Post • rmoff's random ramblings

19 Feb 2026 Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition)
dbt
27 Jan 2026 Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026
AI
27 Jan 2026 Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026
AI
23 Jan 2026 Interacting with Developers on Reddit
DevRel
20 Jan 2026 Interesting links - January 2026
Interesting Links
14 Jan 2026 Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
S3
18 Dec 2025 A love letter to Raycast ❤️
Raycast
16 Dec 2025 Interesting links - December 2025
Interesting Links
01 Dec 2025 Using Graph Analysis with Neo4j to Spot Astroturfing on Reddit
Property Graph
26 Nov 2025 Interesting links - November 2025
Interesting Links
25 Nov 2025 (AI) Smells on Medium
Blogging
20 Nov 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 6—I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong
Stumbling into AI
06 Nov 2025 How we built the demo for the Current NOLA Day 2 keynote using Flink and AI
Stumbling into AI
05 Nov 2025 Tech Radar (Nov 2025) - data blips
TechRadar
31 Oct 2025 Interesting links - October 2025
Interesting Links
06 Oct 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 5—Agents
AI
30 Sep 2025 Interesting links - September 2025
Interesting Links
16 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 4—Terminology Tidy-up (and a little rant)
AI
12 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 3—RAG
AI
08 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 2—Models
AI
04 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 1—MCP
AI
21 Aug 2025 Interesting links - August 2025
Interesting Links
18 Aug 2025 Kafka to Iceberg - Exploring the Options
Apache Iceberg
22 Jul 2025 Connecting Apache Flink SQL to Confluent Cloud Kafka broker
Apache Flink
18 Jul 2025 Interesting links - July 2025
Interesting Links
14 Jul 2025 Keeping your Data Lakehouse in Order: Table Maintenance in Apache Iceberg
Apache Iceberg
04 Jul 2025 Writing to Apache Iceberg on S3 using Kafka Connect with Glue catalog
Apache Iceberg
27 Jun 2025 Interesting links - June 2025
Interesting Links
24 Jun 2025 Writing to Apache Iceberg on S3 using Flink SQL with Glue catalog
Flink SQL
02 Jun 2025 Digging into Ducklake
DuckDB
23 May 2025 Interesting links - May 2025
Interesting Links
20 May 2025 Exploring Joins and Changelogs in Flink SQL
Flink SQL
02 May 2025 🏃🚶 The unofficial Current London 2025 Run/Walk 🏃🚶
Kafka Summit
25 Apr 2025 It’s Time We Talked About Time: Exploring Watermarks (And More) In Flink SQL
Apache Flink
22 Apr 2025 Interesting links - April 2025
Interesting Links
25 Mar 2025 Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink - Exploring the API
Apache Flink
24 Mar 2025 Interesting links - March 2025
Interesting Links
21 Mar 2025 How to create Carousel posts in LinkedIn…without the bullshit
LinkedIn
20 Mar 2025 Building a data pipeline with DuckDB
DuckDB
19 Mar 2025 Exporting Notebooks from DuckDB UI
DuckDB
14 Mar 2025 Kicking the tyres on the new DuckDB UI
DuckDB
13 Mar 2025 Creating an HTTP Source connector on Confluent Cloud from the CLI
Confluent Cloud
13 Mar 2025 Why is kcat showing the wrong topics?
kcat (kafkacat)
11 Mar 2025 Write more blog articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor)
Blogging
10 Mar 2025 Data Wrangling with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
06 Mar 2025 Joining two streams of data with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
03 Mar 2025 How to explode nested arrays with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
28 Feb 2025 Exploring UK Environment Agency data in DuckDB and Rill
DuckDB
27 Feb 2025 DuckDB tricks - renaming fields in a SELECT * across tables
DuckDB
03 Feb 2025 Interesting links - February 2025
Interesting links