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Plumbing AI into my personal data platform
I was skeptical about handing transaction categorization to an LLM, building it anyway was the only way to find out if the skepticism was justified.
Home-Plumbing my personal data platform
Comdirect wouldn't give me spending analytics, so I built my own data platform instead of paying for someone else's
Manually push to GitHub Container registry with Docker login
`gh auth switch` isn't enough to push to GHCR - you need a token with `packages:write`, and nothing tells you that until the push fails
First impressions with Claude Code CLI
An AI tool that explains its reasoning and adapts mid-task is a different kind of "collaborative" than autocomplete-plus.
First steps with Harlequin
A terminal SQL IDE that was actually simple to set up is rare enough to write down
Exploring Project Nessie - a transactional catalogue over iceberg tables
Git-like branching for data sounds nice in theory, this is what it actually takes to run it locally and see if it holds up.
Azure Data Factory Data Flow - Oddity of the week
Azure Data Factory silently nulled data instead of erroring. A reminder that "no error" isn't the same as "no bug."