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🧠 What I'm Working On

Spinning up a full Synapse Analytics environment for a new client, including DevOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and third-party data ingestion via ADF.
Troubleshooting a connector issue and enhancing ingestion pipelines for another client using Snowflake and dbt.
Modeling inventory data and building ingestion workflows into SQL Server using SSIS for yet another client.

📚 What I'm Learning

Studying Data Modeling and Dimensional Data Warehousing through works by Ralph Kimball and Christopher Adamson.
Preparing for the DP-203: Microsoft Certified Data Engineer Associate certification.

🛠️ What I'm Playing With

Experimenting with Unraid and planning to migrate my Plex library off my Proxmox server.
Evaluating Pi-hole and other ad-blockers to determine if it's something I want to deploy on my home network.
Looking into Pterodactyl and CasaOS as alternatives for hosting my Minecraft servers.

📖 What I'm Reading & Listening To

Leading with the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski
Provoked by Scott Horton
JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass (on Audible)
Reading mostly on my OnePlus Pad and Boox Palma 2.

🎧 What I'm Enjoying

Podcasts: Part of the Problem, Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, and The Tom Woods Show.
TV: Watching Severance and The Pitt with Abby while slowly making my way through Season 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer on my own.
Music: Deep-diving into Incubus — especially S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Morning View XXIII.

Last updated: April 13, 2025