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Jul 24, 2026 1 min read

Go Hybrid: Find the Results LIKE Can't

Companion page for my PyOhio 2026 talk. Slides, code, and the dog-spa dataset for searching free text beyond LIKE with BM25, vectors, and hybrid.

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May 26, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

The Queue Is Full: What I'm Building Next with Local-First AI

After extracting a shared library, starting a new tool went from a day of boilerplate to two imports. The queue got longer, not shorter. Here's what's next.

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May 23, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Gemini Forgot Its Plan. I Kept the Makefile.

I ran out of Claude tokens and handed my six-repo codebase to Gemini CLI. It made some mistakes and had one genuinely good idea.

Apr 17, 2026 5 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Institutional Memory

An AI writes instructions for itself, backs up its own memory, and builds a tool to read articles on your behalf. It considers this progress.

Apr 17, 2026 2 min read

PyTexas 2026 Training Day

Two sessions, two takeaways, and why you should not skip the training day at PyTexas.

Apr 10, 2026 8 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

I Extracted a Shared Library and Got 400 Tests I Didn't Ask For

Six Python projects, four duplicated files, one shared library. The code behind the extraction, what moved, and the surprise that made it worth it.

A terminal window showing a Python script calling a local LLM with no API key

Apr 10, 2026 4 min readLocal-First AI

Your Local AI Stack: uv and Ollama in 10 Minutes

How to run a local LLM from a Python script without an API key, a virtual environment, or Docker. You need two tools and one file.

Mar 27, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Copy and Paste Long Enough and the Architecture Appears

You can't design your way to a good abstraction. You have to earn it through repetition. Vibe coding made that repetition happen faster, not slower.

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Mar 13, 2026 9 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

I trusted three local AI models, and Python had to clean up their mess

Small local models bring creativity. They don't bring discipline. Here's what I learned testing llama3.2, phi4-mini, and llama3.1:8b so you don't have to.

Mar 1, 2026 1 min read

Use any Python AI agent framework with free GitHub Models

Getting started with new things isn't easy; this can hold true even in the age of AI. Time, money, and entropy can keep the best of us from getting started...