Beginning a PgScope Blog

This Blog

Posts here will likely be terse and frequent.

This is a blog about PgScope and it's progress from nothing to something interesting.

PgScope

PgScope is a tool that I've wanted and have been building and making for a bit.

It's inspired by Metabase, which I love, and by the Posgresql Database, which I also love, and, surprisingly, by Django, which I also love.

Right now it's mostly a tool to rapidly search through the schema of a Postgres database and use your search results to write queries.

I want to make it an indispensable tool for any company using a Postgres database as a core piece of their company.

But yeah, right now it's just a personal project.

My situation

I work at LoanPass full time, and love my colleagues and leadership there. I get to work with Postgres and Rust there everyday solving challenging problems as we make the most flexible, most powerful, and fastest Loan Pricing Engine on the market.  

I also love that LoanPass have expressed full acceptance and even encouragement as I seek to make PgScope something interesting over time.

I have four children at home in elementary school, middle school, high school and college. And I have three other children at college away or on a mission and a fourth who just graduated in Linguistics and is about to go to Taiwan to teach English.

I'm a seasoned developer and data guy. I earned a PhD in optics, focusing dispersion and quantum optics. After a postdoc and some time as a research scientist I transferred out of the life of a laser physicist about 10 years ago and have helped startups get off the ground by coding from home since then.

PgScope is now my effort to create something of my own. I hope to do a little bit of work on it each week, each day, Monday through Saturday, which occasional breaks for travel.

This is a marathon, not a sprint, so I'll try to keep it fun and get plenty of rest along the way.

Here goes!