A hands-on introduction to Jev, TypeSafe’s System One decision model, featuring cat approval ratings, structured AI answers, and a practical DevOps incident-response example in Go.
Can one machine really compete with Spark? I put DuckDB to the test with 100 million records and discover why Parquet turns a 67-second query into a two-second one.
A candid reflection on imposter syndrome in tech, self-doubt, and learning to embrace collaboration instead of impossible expectations
A hands-on introduction to the Model Context Protocol, JSON-RPC, and building a local cat-facts MCP server with TypeScript.
A practical introduction to Apache Parquet, why columnar storage matters, and how Parquet compares to CSV in size and read performance.
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of AWS Lambda, what it is good for, and how to test a Python Lambda locally with Docker.
A hands-on walkthrough of AWS IAM policy evaluation using real S3 examples, CloudTrail errors, request tags, and explicit deny rules.
A practical walkthrough of learning Apache Spark by processing 100 million records with PySpark, MinIO, and a local Spark cluster.
A fun tour through weird and entertaining terminal commands that make Linux and the command line feel a little less serious.
A practical look at MySQL CTEs, recursive queries, and the mental model behind WITH RECURSIVE.