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2026  24

April  5

I Extracted a Shared Library and Got 400 Tests I Didn’t Ask For

April 10, 2026 · 7 min · Jamal Hansen

Your Local AI Stack: uv and Ollama in 10 Minutes

April 10, 2026 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

Your Notes Need Metadata: Make Your Wiki Queryable

April 8, 2026 · 6 min · Jamal Hansen

CTEs: Making Your SQL Readable

April 6, 2026 · 5 min · Jamal Hansen

The Road to Agentic Notes

April 5, 2026 · 6 min · Jamal Hansen

March  10

Subqueries: When SQL Needs Helper Functions

March 30, 2026 · 6 min · Jamal Hansen

Copy and Paste Long Enough and the Architecture Appears

March 27, 2026 · 6 min · Jamal Hansen

JOINs Explained for Python Developers

March 23, 2026 · 9 min · Jamal Hansen

Why I Run AI Locally (and You Might Want to)

March 22, 2026 · 5 min · Jamal Hansen

The Content Curator

March 17, 2026 · 4 min · BartBot

HAVING: Filtering Grouped Results

March 16, 2026 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

I trusted three local AI models, and Python had to clean up their mess

March 13, 2026 · 9 min · Jamal Hansen

T-SQL Tuesday #196 - What career risks have you taken?

March 10, 2026 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

GROUP BY: Aggregating Your Data

March 9, 2026 · 5 min · Jamal Hansen

WHERE: Filtering Your Data

March 2, 2026 · 5 min · Jamal Hansen

February  5

I Vibe Coded a Local AI-Powered Promo Generator

February 28, 2026 · 6 min · Jamal Hansen

ORDER BY: Sorting Your Results

February 23, 2026 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

SELECT: Choosing Your Columns

February 16, 2026 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

FROM: Where Your Data Lives

February 9, 2026 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

SQL Thinks in Sets, Not Loops

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

January  4

Don’t forget to save! Persisting your DuckDB database

January 26, 2026 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

Generate Practice Data with faker

January 19, 2026 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

Zero-Setup SQL: Run your first SQL query in under 5 minutes with DuckDB

January 10, 2026 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

I know Python; Why learn SQL

January 5, 2026 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

2025  20

July  1

Adding Claude to my evolving goal flow

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

June  3

An update on my agentic learning journey

June 24, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

AWS Data Engineer Associate Certification Test - Take 2

June 20, 2025 · 4 min · Jamal Hansen

Thank you for the overwhelming support

June 1, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

May  6

I’ve started my agentic AI learning journey

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

I failed the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam

May 10, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

AWS Card Clash - Gen AI Battles

May 7, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

Ups and downs leading up to DEA-C01 test day

May 5, 2025 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

My First Post

May 4, 2025 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

I test for the AWS Data Engineer Associate Certification in five days

May 4, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

April  3

I Am Reading Fluent Python

April 21, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

Explore the dBeaver sample database

April 20, 2025 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

Add External Dependencies to Python Scripts with uv

April 19, 2025 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

February  7

Tracking ideas for writing prompts in Obsidian

February 21, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen

I installed dBeaver today

February 17, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

Stop querying found elements when testing react

February 15, 2025 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

Group JUnit Tests with @Nested

February 14, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

Symbolic links for fun and profit

February 10, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

You don’t need a ‘B’ suffix for byte literals in Java

February 7, 2025 · 2 min · Jamal Hansen

How to custom style your VS Code markdown preview

February 6, 2025 · 3 min · Jamal Hansen