Alex's Blog

May 2026

• Margin loans - my aha moment
• AWS + SNS + FIREHOSE + SNOWFLAKE, really, really nice for streaming

April 2026

• Apple Podcasts, it's good again

September 2025

• 12-month review of my M3Max Macbook Pro 14

February 2025

• Wait And See Regarding LLMs - If Done Right They Could Be Compelling

January 2025

• Axioms About Berlin - A Running List-ical

November 2024

• Winners And Losers

October 2024

• What I'd Tell My Younger Self
• Coming Around to LLMs - I find them useful

September 2024

• There's no perfect desktop workstation

May 2024

• I bought a ridiculous laptop

March 2024

• AWS things that make you go wtf?
• Apple Should Thank The Asahi Team And How I'm Unsure About What Laptop To Get

February 2024

• A (Poor) Man's Take On Org-Mode, Global Notes

September 2023

• A montage of snippets from Jupiter Broadcasting's CoderRadio Show

July 2023

• How To Check A Make Dependency For Existence Rather Than Newness
• A Florida Grand Jury Charges Donald Trump In The Classified Documents Case
• A sure fire way to get promoted

June 2023

• Compound Interest And Time Is Your Friend

May 2023

• 1 Maxim, 2 Sides
• How to get Podman running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• How To Sort Lines In Place Very Quickly With Vim In VsCode, Vim, or Neovim
• The Ideal Data Engineering Resume And Other Resume Tips And Tricks

April 2023

• My committment to you about accommodating your preferred pronouns
• Building A Blog From Scratch Using Only Linux Tools, Update 1
• Disclose Your Salary, Help Improve Information In The Labor Market
• Nasch Cafe Hamburg - a review - the most amazing vegan cookies
• Building A Blog From Scratch Using Only Linux Tools
• Probably Futile Attempts to Save Earthworms
• Joe's Story - One man's journey out of Iran and to Berlin