Honest thoughts on data engineering, career transitions, and the tools that actually work.
For years I typed internal server names into connection strings without questioning why they vanished the moment I disconnected from VPN. Turns out the answer is one of the more elegant pieces of infrastructure design I've come across — and it was hiding in my connection string the whole time.
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.
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.
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.
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.