https://latini.dev/tags/honest-metrics/Recent content in Honest-Metrics on F. Latini - IT EngineerHugoenThu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/the-comparison-that-refuses-to-compare/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/the-comparison-that-refuses-to-compare/<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - I added a &ldquo;compare two athletes&rdquo; feature to a side project. The chart was an afternoon. The honesty took the rest of the week. A rank only means something relative to who else was in the field - 1st out of 8 is not 1st out of 30 - so a naive overlay of two athletes&rsquo; placings is a confident lie. The feature I shipped refuses to declare a winner unless the two actually competed in the same event <em>and</em> the same category, and when they never met it says so, in a box, on purpose. This is the same discipline I keep writing about for platforms: a number out of context is <a href="https://latini.dev/posts/dora-metrics-without-the-dashboard-theatre/">dashboard theatre</a>, and the honest move is to surface your own uncertainty instead of hiding it behind a clean line.</p>