Notes: Tech, food, camping and photo essays from the trail.
Writing
- 59 2026-10-10 The Agent Keeps a Ledger. Someone Else Has to Read It. engineering
- 58 2026-10-04 I Pointed an AI Coach at My Own Agent Work engineering
- 57 2026-09-27 The Agent Wasn't the Innovation. The Standards Were. engineering
- 56 2026-09-20 I Striped Two Drives for Space I Never Used project
- 55 2026-09-14 Taking the Home AI Lab Hybrid, on a Leash project
- 54 2026-09-02 Agent of Change, Agent of Chaos architecture
- 53 2026-08-19 Putting the Lab in a Chat Window: Agent Skills, Flows, and CI/CD for AnythingLLM homelab
- 52 2026-08-11 The Meter Is Not the Bill engineering
Selected work
Testable integration chain on Azure Logic Apps
An integration layer between a PLM platform, an ERP system and internal middleware that had to be testable without live endpoints; the whole chain switches between mock and live with one parameter.
Read the write-upStandards first, then the agent
Two years building a small cloud delivery platform: the speed came from standards written down the year before, and the coding agent mostly used them.
Read the write-upA home AI lab, hybrid on a leash
Joined a fully local AI lab to a small, budget-capped slice of Azure AI Foundry over a private tunnel, without making the cloud a dependency.
Read the write-upOn the bench
- Reading my own agent sessions back with an AI coach, and keeping a change ledger for the agent's work. Read the post
- Storage converted from a RAID 0 stripe to a RAID 1 mirror. Read the post
- A local voice assistant with four voices over one state machine, its reports assembled by code with no model in the loop. Read the post