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Nova: Building My Own Echo, One Weird Problem at a Time

Nova: Building My Own Echo, One Weird Problem at a Time

I have wanted an Alexa that doesn't phone home for years. Every commercial voice assistant is a microphone in your house wired to someone else's computer, and the whole point of a homelab is that my stuff runs on my…
July 14, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Home Automation
Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware

Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware

I read too much news, badly. A dozen RSS feeds, three "read it later" apps I never went back to, and the creeping sense that the algorithm-driven version of all this was optimizing for someone else's goals, not mine. So…
June 24, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Updates
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
From Smart Bulbs to Skynet: The 2026 State of my Home Automation

From Smart Bulbs to Skynet: The 2026 State of my Home Automation

When I left Elastic, one of my goals was to dive deep into home automation and finally "level up" my setup. Looking back at where I started when we first moved to Graham, it’s almost comical. Back then, "Home Automation"…
January 1, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Computers, Home Automation, Security
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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