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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
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
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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