Engineering stories about SDK architecture, AI developer tools, infrastructure, home automation and the systems I run.
Journal
A zero-dependency Herdr plugin that keeps caffeinate alive while any agent pane is working — and deliberately lets the Mac sleep when an agent is blocked.
AI Developer Tools · AI, Agents, Developer Tools
How traffic reaches a small cluster from the internet and from the LAN, and why a single virtual IP is not the same as high availability.
Kubernetes Home Lab · Kubernetes, Ingress, Traefik, kube-vip, Networking
Moving a three-node control plane off Wi-Fi to eliminate etcd peer timeouts and restore a stable quorum.
Kubernetes Home Lab · Kubernetes, K3s, etcd, High Availability, Networking
How a customer integration template, wallet abstraction, explicit decision rules and evals turned repeated implementation work into an agent-operable workflow.
SDK Architecture · SDK, Architecture, AI, Developer Tools, Evals
Project
A small self-hosted Kubernetes cluster built to run and learn from real workloads.
Selected work
Bringing an AI agent into an existing platform — MCP servers, reusable skills and evaluations as developer tooling.
Home automation — Zigbee, ESPHome and the slow path to a smart home that stays up.
A framework-agnostic TypeScript SDK platform — client core, multi-chain wallet connectivity, backend-driven configuration and public API evolution.
Index
Technologies and concepts across Projects and Journal.
Open Source
Small tools and integrations built out of real engineering work.