Observations
Notes on Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and the spaces in between.
Essays & Notes
Replicating Boris Cherny's Claude Code Setup on Your Local Machine
Jan 07, 2026A step-by-step guide to replicate Boris Cherny's minimalist setup for Claude Code, emphasizing parallel instances, shared docs, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and verification loops.
AIClaude CodeDeveloper Tools
The Schema of the State: Why Kenya Needs a Temporal Data Lake
Dec 14, 2025GovTech fails when it focuses on apps instead of architecture. A technical argument for Temporal Databases (SQL:2011) and a Federated Data Lakehouse for the public sector.
GovTechSystem ArchitectureSQL
The Kratt Law: Algorithmic Fairness in the World's Digital Republic
Nov 28, 2025An analysis of Estonia's legal framework for AI agents, the mathematical definitions of fairness, and how we audit 'black box' government algorithms.
EstoniaAIEthics
From Soil to SQL: Data Engineering the Kenyan Coffee Supply Chain
Oct 10, 2025An engineering deep-dive into building a distributed IoT telemetry system for coffee cooperatives. Rust on the edge, MQTT over 2G, and the math of yield prediction.
Data EngineeringIoTRust