The spec is the... Hypothesis?In his article, “DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs”, Unmesh Joshi argues that specifications are hypotheses rather than finished blueprints. That perspective contrasts with the many people touting the 41VSep 25 · 4 min readspendolini.blog
Surfacing Invisible Business Rules with SQL Assertions & AII saw Dimitri's post on SQL Assertions today and it piqued my curiosity. Putting more business rules closer to data is almost always a great idea, as you can now call DML from any technology and rest Mar 20 · 5 min readspendolini.blog
Second Time AroundAlmost 20 years ago to the date, I submitted my resignation to Oracle to go start my own company. It was a difficult decision to make, as APEX - or HTML DB as it was called then - was just starting to gain traction. However, I was presented with an o...2PJSep 15, 2025 · 2 min readspendolini.blog
Using SQLcl ProjectsOne of the more difficult parts of the software development lifecycle is deployment. While it seems simple on the surface - just write some scripts and run them - it gets pretty complicated pretty quickly as the level of sophistication of your system...1ISep 1, 2025 · 35 min readspendolini.blog
Using Claude Desktop to Create Dashboards for APEXAnother AI-centric tool that has raised a lot of interest is Claude Desktop. Like Cline, Claude Desktop uses the same reasoning engine at the core - Claude Code - to assist with development tasks. While they share the same engine, there are use cases...Aug 18, 2025 · 6 min readspendolini.blog