My journey
Stuff Iโve built, for me and at work, from 2021 to now. Newest first.
2026
Pocketbook
My own money app, so I can add any feature I want. AI reads my receipts and bank statements for me.
- Snap or share
- AI reads it
- Quick review
- Statement check
- Card cashback
Threadline
Money-service staff log deposits, withdrawals and exchanges in Telegram. A bot does the maths and keeps the books.
- Receipt dropped
- Staff post it
- Bot maths
- Second check
- Daily reports
Homebase
An old desktop turned home server. It runs my apps, nothing's open to the internet, and it rebuilds from code in under an hour.
- Old desktop
- All in code
- Locked down
- Nightly backups
- Pings me
Airflow and dbt, built from code
From cron jobs to Airflow and dbt, set up with Terraform and Ansible.
- Cron jobs
- Server from code
- Airflow + dbt
- Auto deploy
- Side by side
Getting the team onto git
Git, code reviews and training, so every change is tracked and the team can run with it.
- No history
- Everything in git
- Review first
- Course and videos
- Team takes over
Holistics, then asking in plain words
One shared set of metrics in Holistics, then AI on top to answer questions in plain words.
- Old dashboards
- Holistics
- AI test drive
- AI-ready tables
- Test questions
2025
One home for data on Databricks
From Google Sheets everywhere to pipelines and dashboards on Databricks.
- Data everywhere
- Scheduled ingestion
- Reports rebuilt
- Numbers checked
- Old stuff retired
First pipelines on Fabric
Logic out of hidden stored procedures and into Fabric pipelines with git.
- Hidden procedures
- Into Fabric
- Tracked in git
- Power BI reports
2022
Seatfinder
For a close family member's wedding. Type your name, see your table on the map.
- Scan the QR
- Type a name
- Your table
- Live sheet
- Not listed?
Dagster on our own server
From hand-run scripts and Excel macros to Dagster on our own server.
- Hand-run jobs
- Our own server
- Dagster + GitHub
- Move pipelines over
- One place to look