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Backyard Birds Is Available, and Learns to Doubt Itself

Backyard Birds Is Available, and Learns to Doubt Itself

The Backyard Birds dashboard is now on GitHub. The follow-up release did not add the notifications I promised. It added clips, reference calls, weather, and a way to tell BirdNET when it is wrong.
June 11, 2026Posted inBirding, Development
Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

A week ago I introduced Ceres, the multi-agent garden assistant Kim and I are building for our raised beds. A week later there is, in fact, code — and a careful re-design that ripped out part of it within three days.
May 19, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation, Homestead
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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