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Dev, Travel, Blogging

Over a decade of progressive professional software development experience in conjunction with more than two decades as a hobbyist developer has pushed me to reduce the burden of support and cost of delivery by writing highly-maintainable software of the highest caliber.

This blog is intended to be a personal collection of experiences/rants, journaling to tech related, things and other things that may be appropriate to share in a blog.

Connecting Ollama to OpenCode: A Faster Workflow

How to generate model configurations automatically for custom OpenAPI endpoints.

Posted on June 17, 2026

TL;DR Use my custom script to generate the model configurations for your local LLM. Found here. [Read More]
Tags:
- OpenCode
- LLM
- Ollama
- Llama.cpp
- Local LLM
- Automation
- Self-hosting
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Bash
- Shell Scripting
- Configuration
- JSON
- API
- GitHub
- Open Source
- AI Engineering
- Local AI
- Machine Learning
Vibe Coding

A Technical Book Review

Posted on May 8, 2026

TL;DR- Read “Vibe coding” – Ignore the title, read the book. [Read More]
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What Comes Next

Updates, next steps, and what do I plan on focusing on

Posted on April 14, 2026

Recent massive shifts at Oracle gave me something I didn’t expect. A pause. [Read More]
Tags:
- career
- rif
- reflection
- software-engineering
- staff-engineering
- scala
- functional-programming
- golang
- rust
- ai
- llms
- ai-agents
- self-hosting
- ollama
- llama-cpp
- grapheneos
- open-source
- distributed-systems
- technical-blog
- whats-next
GitHub Actions: The Hidden Billing Trap

Avoid unexpected costs with a simple settings adjustment.

Posted on February 2, 2026

You might be unknowingly paying for GitHub Actions even after your workflows have finished. Let’s set the stage for being me: you’ve forked a project, enabled the GitHub actions, stayed under your limit, and contributed a great change to an open source project. You’re all good right? Karma’s good, it’s... [Read More]
Tags:
- github-actions
- billing
- costs
- troubleshooting
- open-source
- devops
- automation
- github
- retention
- storage
- workflow
- ci-cd
- free-tier
- hidden-costs
- technical-debt
gRPC: Up And Running (2020)

A Book Review

Posted on January 26, 2026

In a previous post, I shared a correction for an early chapter of gRPC: Up and Running. It helped others who were struggling with the initial gRPC server and client setup. [Read More]
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Is This the Future of Software Development? (2026 Predictions)

Navigating the evolving landscape of coding, architecture, and tooling in the next year

Posted on January 20, 2026

It’s the year of flying cars, robots, and all-digital lives. At least one of those things was a big focus at CES ( robotics). In the spirit of looking back in 2025, I thought I’d share a collection of things that might be considered, explored, or should be abandoned in... [Read More]
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Getting Started with gRPC: A Practical Example in Go

An Errata for the book 'gRPC Up and Running'

Posted on January 12, 2026

I’ve recently been diving deeper into gRPC, having used it peripherally in another project. Wanting a solid foundation, I explored several resources, ultimately choosing “gRPC Up and Running” (2020) by Danesh Kuruppu. I initially tried “gRPC Microservices in Go (2023),” but found it leaned heavily into microservice architecture principles before... [Read More]

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