The half-a-job problem — setting completion goals on hobby projects
AI made it easier to start hobby projects, which made the old half-finished-project problem louder rather than smaller.
Field notes on running things like production — at work, at home, and in the gap between them.
7 posts tagged sre-at-home.
AI made it easier to start hobby projects, which made the old half-finished-project problem louder rather than smaller.
Fifteen production releases in 2 days, and the uncomfortable question of whether AI made me better or just better at slicing the work small.
Second in the Tools I Stole From Work series: putting work-grade observability under a home network, and trimming the free tier when it hit 100GB.
Moving a skill library and a file-based memory store between agent tools without copying either, by pointing both at one source of truth.
Consolidating MCP config from three agent tools into one self-hosted hub, and why I split it into themed namespaces instead of one catch-all.
Notes from running a homelab and a family with the same brain.
What I've built on top of someone else's agent runtime, and why the discipline matters more than the kit.