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I Stopped Chatting and Started Filing Issues

I Stopped Chatting and Started Filing Issues

Chat is a good scratchpad and a terrible filing cabinet. I moved the actual conversation into Gitea issues, and my projects stopped stalling.
August 17, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Product Thinking
Meet Alfred, the Server That Runs the House

Meet Alfred, the Server That Runs the House

For a while my setup was split across two machines. Home Assistant lived on my Synology NAS, alongside the Mosquitto MQTT broker and ring-mqtt, while Frigate ran on a separate custom rackmount PC. It worked, but two things kept nagging…
July 24, 2026Posted inComputers, Home Automation, Product Thinking
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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