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Ceres Update: From Empty Scaffold to a Garden That Talks Back

Ceres Update: From Empty Scaffold to a Garden That Talks Back

Seventy-four commits across one weekend took Ceres, the multi-agent assistant for Kim's garden, from a bare scaffold to a working assistant that transcribes voice notes, diagnoses plant photos, answers questions, plans the watering, and runs a scheduled daily briefing from an orchestrated roster of specialist agents.
June 15, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Home Automation, Homestead
Backyard Birds Is Available, and Learns to Doubt Itself

Backyard Birds Is Available, and Learns to Doubt Itself

The Backyard Birds dashboard is now on GitHub. The follow-up release did not add the notifications I promised. It added clips, reference calls, weather, and a way to tell BirdNET when it is wrong.
June 11, 2026Posted inBirding, Development
How a PM Ships Software Without an Engineering Team

How a PM Ships Software Without an Engineering Team

For most of my career, the gap between an idea and a working product was an engineering team. I'm a product manager. I think in milestones, user stories, and outcomes, not in pull requests. I've always coded and I can…
May 29, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Product Management, Productivity
Backyard Birds: Building My Own Dashboard on Top of Local Bird Data

Backyard Birds: Building My Own Dashboard on Top of Local Bird Data

A few weeks back I wrote about replacing my Haikubox with a four-camera local pipeline feeding BirdNET into TimescaleDB. The data was beautiful. The dashboards were not. Grafana is great for whether the heat pump cycled overnight or how warm…
May 24, 2026Posted inBirding, Development
Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

A week ago I introduced Ceres, the multi-agent garden assistant Kim and I are building for our raised beds. A week later there is, in fact, code — and a careful re-design that ripped out part of it within three days.
May 19, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation, Homestead
Managing a Homelab AI Project with Claude Code, Gitea, and the Gitea MCP Server

Managing a Homelab AI Project with Claude Code, Gitea, and the Gitea MCP Server

I am not a software engineer. I think in milestones, user stories, and outcomes. Kim wants a smart garden assistant that tells her when to water and when the blight risk is high. I want to build it. Solo homelab…
May 13, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Home Automation, Homestead, Product Management
Building Ceres, a Multi-Agent Garden Assistant

Building Ceres, a Multi-Agent Garden Assistant

We are growing a lot of vegetables this year. Carrots, cauliflower, russet potatoes, Roma tomatoes, and more are all going into fourteen raised beds in our garden. We have done our research, but there are a lot of variables in…
May 12, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation, Homestead
I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

A few weeks ago I stopped using Reddit. Not because the content was bad. There's genuinely useful stuff there, but because I had no control over it. I was just overwhelmed with irrelevant content, negative content and constant suggestion of…
May 7, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Productivity
Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

For years, InfluxDB has been the data backbone of my Home Assistant setup. With the native Home Assistant integration and Grafana, I had my dashboards dialed in. While FluxQL was a bit of a learning curve, I was able to…
April 24, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation
Listening to the Birds with AI – My Local HaikuBox

Listening to the Birds with AI – My Local HaikuBox

A few year ago, I saw a very cool product. Haikubox, is a small device that listens to birds at home, identifies them and gives you a nice web interface to see what's going on. Over time, I realized one…
April 23, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Python

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PM by trade. Builder by nature.

I spent the last few years building AI systems end to end: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Most of it is running at the house. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made. Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic, now GitLab.

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