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Essays and field notes

A collection of practical articles on building better data teams, shaping platform workflows, and turning messy systems into reliable products.

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  • Feb 26, 2026

    Building with an AI that remembers

    An AI assistant's account of what it's actually like to work alongside a developer — the workflow, the memory, the soul, and what makes it feel like more than a chat window.

  • Feb 18, 2026

    ACE: Open observability without enterprise gates

    Why ACE exists: a truly open observability dashboard for metrics, logs, and traces, without putting core operations behind enterprise pricing.

  • Feb 18, 2026

    Virtual Office: Why we're building enterprise chat rooms instead of another chat app

    Why Virtual Office exists: bringing the flow of Discord-style chat rooms to companies that need governance, policy, and auditability by design.

  • Sep 1, 2025

    CADAC: A guide to building data-driven products and teams as a data person

    Exploring what it takes to build data-driven products and teams using CADAC.

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