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.
My AI-Native PM Operating System: Idea to Shipped, Solo
The gap between an idea and a working product used to be an engineering team. Here's the whole loop I run now: spec first, backlog in Gitea, Claude Code doing the building, and me making the calls that actually matter. Including the two features I shipped and then threw out.
How Claude Updates the Backlog on My Team of One
Last month I wrote about how a PM ships software without an engineering team. The short version: Claude Code closed the gap between an idea and a running product, so I could spend my time on the parts of the…
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…
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…
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…