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Jason Packer

@jason.quantable.com
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Tim Wilson @tgwilson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Data platform selection—product analytics, BI, infrastructure—is tough! Analytical minds aiming for a data-driven decision tend to do detailed feature comparisons. @jason.quantable.com joined the Analytics Power Hour for a discussion of more effective approaches. analyticshour.io/2026/03/17/2...
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#293: Tool Selection and the Unhelpfulness of Feature Comparisons
The one rule about the Analytics Power Hour is that we don’t talk about specific tools. But that doesn’t mean we won’t talk about tool SELECTION! Jason Packer recently released the second edition of G...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 28/01/2026
Happy to announce the new edition of my book on Google Analytics Alternatives is now available! gaalternatives.guide
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 11/11/2025
As a follow-up to my reporting on prompts leaking into GSC, I present what I believe is incontrovertible evidence that ChatGPT scrapes Google SERPs. www.quantable.com/ai/openai-sc...
quantable.com
Yes, OpenAI Scrapes Google Search - Quantable Analytics
My last story about ChatGPT scraping Google and leaking prompts received a lot of attention, and I was especially pleased to see that OpenAI said that they’ve fixed the issue.  So what was “the issue”...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 08/11/2025
I wrote about a ChatGPT prompt leak last week and now that story is the #1 most read on Ars Technica! Even beat out the crab island story which tbh sounds much more interesting. www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-r...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 23/07/2025
has anyone suggested the acronym FAT MANG for the "magnificent 7"? facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 10/07/2025
(wakes up) "Hmm... I wonder how MechaHitler did on Humanity's Last Exam". thisisfine.gif
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 01/07/2025
Can AI be both a grift and a revolution at the same time? My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic). www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...
quantable.com
The Duality of ChatGPT - Quantable Analytics
by Jason Packer with help from Juliana Jackson “.. the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 27/03/2025
webperformance.slack.com is good.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/03/2025
Why do AI boosters dream of the $1B solo person company? The odds are not in your favor. A $1B company with 1,000 people means $1M per person. In the former .1% get crazy rich and 99.9% get nothing. Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 15/03/2025
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/02/2025
Cool, yea I think Logan Square is a good choice and you can get the blue line down to the venue. (though fair warning it's been like 15 years since I lived in Chicago).
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/02/2025
Yea sadly is gonna be expensive.. Did you look in Pilsen (lower west side) at all? Looks like your search area is just above that area, which does have pretty easy access to downtown. Also you could check Priceline, which usually has some deals if you're ok with rolling the dice on hotel quality.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 11/02/2025
Great record! here in the US I only ever saw the Back To Basics compilation, which is what I had.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 05/02/2025
I wonder if part of why AI bros overestimate the capabilities of LLMs so much is that they (the bros) consider writing code to be one of the strongest indicators of intelligence, and that happens to be one of the things that LLMs are best at.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 30/01/2025
Sweet hoodie Fosca!
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 24/01/2025
Also that LP looks sweet!
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 24/01/2025
Congrats on selling yours!! I definitely would have done the same if I'd been smart enough to buy one in 97.. Pretty sure the only dirt pedal I have from 1997 still is a vox valvetone, lol. On the klone front I have a tumnus that I think sounds great.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/01/2025
Where can I get some? mine are worn out and have turtles and walruses on them rather than ducks.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 14/01/2025
Linus offering to build a guitar pedal for a kernel contributor makes me wish I'd contributed something last year.. or ever. Any linux kernel contributors who want to ask for a King of Tone from Linus on my behalf please go ahead. www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...
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Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 11/01/2025
Would scarf joints help? I've never really understood the benefits of a set neck either. Honestly was just in the market for an LP but ended up buying a tele deluxe instead because I guess I have something against Gibson.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 06/01/2025
Unless someone moved Columbus a lot closer to the lake I feel like that number probably isn’t right
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 06/01/2025
I feel you, my wife doesn't allow tilt-back headstocks in the house either.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 05/01/2025
I’ve figured it out.. The Big “1G” is in base 17, so they are actually only at 18 of the eventual 33 (decimal) schools.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 03/01/2025
A newly built Klon Centaur on ebay, currently $7,048 and sure to go higher. I guess people still believe in magic diodes... I really doubt whoever buys this could tell the difference between this and a $50 klone. Positive I could not. www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...
