Bearing Out

Writing · 59 entries


  1. 59 2026-10-10 The Agent Keeps a Ledger. Someone Else Has to Read It. engineering
  2. 58 2026-10-04 I Pointed an AI Coach at My Own Agent Work engineering
  3. 57 2026-09-27 The Agent Wasn't the Innovation. The Standards Were. engineering
  4. 56 2026-09-20 I Striped Two Drives for Space I Never Used project
  5. 55 2026-09-14 Taking the Home AI Lab Hybrid, on a Leash project
  6. 54 2026-09-02 Agent of Change, Agent of Chaos architecture
  7. 53 2026-08-19 Putting the Lab in a Chat Window: Agent Skills, Flows, and CI/CD for AnythingLLM homelab
  8. 52 2026-08-11 The Meter Is Not the Bill engineering
  9. 51 2026-08-11 Helen Gets a Command Surface homelab
  10. 50 2026-08-05 Seven in the Morning: What Helen Says, and Why No Model Writes It homelab
  11. 49 2026-08-03 A Refusal a Model Can't Be Talked Out Of homelab
  12. 48 2026-08-01 How Helen Came to Be: Four Voices and a State Machine homelab
  13. 47 2026-07-30 The Coach That Doesn't Use a Model homelab
  14. 46 2026-07-28 Looking Outward: A Small Data Lake for Public Sources homelab
  15. 45 2026-07-26 Two Stages and a Refusal: Routing Inside the Memory homelab
  16. 44 2026-07-24 The Index That Was Quietly Empty homelab
  17. 43 2026-07-22 Teaching the Lab to Know Me: Journals Into Structured Data homelab
  18. 42 2026-07-20 Mostly Arithmetic: Classifying Intent Without Training Anything homelab
  19. 41 2026-07-19 Higher Brain Monitor: A Physical UX for the Home AI Lab homelab
  20. 40 2026-07-18 Where Does This Sentence Go? The Gateway Problem homelab
  21. 39 2026-07-16 A Dropped Log Is Worse Than an Ugly One homelab
  22. 38 2026-07-15 From RAG to a Knowledge Factory: An LLM-Owned Wiki That Compounds homelab
  23. 37 2026-07-14 From Wake Word to Soundbar: The Whole Voice Pipeline homelab
  24. 36 2026-07-12 An Operator Console, Not a Dashboard homelab
  25. 35 2026-07-11 A Console Cyberdeck for Azure and Agentic Development homelab
  26. 34 2026-07-10 Body Language: Giving the Lab a Face on the Wall homelab
  27. 33 2026-07-08 Two Platforms On Purpose: systemd, k3s, and Refusing to Migrate homelab
  28. 32 2026-07-06 Zero Redundancy: Backing Up a Striped Array I Chose On Purpose homelab
  29. 31 2026-07-04 Is Any of This Even Running? Building the Lab's Single Pane of Glass homelab
  30. 30 2026-07-02 1.7 Tokens Per Second: How the Lab Got Its GPUs homelab
  31. 29 2026-06-30 Load-Bearing Docs: How a Homelab Learns to Stop Lying to Itself homelab
  32. 28 2026-06-15 Eating my own dogfood: ADR for the UI plane of my AI Lab homelab
  33. 27 2026-05-26 CLI vs Open WebUI: Why Context Actually Matters When Running Local LLMs homelab
  34. 26 2026-03-28 Homelab Seismic AI with Slack Alerts dotnet
  35. 25 2026-03-14 Facades, Envelopes, and Orchestrators: Building a Testable Integration Chain on Azure Logic Apps engineering
  36. 24 2026-03-08 Earthquake Data, .NET, and Local LLM Reasoning dotnet
  37. 23 2026-02-27 Building Resilient API Integrations: A Practical Guide api
  38. 22 2025-11-30 Navigating Loss and Friendship: Nick's Story friendship
  39. 21 2025-09-12 Update (2025-09-12): Post-Migration Deep Dive & Lessons Learned howto
  40. 20 2025-02-03 A grateful reflection to end the week: A TripTik howto
  41. 19 2025-02-03 New year, new laptop, new solutions to build! howto
  42. 18 2024-12-14 Collaborative Planning and Scoping, a Roadmap collaboration
  43. 17 2024-11-18 Metadata-Driven Application Architecture & PowerApps project
  44. 16 2024-11-02 Moondock Project Architecture project
  45. 15 2024-09-29 Changing Internet Service- with a bit of data to back it up howto
  46. 14 2024-09-05 Moving on From Insight & Doing a 5+ Year Self Retro career
  47. 13 2024-08-10 Personal: Take Time to Recharge personal
  48. 12 2024-08-07 Personal: One Important Little Loss personal
  49. 11 2024-08-05 Power Apps: So, About That 'Expand' Function with Dataverse Offline First Mode... powerapps
  50. 10 2024-07-24 Hiking: Scioto Trail State Park hiking
  51. 9 2024-07-24 Power Apps Test Studio: Some Hard Observations powerapps
  52. 8 2024-07-18 Custom Forms: Where Low Code Meets Engineering Practices in Canvas Applications powerapps
  53. 7 2024-07-08 30/60/90 Day Framework selfcare
  54. 6 2024-07-04 A moment of reflection before turning, yet again, forward selfcare
  55. 5 2024-07-03 Workout Routine selfcare
  56. 4 2024-06-30 Creating a Blog Using Jekyll on an Ubuntu Machine howto
  57. 3 2024-06-30 How to build a custom form in a Canvas App using prinicpals from Atomic Design howto
  58. 2 2019-08-28 Dark Beer Chili food
  59. 1 2014-06-28 “He’s dead Jim;” finding mom on board the Starship Enterprise. life