Migrating Tableau dashboards: Streamlit code vs. Sigma with a parity gate
Same migration, opposite bets: rebuild as Streamlit code you own, or as Sigma workbooks behind a parity gate.
Snowflake Iceberg in 2026: open format, now without the storage chores
Three Iceberg GAs in one week advancing the old tradeoff: open format without babysitting a bucket.
MotherDuck Flights: pipelines an agent can fly, and why dlt belongs in the cockpit
MotherDuck shipped agent-native Python pipelines. The obvious thing to run inside one is dlt.
OpenCode: a terminal coding agent without vendor lock‑in
Bring your own model, ditch the subscription.
How I Stopped ❄️ Cortex Agents from Auto-Picking the Expensive Model
How to configure Cortex Agent models for all agents at once
Perplexity Search as Code: letting models run the search
Why let a search engine guess what context your model needs? Perplexity's new Search as Code hands the reins to the agent.
Clippy: one Snowflake Cortex Agent, two faces
The paperclip is back. He works at Pro Juventute, lives in Snowflake, and shows up in both Teams and OpenCode.
Triggering dltHub Pro pipelines from Snowflake
Moved a dlt pipeline off SPCS onto dltHub Pro. Still want Snowflake to push the button.
dltHub Pro is here. So is my static-egress proxy VM.
How I kept IP‑locked Snowflake and Azure databases happy with a managed runtime that runs “wherever Python runs”
On-prem AI agents: the signal in three announcements
Three vendors, one week, one direction: the cloud-only assumption for AI agents is cracking.
Cortex Guardrails: one boolean, one job, four it doesn’t do
A single boolean on AI_COMPLETE, a Llama Guard 3 wrapper, and a hardcoded filter string. Useful, cheap, and nowhere near enough on its own.
Cortex Code skills, 90 days in: plugins, not prompts
Cortex Code stopped being “just another AI feature” the moment skills landed. In under three months they’ve become the missing glue: portable, versioned building blocks that turn NPO data stacks into repeatable agent workflows.