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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
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
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
How I Would Build the Tableau Connector SDK Today

How I Would Build the Tableau Connector SDK Today

I spent six years at Tableau turning data connectivity from a centralized engineering bottleneck into a partner ecosystem. We went from about 40 connectors, all built by Tableau engineers, to 120+ in the catalog with partners building their own. The…
April 16, 2026Posted inDevelopment, Product Management
The Painless Problem: Why Kibana Runtime Fields Needed an AI Skill, Not Better Docs

The Painless Problem: Why Kibana Runtime Fields Needed an AI Skill, Not Better Docs

When I owned the Runtime Fields authoring experience in Kibana, we shipped a feature that was elegant in concept and brutal in practice. The concept: define fields at query time against an existing data view, no reindex required, perfect for…
February 3, 2026Posted inDevelopment, Product Management

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PM by trade. Builder by nature.

 

Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic. I’m on sabbatical, using the time to build AI systems end to end instead of reading about them: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made.

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