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Blog

Writing on data engineering and AI, neuropsychology, and the human side of technology.

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Data Engineering / AI01

Apache Spark, the open lakehouse, and building AI systems that hold up in production.

  1. Oct 17, 2026SD 2026.290Building a Spark Connect Client in OCaml
  2. Oct 12, 2026SD 2026.285All About Iceberg's File Format API: simplifying the engine/format interface and Parquet's multimodal future
  3. Oct 05, 2026SD 2026.278An Idiot's Guide to Spark Connect Clients
  4. Oct 01, 2026SD 2026.274TUTORIAL: How to Build an Open Lakehouse on Your Laptop
  5. Sep 29, 2026SD 2026.272Hosting an Entire Open Lakehouse on Port 8080
All Data Engineering / AI
NeuroPsychology02

Brains, hormones, and behaviour: how biological systems keep time, adapt, and shape who we are.

  1. Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271We Should Compare Ourselves to Macaques, Not Just Apes
  2. Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271Morning Light Moves Your Clock Earlier, Evening Light Moves It Later
  3. Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271An Unfunded Proposal: Clock Genes, the Histone H2A.Z, and Light Regulated Memory Formation
Human Things03

Society, culture, and the people inside the systems.

  1. Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271A Peek Into The Research Grants Propping AI Safety
  2. Sep 28, 2026SD 2026.271The Chemist Who Found PFAS in Everyone's Blood