Jamal Hansen

Data scientist who teaches SQL to Python devs. Believer in learning-by-teaching. Dad of five.

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Logic or Generation? The question that changes how you write LLM code

Apr 13, 2026

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3 min read

Logic or Generation? The question that changes how you write LLM code

Plus: a 10-minute local AI stack and what I'm learning about prompts

Jamal Hansen

Agentic Notes

Apr 6, 2026

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7 min read

Sometimes the answer is right there

The story of how my assumptions kept me from finding 80GB of files that were right where they belonged

Jamal Hansen

local-ai

Mar 30, 2026

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5 min read

Busy in the Best Way

BartBot now reads to me on walks, subqueries are SQL's helper functions, and DRY is getting flexible

Jamal Hansen

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Mar 23, 2026

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4 min read

Introducing the Content Curator

BartBot made his first appearance on my blog this week, what do you think?

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Create a Twitter post with a Macedonian accent

Mar 16, 2026

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7 min read

Create a Twitter post with a Macedonian accent

How AI sometimes misses the point completely

Jamal Hansen

Mar 9, 2026

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5 min read

We are all going through changes

What I learned letting AI write my code (and why the lizards are back)

Jamal Hansen

Mar 2, 2026

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3 min read

I'm trying something new

What I've been up to, what I'm learning, and where this newsletter is headed

Jamal Hansen

Feb 23, 2026

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1 min read

SQL's sorting trick that beats Python

Multi-column sorting with mixed directions, in one line

Jamal Hansen

Feb 16, 2026

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1 min read

Optimize the columns your query returns

SELECT * is like asking for everything in the fridge when you just want milk

Jamal Hansen

Feb 9, 2026

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1 min read

FROM: Where Your Data Lives

We write SELECT first, but FROM executes first

Jamal Hansen

Feb 8, 2026

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1 min read

SQL Thinks in Sets, Not Loops

The mental shift that makes SQL click

Jamal Hansen

Jamal Hansen

Logic or Generation? The question that changes how you write LLM code

Sometimes the answer is right there

Busy in the Best Way

Introducing the Content Curator

Create a Twitter post with a Macedonian accent

We are all going through changes

I'm trying something new

SQL's sorting trick that beats Python

Optimize the columns your query returns

FROM: Where Your Data Lives

SQL Thinks in Sets, Not Loops

Select * FROM Jamal