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Klon Centaur, gold finish, NEWLY-BUILT AND PREVIOUSLY UNSOLD. | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Klon Centaur, gold finish, NEWLY-BUILT AND PREVIOUSLY UNSOLD. at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/12/2024
Looks like the speaker lineup from last year's ReasonablyOKWeek if that's what you're implying.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 17/12/2024
heck yea that makes way more sense.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 06/12/2024
I'm 100% here for more guitar content, though I'm not sure I should be thanking you for putting more ideas about custom guitars in my head. My strat is pretty old and maybe isn't good to keep beating on it.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 04/12/2024
I'm sorry I didn't get your message, but I have a procmail rule that sends everything with the subject "quick question" to the trash.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 03/12/2024
such a bad name, it's like I named it.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 03/12/2024
@marcinp.bsky.social -- what should we be calling someone who is a Piwik PRO professional anyways? A Piwik PRO²?
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 29/11/2024
Happy Unsubscribe From Marketing Newsletters day for those who celebrate.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 29/11/2024
Orcas bringing back fashion trends from 1980s (wearing dead salmon as hats) is definitely the story of the week. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 28/11/2024
Nice, and props for recording yourself doing it!
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 25/11/2024
16K of pure... something.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 24/11/2024
Wow, labelers are are pretty powerful feature. Here's an index of them www.bluesky-labelers.io The US political one seems to work decently well. bsky.app/profile/uspo...
bluesky-labelers.io
Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 22/11/2024
Eclosing? Butterflies don't really make sounds, but they do eclose... i.e. emerge from the chrysalis.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 21/11/2024
I mean, if X isn't using it...?
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 19/11/2024
New post! Why are there 40% less professional musicians in the US than in 2000 and how come vinyl now outsells CDs? I don't know either but I've got graphs. www.quantable.com/analytics/po...
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Power Laws & Why Our New Album Won't Make Any Money
That’s the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it Money for nothing and your chicks for free So said Dire Straits in 1985. When I was a kid, I legiti...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 19/11/2024
Dungeon Crawler Carl is a ton of fun, well suited to the format, and the voice acting is outstanding.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 18/11/2024
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 18/11/2024
"User Journey Volume 2: The Custom Dimension" is out now! We're back with more excellent narrators, more puns, more thinly-veiled allegory. open.spotify.com/album/73EH7W...
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User Journey Volume 2: The Custom Dimension
Josh Silverbauer & Friends · Album · 2024 · 14 songs
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 16/11/2024
This article is dumb and the 300+ comments on HN only reinforce my belief legiscope.com/blog/hidden-...
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Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
Description de l'article en français.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 19/02/2024
My latest article, talking 3P cookies and some Sandbox stuff as I try to understand it all. www.quantable.com/analytics/th...
quantable.com
How Many Sites Are Still Running Third Party Cookies?
The cookies are dying! Run for the hills! Save yourselves! Third party cookies (3PCs) are one of the most covered topics in digital marketing right now, yet somehow still remain one of the most confus...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 04/12/2023
I think the reality in that case would be whatever tool they put the most time & effort into implementing and learning would probably win?
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 04/12/2023
My new post called "Outsider Thinking and the Age of AI" is a fun collab with @julianajaxx.bsky.social about leaning into being a weirdo... but like, with a scientific basic and some charts and stuff. www.quantable.com/working/outs...
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 30/11/2023
I do, however, have an opinion on Larry Summers. 🤬
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 23/11/2023
It's replicants all the way down I see.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 16/11/2023
I believe it's now called the mathematical double-struck capital X app.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 14/11/2023
@mareklecian.bsky.social good point, lol. Honestly there's quite a lot of good stuff in there like user-agent reduction, DoH, ummm... probably some other stuff too? But the core ad-tech stuff is pretty meh.
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Jason Packer @jason.quantable.com · 14/11/2023
And I sometimes have wondered why people think I don't like Google....
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