AleWrites
Articles about books and game development
New Data Engineering Project
July 23, 2026
I'm thinking of using the steam api to build a data engineering project for my portfolio. It would require me to use dbt, airflow, and PostgreSQL to find insights into what people are buying, how they're reviewing and what they're wishlisting. I thought it might combine my love of game development w…
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Creating a Cat-ching sun demo
July 21, 2026
I've been using Claude code to teach me how to rebuild the pygame about cats in Godot. It's been really useful to slow down and explore architecture decisions and best practices. It took some getting used, and I had to, at least in the beginning, nudge the AI to check current documentation instead o…
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Relaunching the blog
July 20, 2026
I'm relaunching this blog after a deep hiatus. I realized that I couldn't keep up, writing tons of short stories, even in the genre I prefer. This is a better, free version with articles about game development, analytics and books.…
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