Portfolio-first pivot. Queued three writeups about the system I'm actually building. DeFi digest CLI shipped, lakehouse migration spec locked.

Worked on

• Lakehouse migration spec — 14 sections, 0 TODOs, 7 named assumptions
• DeFi digest CLI — terminal + telegram format over /v1/digest
• DefiLlama ingest cutover to gl-defi API (with Trino fallback)

Shipped

• 11 lakehouse spec issues captured from review
• DeFi digest CLI — DEX volume / stablecoin supply / 30d movers / depeg sections

Got stuck

• Adjacency-fix on Azure caveat carried over from a different role — corrected mid-session

Tomorrow

• Scaffold an interview-prep procedure to codify research

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Notes

Pivoted to portfolio-now over premature applications. The case for waiting on any vetted-marketplace: the acceptance moat is 2-3 visible shipped projects in the lane the marketplace screens for, plus a real GitHub presence with non-tutorial code. Generic "I'm good at React" applications die. So pushed three writeups to the content backlog — an agent stack on local hardware (declarative LLM programming + Ollama + Neo4j), an observability stack, and the blog blueprint — to be that portfolio depth before applying.