
Principal Engineer at AWS in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺. I write up what actually works: fine-tuning local models, building simple things on AWS that scale well, and mucking around with my homelab.
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Local models in mid-2026: the engineering that closed the gap
How open weights got close enough to run at home in 2026, the engineering that got them there, and why a memory crunch made the box pricier. read more →
Herding parallel agents on a remote box with herdr
herdr is an agent-aware tmux replacement that surfaces which parallel Claude session needs you. My remote-box setup and install notes. read more →
Building lgtmaybe: a PR reviewer for any model
How I built lgtmaybe, a provider-agnostic PR reviewer with keyless cloud auth, and the fiddly security and concurrency problems that were fun to solve. read more →
Identifiers within AWS CDK
My 2021 explainer on construct IDs and the unique (logical) IDs CDK generates from them, kept as it was originally published - with a 2026 appendix on what's changed in CDK v2 and the renaming footgun to watch for. read more →
Reference and import existing assets into AWS CDK
A 2021 walkthrough of importing existing CloudFormation and referencing live AWS resources in CDK with Python, plus a 2026 appendix on what changed in CDK v2. read more →