Summary: Sometimes it takes a wall of blinking lights to realize your machines have been trying to talk to you all along. The Higher Brain Monitor is a small, human first, experiment in ambient ph...

Summary: I've been working through a better way to manage personal and project knowledge in the homelab, with an eye on enterprise use of AI that is precise, cost effective and applicable to automa...

Every so often, the thing you build ends up changing how you work. This may also echo the paradigm of "the obstacle becomes the way," maybe, I don't know that answer yet, still this was useful to m...

Summary: In my home AI lab, I’m adding AnythingLLM not because I needed another chatbot, but because I wanted to dogfood the same architecture patterns I evaluate professionally: context boundaries...

Summary: So I'm doing the AI path, like everyone else, and after spending months building out my home lab with dedicated hardware, Ollama and local LLMs, I kept noticing something: the same Qwen mo...

Every so often, a learning journey turns into something a little more project-shaped than you originally planned. "Resonance Lab," my home brew project moniker for the AI lab I built, started that ...

I've been building an integration layer between a PLM platform, an ERP system, and internal middleware using Azure Logic Apps Standard. The system needed to be testable without live endpoints, trac...

I have been using the USGS earthquake web services on and off for a long time now because they are one of those public data sources which are both genuinely useful and universally useful. Maybe it'...

I'm doing an API integration project now with some folks who are struggling with the basics, so I put this example together to show how to build a production-grade API client with error handling, r...

[Originally published in 2017 after my close friend Nick’s stroke, this post reflects on 37 years of friendship, loss, and recovery. Now, in 2024, I share it as a memorial for Nick, whose journey s...