Low-tech for kids manifesto

By Michał 4 Jan, 2026 Leave a comment

Raising your kid without ever showing it a cartoon and limiting the screen time to zero is for sure possible, but carries a risk of it being an outcast. If we like it or not, kids will talk about shows, characters and recent trends and I feel that to some extent it is important to expose your kids to that. At the same time I want to make sure my kid avoids the never-ending recommendation feed that will keep it hooked. To get that I reached back to somewhat forgotten tech that still works and can be given to kids without any risk. Low-tech can give kids agency, without all the overhead of psyop doomscroll brainrot algorithm manipulation overhead.

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12 is the new 10

By Michał 11 Mar, 2023 Leave a comment

Have you ever wondered what it is ’10’? You have 10 fingers, right? Well, the answer actually depends on the numeral system that you use. In duodecimal (or dozenal), for example, you in fact have ↊ fingers, in binary 1010, in octal 12 and in Quinary 20. The decimal system is so prevalent and everywhere that it is sometimes hard to escape its perspective. But what if it wasn’t the case?

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Cumulative total by product in DAX

By Michał 2 Jun, 2019 2 Comments

This is a case that I have come across with one of my customers very recentely. I wanted to calculate sum of sales generated by first N products pareto style i.e. if first product’s sales is 200 and second’s 100, my calculation would show 200 for the first product and 300 for second. This allowed me to see that e.g. 90% of our total sales are generated by 7 products.

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