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...
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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...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
