Honest thoughts on data engineering, career transitions, and the tools that actually work.
I have a signed royal court family tree that traces my lineage back to the Majapahit era. I want my kids to know where they come from. So I'm building an immersive scrollytelling site to bring it to life, testing Claude, Gemini, and MagicPatterns to see which AI gets closest to that award-winning interactive feel.
Vercel got hacked in April 2026. Not because their security was bad. Because someone they trusted got hacked first. Here's why that matters, and what vibe coding culture has to do with it.
Excel revolutionised accounting, but that revolution is now decades old. For those straddling the worlds of finance and data, DuckDB might be the tool you've been waiting for.
A brutally honest account of SSL errors, mysterious IPs, infinite redirect loops, and what a former accountant learned about DNS the hard way, while trying to connect this very site to Azure.
Power BI is great — until you do the maths on per-seat licensing for people who just need to view a dashboard. Here's how I moved a live report to Azure Static Web Apps using DuckDB-WASM, kept all the interactivity, and cut the cost to essentially nothing.
I used to be one of Power Apps' biggest advocates. Here's why AI coding assistants changed my mind, and what it means for the future of low-code.
MagicPattern. GitHub. Azure SWA. Cloudflare. Kiro. Five tools, zero hosting cost, full ownership. This started as documentation for a mate setting up a recruitment business website. Then I thought: might as well just make it a blog.
The last post killed Power BI for static reporting. This one kills it for streaming too. Azure Functions, Web PubSub, a React SWA, and a Google Maps integration that turns a pretty dashboard into something ops actually uses.
A banking headline about a $253 million profit hit sent me down a rabbit hole I wasn't expecting. Turns out the way companies account for software they build might quietly shape whether they decide to build it in the first place — especially if a sale or IPO is on the horizon.