Infrastructure
Your coding agent keeps a diary
Every opencode session leaves a trail in a local SQLite file. dlt turns it into analytics you actually read.
Martin Seifert
Strategy, engineering, privacy, modeling, visualization, analysis, ML, AI. Sprinkle some product ownership on top and you got a jack-of-all-trades decision-enabler 😎
Infrastructure
dlt on a 4 GB pod: loading multi-GB datasets without the SIGKILL
Exit code 137 is dlt's way of saying "your RAM and I need to talk"
Visualization
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.
Lakehouse
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.
Lakehouse
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.
Infrastructure
OpenCode: a terminal coding agent without vendor lock‑in
Bring your own model, ditch the subscription.
Lakehouse
How I Stopped ❄️ Cortex Agents from Auto-Picking the Expensive Model
How to configure Cortex Agent models for all agents at once
Infrastructure
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.
Lakehouse
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.
Infrastructure
Triggering dltHub Pro pipelines from Snowflake
Moved a dlt pipeline off SPCS onto dltHub Pro. Still want Snowflake to push the button.
Infrastructure
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”
Infrastructure
On-prem AI agents: the signal in three announcements
Three vendors, one week, one direction: the cloud-only assumption for AI agents is cracking.