Building a local RAG pipeline over my Obsidian vault, and why keyword search almost didn't work In my last post I described my "home brain": an Obsidian vault that my automations keep filled with facts about my house, my servers and my projects. I ended with a promise. Because the vault is plain Markdown, I...
How a folder of plain text files became the place where my home, my servers, my automations and my AI tools all meet Most mornings, the first thing I check isn't a dashboard. It's a note. A note says whether my home server is healthy, whether the local AI models are running, and whether any...
Modernize an App on Your Lunch Break?! Note from Adam: this article was originally written in 2025 There's been a lot of conversation about using AI in software development. We all know AI isn't (yet) a total, or even reliable, solution for many problems. But used in the right context, it's a genuine game changer....
"Agentic AI" gets used to describe everything from a single chatbot with a plugin to a fully autonomous back office. This demo is representative of applications that I create at the day job: a permit review workflow modeled on how a city building department actually processes a construction permit, end to end. Don't get me...
I was interviewed by Bill Donofrio of the Chicago AI and Data group about my new project. https://youtu.be/Q3Wg6k93Ec0
How to Use AI to Respond to RFPs Let's face it: responding to RFPs can be a nightmare. Finding the right answers usually turns into a scramble that looks something like this: Check whether you've answered the question before. Find out you have answered it before, several times, in several different ways. Which answer is...
A few weeks ago, I hinted at a project that was nearing completion. Rather, I thought was nearing completion. I had found a t800 model online and decided that I would learn how to 3d print using that model. Start small? Nah, lets just jump in. As if that wasn't hard enough, I also decided...
Self-hosted · Personal project · 2026 Warhammer 40,000 Digital Tabletop While a parent's first choice is always going to be to have theirs children outside playing, I think a close second is going to be a board game. I get the struggle: when nintendo hit in the mid 80s, I no longer spent 16 hours...
