Nico Ritschel
@nicoritschel.com
Building @sidequery.dev
Director of Engineering atm.com
nicoritschel.com
Director of Engineering atm.com
nicoritschel.com
Track your Claude Code usage with DuckDB (it's much faster than ccusage)
Claude Code Usage via DuckDB
Claude Code Usage via DuckDB. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Track your Claude Code usage with DuckDB (it's much faster than ccusage)
I find Claude Code pretty effective to help with data analysis. But it's not easy for everyone to setup and manage & has no collaborative capabilities.
So I built it into a Slack app.
So I built it into a Slack app.
AI Agents for Data in Slack, ChatGPT & Claude
Connect Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, Google Sheets and more.
sidequery.ai
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I find Claude Code pretty effective to help with data analysis. But it's not easy for everyone to setup and manage & has no collaborative capabilities.
So I built it into a Slack app.
So I built it into a Slack app.
Been busy lately; I built a DuckDB extension that embeds Claude Code inside DuckDB
No SQL, No Problem — Sidequery Blog
Agents used to be an enterprise feature. Even today, it's not uncommon for some tools to charge an extra monthly fee for AI add ons. But savvy users expect natural language interfaces as a default, no...
sidequery.dev
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Been busy lately; I built a DuckDB extension that embeds Claude Code inside DuckDB
Crazy this account / PDS still runs on a free tier Oracle Cloud server
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Crazy this account / PDS still runs on a free tier Oracle Cloud server
I've been working on a universal semantic layer.
It's still a bit early but I'm really excited about its future. Will also be tightly woven into @sidequery.dev
Compatible with definitions from Cube, MetricFlow (dbt), LookML (Looker), Hex, Rill, Superset, Omni & there's a native definition format.
It's still a bit early but I'm really excited about its future. Will also be tightly woven into @sidequery.dev
Compatible with definitions from Cube, MetricFlow (dbt), LookML (Looker), Hex, Rill, Superset, Omni & there's a native definition format.
Sidemantic
sidemantic.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I've been working on a universal semantic layer.
It's still a bit early but I'm really excited about its future. Will also be tightly woven into @sidequery.dev
Compatible with definitions from Cube, MetricFlow (dbt), LookML (Looker), Hex, Rill, Superset, Omni & there's a native definition format.
It's still a bit early but I'm really excited about its future. Will also be tightly woven into @sidequery.dev
Compatible with definitions from Cube, MetricFlow (dbt), LookML (Looker), Hex, Rill, Superset, Omni & there's a native definition format.
The big 3 agent CLIs all have support in @sidequery.dev
September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The big 3 agent CLIs all have support in @sidequery.dev
Anyone on here into risk analytics / underwriting for alternative lending?
DM or email me nico@atm.com
DM or email me nico@atm.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Anyone on here into risk analytics / underwriting for alternative lending?
DM or email me nico@atm.com
DM or email me nico@atm.com
I wrote a blog post on the @sidequery.dev blog, check it out
Sidequery Blog — Product updates, SQL notebooks, DuckDB
Updates from Sidequery: SQL analytics notebooks, DuckDB, data tooling, and agent workflows.
sidequery.dev
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I wrote a blog post on the @sidequery.dev blog, check it out
V pleased with my new hiddenbar setup. No more menubar junk
July 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
V pleased with my new hiddenbar setup. No more menubar junk
Er, how was your weekend?
June 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Er, how was your weekend?
I got a commercial where a lady just kept repeating “Churu” and my cats were disappointed to say the least
June 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I got a commercial where a lady just kept repeating “Churu” and my cats were disappointed to say the least
Why is it that every time I take a day off I get 5x the new Slack conversations compared to a normal day?
June 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Why is it that every time I take a day off I get 5x the new Slack conversations compared to a normal day?
One of my cats is named Jerry. Every time I say his name, my phone activates Siri 🙄
June 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
One of my cats is named Jerry. Every time I say his name, my phone activates Siri 🙄
On Saturday, I built a DuckDB extension that embeds a v8 javascript runtime and exposes a few table functions. You can pass arbitrary js code & natural language prompts for which js code is generated and ran.
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
On Saturday, I built a DuckDB extension that embeds a v8 javascript runtime and exposes a few table functions. You can pass arbitrary js code & natural language prompts for which js code is generated and ran.
orthogonal
What is the most overused word in your industry?
Let it out.
Let it out.
June 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
orthogonal
As I sit here while the clock crosses 6am, I realize I am now running on permanent cat time
June 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
As I sit here while the clock crosses 6am, I realize I am now running on permanent cat time
Love how my cats know to wait until I'm on a call to jump on the counter / dining table...
June 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Love how my cats know to wait until I'm on a call to jump on the counter / dining table...
Have been busy lately; chipping away at this new SQL notebook UI for @sidequery.dev
Here's CTE ejection for times when you need a little more intermediary inspectability!
Here's CTE ejection for times when you need a little more intermediary inspectability!
June 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Have been busy lately; chipping away at this new SQL notebook UI for @sidequery.dev
Here's CTE ejection for times when you need a little more intermediary inspectability!
Here's CTE ejection for times when you need a little more intermediary inspectability!
In a new boba shop and there’s only kiosk ordering
June 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In a new boba shop and there’s only kiosk ordering
Checks notes registry.terraform.io/providers/co...
June 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Checks notes registry.terraform.io/providers/co...
Claude Code isn't perfect by any means, but it's magical connecting to a playwright mcp server and letting the LLM reproduce frontend bugs, fix them, then check work
May 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Claude Code isn't perfect by any means, but it's magical connecting to a playwright mcp server and letting the LLM reproduce frontend bugs, fix them, then check work
Why waste time read lot word when few word do trick
if Bluesky isn't retaining the zillions of users who migrated over from Twitter when it was breaking my guess is the main reason is that no text-based microblogging site is doing great right now, the real competition, now and forever, is TikTok / Insta
May 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Why waste time read lot word when few word do trick