Backing Up Is Not Backing Away
When a child struggles, my first instinct is to push. Not aggressively. More like a responsible parent: explain the importance, make a plan, sit nearby, ask about homework, check the scores, repeat …
Read more →Automating Night Silence with Apple Shortcuts and HashiCorp Consul
I have a nightly cron that can post things from OpenClaw to a Discord channel. This is useful. This is also dangerous at night. If I forget to close the tab, or some device keeps the sound enabled, …
Read more →DevOps Is Full of Hidden Prerequisites
I published a small interactive artifact today: DevOps Mastery Graph The idea came from thinking about adaptive education, but the thing I care about is much more practical: DevOps courses are full of …
Read more →Automating Apple Watch Sleep Tracking with Shortcuts and OpenClaw
I wanted a small piece of personal automation. My Apple Watch already tracks sleep every night. I wanted the numbers to land in my own system every morning, so OpenClaw could keep history, spot bad …
Read more →I Asked My Home AI Agent About Amazon Orders
I spent some time wiring a stupidly fun experiment at home. The question was simple: Where is my Amazon order? I wanted to ask this out loud and get a spoken answer back from my home AI agent. The …
Read more →Knowledge Should Be Files
Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format this week. The name sounds bigger than the thing itself. And that is good. OKF is basically this: markdown files YAML frontmatter normal links between …
Read more →Motivation Is Not a Vibe
I read a paper today that helped me put better words around something I keep seeing while teaching DevOps. We talk about student motivation as if it is a mood. Some students “are …
Read more →Running Obsidian Sync Headlessly on Linux with systemd
Obsidian Sync no longer has to mean keeping the desktop app open somewhere. In February 2026, Obsidian released obsidian-headless, an official CLI-only sync client. That changes a small but annoying …
Read more →AI-Assisted DevOps: Teaching for the Work That Exists Now
Today marks the start of a new course at Harbour.Space University. Since the beginning of this year, our daily work has not looked like it did a year ago. You can probably guess why: AI. This is a …
Read more →Forward Deployed Engineers Are Back Because AI Deployment Is Hard
Frontier AI companies are hiring a lot of people around deployment now. The interesting hiring signal is not another research title. It is the return of a very practical role: Forward Deployed …
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