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 proprietary report formats are this hard to replace

  Older enterprise reporting tools embedded business logic in formats the rest of the BI industry never reproduced. That's why migration tools keep failing.