Those Son-Of-A-Guns Laid Him Off! Ex-Big-Tech Worker.

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Rebuilding Apache Spark in Rust?! Sayyyyyy Whattttt?!!! Lakesail.

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Welcome to Omnigent. The One Harness to Rule Them All.

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Rust + DuckDB – Fast meets Faster. Yowza.

There are many things I love in this life. God. Family. The Great Outdoors. Writing code. Reading good books. Writing on Substack. Friends. Pizza. Fishing. Ah well, you get the point. What a time to be alive, the world in tatters, AI upending everything we have taken for gospel for the last … well forever. […]

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How to Orchestrate LLM Calls in Your Data Pipelines

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DuckDB Labs acquired by AWS. What does it mean?

Ok, I’m just going to give it to you straight. No beating around the bush, you came here for the DuckDB Labs bought by AWS news right? Wondering what that means? What does it mean for DuckDB? What is DuckDB Labs, even? Never fear, I got you boo. What is DuckDB Labs? This is a […]

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Writing Rust … by Hand. No LLMs.

I recently had a bit of a self-identity crisis; of course, it was tied to spending way too much time on social media. I do try to avoid the worst of it, got rid of Twitter (X) this year, and mostly stick to Substack, LinkedIn, YouTube, occasional Reddit, and Hacker News. Probably still too much. […]

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Solution > Problem.

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Cloudflare as a Data Platform? Yeah. No.

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Don’t say “I found a problem.” Say … “I found a problem, here’s a solution .. and proof.”

A few things have not changed in the age of AI, where the LLM has replaced 3/4 of the brain power of a whole generation of engineers who once found their meaning in the code they wrote. I mean, I hate to say it’s true, but a lot of folk should have been finding their […]

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