rahim@stdin ~ % now
last updated 2026-09-03 — 0 days ago
 
building
this site — a terminal you can query instead of a portfolio you scroll; applied AI on top of the data platform work, rather than beside it
reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications — the stream processing chapters, again; the Iceberg and DuckDB docs, mostly to argue with myself about table formats
learning
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, in progress
 

Four years of moving data around have left me convinced the hard part of applied AI is not the model. It is the same problem it has always been: getting the right data to the right place, on time, in a shape someone can trust.

 
the build fails at 90 days. staleness here is a bug, not a vibe.