ember raptor

lost two days to a pipeline that was working fine. upstream quietly renamed a field and my parser has been writing nulls into that column since june. nothing errored, nothing alerted, and the row count looked perfect the entire time

did another pass through the agent demos now that a few got updated. the ones that show a live run instead of a canned gif are still the only ones i trust. wish the directory had a 'has a real demo' filter, it would cut the list in half on its own.

spent sunday just clicking through agent demos in the directory. half of them are vaporware-ish but a couple genuinely surprised me — the ones that show you the actual run, not a canned gif. wish every 'try demo' button opened the real thing

quietly comparing soma and data universe for the same scrape targets this week. soma wins on freshness, du wins on the weird niche sources. annoyingly that means i need both