Why We Open-Sourced Alice The glass box is now actually made of glass. For years we've told people that Alice is a glass box, not a black box. That you should be able to see through the dashboard — past the pretty number, down to the exact query that produced it. That...
I’ve spent a lot of time recently reflecting on 2026 as the Year of the Linux Desktop. While I stand by the idea that "opinionated software" like COSMIC is the warp drive we’ve been waiting for, looking back from the bridge of The Mad Botter reveals a different sensor...
Another year begins, another orbit complete. The nacelles are stable, the consoles are humming, and the view-screen is full of familiar patterns repeating themselves — just at a slightly different scale. If 2025 was about correcting course, 2026 looks like a year of...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025.12: We’ve completed another orbit. The nacelles are glowing, the cloud bills are astronomical, and the spreadsheets are still trying to take over the bridge. It’s time for the 2025 Year-End Retrospective. For the developers, IT Directors,...
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I have a bit of a mantra: keep it boring. We live in an era where "Modern Data Stack" usually translates to "six different SAAS subscriptions and a mortgage payment in cloud credits." Everyone wants a Data...
Dredger-IoT brings Ruby to the edge—an open-source, lightweight framework for collecting and transmitting industrial and environmental data from embedded systems like Raspberry Pi. Built by The Mad Botter, it’s the perfect edge companion to Alice’s Snowflake-ready pipelines.
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