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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
How Claude Updates the Backlog on My Team of One

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…
June 16, 2026Posted inDevelopment, Product Management
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
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
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
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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