Browser-based data apps with Pyodide and Preswald
• 03/04/2025 • 5 min read
Run Python directly in the browser with Pyodide. This makes sharing code easier, and opens up new ways to build interactive, web-based data apps.
Category: Engineering
Applying computational graph principles to notebooks
• 12/21/2024 • 4 min read
Notebooks are immensely powerful for exploratory data analysis and prototyping, but they’re often a victim of their own flexibility. Hidden dependencies, unpredictable execution, and inconsistent outputs can turn even the best work into an unmanageable tangle.
A technical intro to Ibis: The portable Python DataFrame library
• 01/25/2025 • 5 min read
How Ibis simplifies analytics across multi-backend systems with a unified Python API. Ibis offers a DataFrame-like API, by translating Python operations into backend-specific queries.
What we learned from building a no-code data stack. And why we changed course.
• 12/10/2024 • 8 min read
One of the most painful and persistent truths in software is that complexity compounds. Every subsequent layer is harder to build and maintain.
Designing SDKs for AI agents vs humans
• 12/28/2024 • 5 min read
The rise of AI agents as SDK consumers will fundamentally change how we should design developer tools. Prompt-based interfaces are becoming an important part of the developer product experience.