Why Pay for ChatGPT at 35,000 Feet?
Rebuilt a ChatGPT tmux popup with local Ollama models. Benchmarked nine, picked a winner, and added auto-clipboard on /bye.
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I'm Viktor Gamov — I build, break, and explain distributed systems. Developer advocate, author of Kafka in Action, and co-host of DevRel Radio. I've spent two decades turning complex tech into something humans actually enjoy using. Lately, I've been deep in AI-assisted engineering — agentic frameworks, coding tools, and building workflows where humans and AI actually ship together.
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View all →Thirty lines to make Claude Code feel native in tmux and iTerm2
tmux eats Shift+Enter and blocks Claude's notifications. terminal-notifier is dead on Tahoe. Thirty config lines fix all of it.
Flink SQL Enrichment Strategies on Confluent Cloud (and the AI Skill That Writes Them for You)
Runnable Flink SQL for four enrichment strategies on Confluent Cloud. Plus a Tessl skill that writes the queries for you.
Time Travel and Schema Evolution in the Streaming Lakehouse
Iceberg snapshots give you time travel on a streaming pipeline. Add columns while Flink writes. Query from Trino and DuckDB.
Building a Streaming Lakehouse with Open Source: Kafka to Iceberg to Trino to Superset
Open-source streaming lakehouse: Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, Superset in Docker Compose. One make demo runs it all.
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