Steve Jobs' 1991 Chalk Talk: A Masterclass in Strategic Communication
I recently watched a legendary internal “chalk talk” by Steve Jobs at NeXT Computer (around 1991). He stands in front of a whiteboard to explain a massive strategic pivot to his sales and …
Read more →China's 5-Point Plan: Control the Chokepoints, Control the World
I watched a Russian-language breakdown of China’s economic strategy that made me rethink how I look at infrastructure — not just the software kind. The thesis is simple: China doesn’t need …
Read more →OpenClaw Observability with the Grafana Stack
I’ve been running OpenClaw as my AI assistant for a couple months now. It handles Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, cron jobs, sub-agents — a lot of moving parts. When something is slow or a message …
Read more →NemoClaw: NVIDIA's Bet on Making AI Agents Enterprise-Ready
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA announced NemoClaw — an enterprise wrapper around OpenClaw that adds the security and governance layer that’s been missing from autonomous AI agents. Jensen Huang called …
Read more →How I Taught an AI to Do My Bookkeeping
Living in Germany with financial ties to Ukraine means three bank accounts, two countries, two currencies, and a lot of monthly bookkeeping nobody wants to do. For years I’ve tracked every …
Read more →Chrome Now Speaks MCP Natively — Here's What That Means
Six months ago, debugging a website with an AI coding assistant meant launching a separate browser instance, connecting it through a Node.js bridge, and hoping everything held together. As of Chrome …
Read more →I Built an OpenTelemetry Extension for Pi Coding Agent
A few days ago I wrote about setting up observability for Claude Code with the Grafana stack. Claude Code ships with OTEL support baked in — set some env vars, data flows. Easy. Pi is a different …
Read more →Your Second Brain Has a New Reader
Yesterday I gave a talk at the DevOps Meetup in Freiburg, hosted at JobRad. The title: Your Second Brain Has a New Reader. The core thesis is simple: most of us have spent years building personal …
Read more →What I Learned at AWS Frugality Training
Yesterday I attended an AWS GameDay on Frugality, organized by Automate-it. If you haven’t done a GameDay before — it’s AWS’s hands-on competitive format where teams get a real AWS …
Read more →How I Set Up Observability for Claude Code with the Grafana Stack
AI coding assistants are becoming standard engineering tools. But here’s a question most teams aren’t asking yet: how much are they actually costing us, and are they making us faster? I …
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