Publications

Articles, talks, and webinars on observability, OpenTelemetry, and AIOps.

Notes

2026-01 Cobblehurst
On living in a 190-year-old Quaker meeting house, Tiffany glass, Scottish ironwork, and an AI owl in the window overlooking a graveyard.
2026-01 Adventures in Veo 3.1: Teaching AI to Remember What Characters Look Like
How do you make an AI video generator remember what a cartoon elk looks like across multiple scenes? Reference images, creative workarounds, and one expensive test run.
2025-12 Building Vibecaster: AI Social Media Automation in Public
I built an AI that posts to Twitter and LinkedIn for me. Here's the architecture, the interesting bits, and what I learned.
2025-12 Building AI-Native Session Replay with OpenTelemetry
I built the semantic instrumentation layer. Here's how logs + traces + frustration detection work together.
2025-12 Session Replay is a Band-Aid (And AI Can Do Better)
Session replay tools record everything but understand nothing. Here's an AI-native alternative using semantic events.
2025-12 LLMs Keep Hallucinating My URLs (So I Built a Fix)
Claude generated plausible-looking URLs that didn't exist. Here's the architectural problem and a hook-based solution.
2025-12 Why I Build Things
On strange careers, Quaker meeting houses, and the feeling of making something work.