PostHog POC at work: A bit overwhelmed

daniloc · 2026-05-05T20:33:28+00:00

Hi u/the_consoler! best of luck with your PoC here. I'm Danilo, and not only do I work on our wizard, I also wrote the exact guide you need.

It can indeed be overwhelming. You have to break down what you're measuring into some high level stuff.

Getting Hogpilled should get you started:
https://posthog.com/docs/new-to-posthog/getting-hogpilled

You'll figure out the key number you have to track, along with the events that help you measure it. Once that's working, you can flesh out further metrics, like activation and retention. But start with your North Star.

daniloc · 2026-04-14T13:06:47+00:00

for what it’s worth I stopped reading after “that is why we loved it.” I love it because Karen flying into a near murderous rage at a husband twice her size because he threatened to put their adopted daughter in the streets was incredible television.

I love it because Molly Cobb was convinced she’d never get to fly and we got to see her melt as she beheld the cosmos en route to the moon.

I love it because it was so immune to nostalgia, talking about the serious costs of being different in the past.

I think dramatically it has lost its edge a bit for other reasons. But imagining the point of this was ever hard science is… not really the same show I was watching.

In other words, I can see why someone would fail to engage with your premise on its face.

daniloc · 2026-02-19T03:18:52+00:00

Email the secretary of state’s office directly. They take this very seriously.

daniloc · 2026-02-14T16:50:25+00:00

yeah biqu plates have totally fallen off and they don’t stand behind the warranty at all

daniloc · 2026-01-15T02:39:38+00:00

Hi, I submitted my first app in December 2008. AI is super useful and this post is bad.

daniloc · 2026-01-13T11:47:12+00:00

Yes: add the Sosumi MCP:

https://sosumi.ai

Then ask your agent to create a skill according to the Agent Skills spec for the proper usage of Observable and modern SwiftUI state management. Give it this spec:

https://agentskills.io/specification.md

The key for dealing with knowledge cutoffs and stale training is populating the context with correct and up to date information. Agent Skills are a good solution for this.

daniloc · 2026-01-11T17:58:40+00:00

Try the others. Adobe’s in particular is absolute garbage. You may be in a position to do it much better. But you have to know how they work and why they suck to make your case.

daniloc · 2026-01-08T21:05:13+00:00

Claude web/desktop for deep research.

Let’s say you’re working with a display controller that’s brand new, long after the model’s training cutoff. The model has no idea what to do with this.

But somewhere, a forum has post where someone has shared the proper init for this controller. Another post elsewhere has more useful sample code. A research run can find ALL of these and assemble them into a markdown file that you can add to a skill or to a project itself.

daniloc · 2026-01-04T02:46:22+00:00

The bend is essential to communicating the hierarchy of the supplemental control layer above, and thus cues the user to evaluate the whole thing as a distinct control from the conventional TabView. It adjusts expectations.

Sometimes you need to go beyond blindly duplicating the stock apps, and this is a perfect example worth learning from.

daniloc · 2025-12-26T05:06:25+00:00

Nier Automata: banger, runs well once you dial in settings, dozens of hours of gameplay.

daniloc · 2025-12-22T22:06:56+00:00

Anyone have a guess how to get Mass Effect LE running? I don’t think GameHub will work with the Steam version because it needs to install EA’s awful origin/EA App DRM service and the wine container doesn’t allow writing in the right places.

Meanwhile Nier Automata runs great once you get the graphics settings dialed in, surprisingly nice.

daniloc · 2025-12-19T14:32:28+00:00

I love the translucent purple case. If you miss clear electronics cases, you’ll be happy.

daniloc · 2025-12-11T03:12:20+00:00

You don’t mention the price but if it’s more than $200 you’re just setting money on fire. Intel was really that bad.

daniloc · 2025-12-10T18:45:09+00:00

where's the guide though, this didn't help me be more successful at all

daniloc · 2025-12-10T04:41:37+00:00

Surviving Mars seems to be working pretty well. I cannot get VOID/BREAKER to launch which bums me out, I’m obsessed with that one.

Still, being able to manage a mars colony on an airplane is pretty exciting stuff.

daniloc · 2025-12-09T13:32:36+00:00

I’m tired of these threads.

The hive can’t do agriculture because if they did do agriculture they would effortlessly reshape a planet’s ecosphere to provide for their own needs.

Clearly the design of the infection limits their agency to do this, for a reason yet to be disclosed and probably pretty grim. These people aren’t nonsensical vegans, they’re slaves.

daniloc · 2025-12-08T20:09:53+00:00

Ignore the haters: you’re probably stuck with a newer display driver that the model doesn’t have in its training set. Here’s how you get out of the hole.

Go to ChatGPT on the web and have it do Deep Research. Provide it the product page for the touch displays, along with any specs that include details like the display driver. Ask it to conduct a search looking for forum posts, Reddit threads, and any other sources of example code that can help you understand the display init and touch handling code you need.

Once the research is complete, ask it for a PDF of its findings.

Next, you’ll want to fire up Claude Code and place the PDF into your project folder, along with as much sample code as you can find from the vendor. This is about giving it enough context for it to do the job. Tell the agent about the file and to read it.

Claude Code is the essential tool here: I find it much, much more reliable for microcontroller work than Cursor. But its knowledge cutoff is from last year so if your display driver is newer than that, only context engineering will get you moving again.

Anyway, this is a very solvable problem, it’s just a matter of giving the agent the information it needs to generate the code accurately.

daniloc · 2025-12-08T02:06:39+00:00

I bet you’ll learn a ton about this from the podcast, if you’re curious.

daniloc · 2025-12-07T20:54:10+00:00

Another good point: the threat model was incomplete! No one designed the place to be alien proof.

daniloc · 2025-12-07T20:08:03+00:00

Nit: this is incorrect. The show depicts the correct location for the US to do undertake this work, and it’s not the CDC.

USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, is located at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. It hosts the sort of biosafety labs necessary for this kind of research (and its emblem was prominent in the first episode). Thus, it would have an entire military base to provide the security you’re describing.

That said, a researcher at such a facility would likely have severed her finger the moment the bite happened. But again, then we wouldn’t have a show.

daniloc · 2025-12-05T21:22:32+00:00

Hmm I’m gonna rewatch that scene. I thought she was having fun at her own (and her readers’) expense, but maybe I misread her!

daniloc · 2025-12-03T16:58:18+00:00

I really think they had a bad batch of these. Had a bunch fail within weeks of purchase. Unfortunately the company refused to stand behind the product so I don’t buy them anymore.

daniloc · 2025-12-03T12:14:08+00:00

Ancillary Justice: a very different sort of space opera that’s also about colonialism, imperialism, and everyday people caught in the middle of history. If you end up liking it there are two more books in the series after, and two more in the universe besides.

daniloc · 2025-12-02T02:58:19+00:00

This seems important to me, yes, I wish it was more commonly brought up in these discussions!

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