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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
gstack vs Loki Mode: 105,000 Stars Does Not Settle the Argument
One project has 105,637 stars. The other has 956. A 110x star gap does not reflect a 110x quality gap. A head-to-head between gstack and Loki Mode, with tests run in both repos.
Open Source AI in 2026: Models, Tools, and Protocols
The open source AI ecosystem is no longer chasing proprietary models; it is building the infrastructure layer that proprietary systems depend on
Loki Mode Enterprise Features: What Global Adoption Taught Me
Loki Mode has been globally adopted and the enterprise feature requests reveal what organizations actually need from autonomous AI agent systems
MediCompanion: Building AI for Healthcare That Earns Trust
MediCompanion is an open source AI health companion designed for patient education and chronic condition management, with safety as the foundational constraint
K9s GUI: Making Kubernetes Accessible Beyond the Terminal
Building a graphical interface for Kubernetes that complements K9s and kubectl, designed for teams where not everyone lives in the terminal
Next Portal: Building an Internal Developer Platform That Developers Actually Use
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
FireLater: A ServiceNow Alternative That Is 99% Cheaper
Why I built FireLater, an open source incident and change management platform, and how it replaces six-figure enterprise licenses with a free tool
From Zero to Global Adoption: Open Source Virality
How an enterprise MCP server collection went from a personal project to globally adopted open source infrastructure
Loki Mode is Born: Building a Multi-Agent Autonomous System
Introducing Loki Mode — a multi-agent autonomous system for Claude Code with 41 agent types across 8 swarms