The Hive Metastore for SQL Server DBAs: A Translation Guide
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Self-hosting on arm64 SBCs: the pitfall catalogue
I run a real Kubernetes cluster on a stack of arm64 single-board computers. Not a toy — it hosts my Git server, this blog, and the automation I lean on every day. It's cheap, quiet, and sips power, and I'd build it the same way again. But
The OmniRoute backstory
I've rebuilt the way my agents talk to language models three times in about three months. Each rewrite solved the previous one's biggest pain and then exposed the next one. The version I run today routes everything through a multi-provider gateway called OmniRoute — but that choice
Building a shared second brain that Claude reads and writes
Six months ago I got tired of introducing myself to my own AI assistant. Every session started the same way: re-explain the architecture, re-list the repos, re-state the decisions I'd already made and the mistakes I'd already learned from. The model was brilliant and amnesiac, and
The Blueprint Era: why repeatability is the real revolution in AI
Every major technological shift begins with a distraction. Early motorists were captivated by engines, not the quiet discipline of the assembly line. Early computer users marveled at silicon, not the operating systems that made it usable. And today, in the early days of AI, we are all fixated on the