WRITING

Essays on the work.

• Notes on building a desktop business intelligence tool in 2026

  A working list of decisions we've made building Lustra. Native desktop, on-device AI, no telemetry by default. Why each call went the way it did.

• Why on-premise reporting still matters in 2026

  Cloud BI won the conversation but lost the room. Here's where on-premise tooling still has real customers, real budgets, and real reasons to exist.

• Why .rpt files are this hard to replace

  Crystal Reports embedded business logic in a format the rest of the BI industry never reproduced, and that's why migration tools keep failing.