agents

Posted by | July 6, 2026
I Made a Video Game (?!)

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...

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Posted by | July 6, 2026
LibreChat: Cowork for local LLMs

Most AI chat interfaces are basically fancy front‑ends slapped on top of an API call. They’re great for personal tinkering, but they fall apart the moment you try to scale...

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Posted by | June 23, 2026
AI Agents: From Foundations to Enterprise Systems

Still trying to get more experience using these things at scale.  Taking this course:  AI Agents: From Foundations to Enterprise Systems (https://www.udemy.com/course/ai-agents-from-foundations-to-enterprise-systems/) My notes

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Posted by | March 22, 2026
DEMO: From the Day Job, MCP for Business Use

As of this writing, I have over 100 MCP tools available for use for my home automation.   The beauty of MCP is that - once you have all of your...

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Posted by | February 21, 2026
Azure Databricks and Spark For Data Engineers

Mostly review, but there are a few sections on data engineering in this course that I am interested in. My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e32TWhOzEHuRiYz2ClIks5_PNeI9GKqOAGLV0JwnW6A/edit?usp=sharing Update: I learned a couple of techniques for batching...

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Posted by | January 3, 2026
Databricks – Master Azure Databricks for Data Engineers

I have a lot of experience with Fabric but not as much with its cousin Databricks. There is a ton of overlap between the two (Spark), but I wanted to...

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Posted by | November 6, 2025
Fast Agent + MCP

I am all-in with MCP, so I want to stay on top of the most recent trends when it comes to using this approach.  I recently became aware of the...

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Posted by | October 4, 2025
The Complete Agentic AI Engineering Course

I wanted to spend more time on the "big picture" instead of the micro.   After all, I've been building a ton of tools - it was time to spend some...

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Posted by | October 2, 2025
AI Agents With Flowise

I spent some time with flowise a year or two ago, and I (maybe unfairly) discounted it because it did not have the ability to run custom code.  N8N has...

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Posted by | September 26, 2025
Getting Started with DSPy

In the day job, I have seen a surprising uptick in the number of OCR-type projects that are coming to us.   I had been using document intelligence to mine the...

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