For Sooty

This one isn’t about data pipelines. There’s no framework, no architecture diagram, no code snippet at the end. Yesterday I said goodbye to my best friend. Sooty was a miniature schnauzer — nine kilograms of stubbornness, loyalty, and heart. Born October 2011. Gone February 2026. Fourteen years that changed the shape of everything. I don’t have the right words for this. I’m not sure anyone does. But I tried to write something that comes close, and I wanted to share it here — because this is my corner of the internet, and she deserves a place in it.