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Write-ups from production

Architecture, AI, and engineering decisions, written from real projects. Some write-ups include working models.

engineering

Your Git branching strategy is probably too complicated

Simplify your Git release process: separate integration from release scope, promote tested artifacts, and automate the bookkeeping between teams.

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leadership

Building high-performing engineering teams

Build high-performing engineering teams with fewer rules, stronger mentorship, and success measured by user feedback, product outcomes, and business value.

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ai

Your team does not need more AI-generated code

AI compressed implementation, not thinking. Spend some of the time it saves reading the code together and making sure the software reflects reality.

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architecture

This portfolio: how far can AI take a production website?

I built this portfolio to test how far AI could carry a real production system: Next.js on Lambda, an ISR pipeline, and a procedural WebGL sky.

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ai

AI coding rewards preparation: research before you build

My seven-stage AI-assisted development workflow: expand the idea, read the sources, refine it, run deep research, add expertise, then build.

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infrastructure

Enterprise k3s homelab: GitOps, SSO, zero open ports

A five-node k3s homelab applying enterprise platform patterns: three-node HA, Argo CD GitOps, SSO, observability, network policy, and zero open ports.

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ai

GroundNet: an agentic AI safety experiment about trust

A playable agentic AI safety experiment testing what happens when an AI has tools, conflicting goals, and a human who knows how to pressure it.

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ai

Ziggy: building a personalized RAG agent with long-term memory

How I built a personalized RAG agent from scratch using graph memory, routed reasoning, MCP tools, and deliberate forgetting—and why it is working.

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What you’ll find here

These write-ups come from three places. Some explain how I built a project. Some break down a decision from client work. Some are ideas I gave a client that changed how their business runs. Every one comes from a real system.

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