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Learn SQL fundamentals using DuckDB and Python. A practical series for Python developers who want to level up their data skills.
I Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell
What happens when you build real AI tools with AI writing the code? Chaos mostly, but also hard-won lessons about what small models can and can't do.
AWS Data Engineer Associate Certification
My honest, unfiltered experience studying for and taking the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam. The wins, the setbacks, and everything I learned …
Latest Articles
Why I Run AI Locally (and You Might Want to)
As I admitted before in posts 1 and 2 I vibe-coded and lived to tell. This post answers the question I kept avoiding. Why run any of this locally when cloud models are flatly better at the task? The …...
The Content Curator
I have now written, tested, and debugged a content discovery agent. It monitors RSS feeds, searches social media, scores articles for relevance, and delivers curated reading recommendations directly …...
HAVING: Filtering Grouped Results
When I first encountered HAVING, I thought, “Why do we need this? It’s just like WHERE.” Then I tried filtering on COUNT() and hit a strange error. That’s when it clicked: HAVING filters after …...
I trusted three local AI models, and Python had to clean up their mess
Previously, I reported that I vibe-coded a tool that reads a blog post I’ve written and generates platform-specific promo copy using a local Ollama model. I chose local models because I’m curious …...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 - What career risks have you taken?
Invitation from James Serra I found T-SQL Tuesday just in time for this first post, and I’m looking forward to participating. What career risks have you taken? The year was 1997. I was delivering …...