models out. I brought my keyboard with me to simulate how it'd feel. The thing to look for - your body should be so relaxed you almost start napping in 10-15 mins. There should be zero tension in your shoulders or your neck (i.e. chair should not push your neck forward or else you'll get headaches).

I just replied this to another comment: Kinesis ergonomic keyboard or Moonlander split keyboard. I personally prefer Kinesis but needed a split keyboard for my recliner. Using the kinesis would've had my arms too high up.

I prefer the Glove80 over both (not affiliated, just my experience). Regardless of exact model, split ergonomic is a game changer.

I ordered one of these to try it out. Thanks again!

Thanks! Can you press a button to do Fn+1/2/3 on these?

Yes! Kinesis ergonomic keyboard changed my life then i moved to Moonlander so i could rest the split keyboard on each arm of my recliner

I've been meaning to get a longer TRRS cable so I can go s u p e r w i d e and release my shoulders even a little more. It's good suff.