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Notes and longer-form writing about software engineering, distributed systems, data infrastructure, developer tools, and the occasional rabbit hole. Topics range from JDBC internals and database benchmarking to AI-powered services, build pipelines, and project retrospectives. New posts go up here whenever there's something worth writing down — typically alongside an open-source release, a tricky bug fix, or a piece of architecture that took longer than it should have to land.

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While you wait — recent project work

Until the post backlog catches up, the projects below are the best window into the current work. They cover distributed databases, JDBC drivers, data integration connectors, real-time analytics, AI services, and a couple of native apps — each shipped with source code, tech notes, and links to live deployments where applicable.

BigQuery JDBC Driver — Modern JDBC driver for Google BigQuery, optimized for database IDEs with fast metadata support
Flight Chop — Passenger focused platform helping travelers understand turbulence and other conditions that may impact their flight
Leaves of Blocks — Free SwiftUI iOS puzzle game with no ads, no tracking, and no in-app purchases
Bloviate — Java library for generating realistic test data for databases
Quantum Beacon — Pipeline for analyzing company domains for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support
BenchBase — Multi-DBMS SQL benchmarking framework via JDBC
Two Bear Tracker — Portfolio tracking application with comprehensive analytics monitoring capabilities
Two Bear Capital API — Three-phase AI extraction API for VC pitch decks with Claude Sonnet 4.5
Two Bear Capital MCP Server — Model Context Protocol server for enterprise data access
Bear Stack — Modern monorepo template with clean architecture patterns
Fivetran Affinity Connector — Custom Fivetran connector for Affinity CRM data sync
Fivetran Carta Connector — Custom Fivetran connector for Carta equity management
Fivetran Standard Metrics Connector — Custom Fivetran connector for portfolio company metrics
Fivetran dbt — dbt project transforming multi-source data into BigQuery
Pinot TestContainers Example — Integration testing framework for Apache Pinot using TestContainers
CockroachDB Remote Client — Docker container for one-time CockroachDB administrative tasks
CockroachDB Single Node — CI/CD optimized Docker image for CockroachDB testing
CockroachDB Dynamic Certs — Dynamic certificate generator for secure CockroachDB deployments
CockroachDB Dynamic HAProxy — Dynamic HAProxy load balancer for CockroachDB clusters
CockroachDB Spring Examples — Spring Boot examples for connecting to CockroachDB