Last month I had a lot of fun writing an LLM proxy for collecting telemetry in Langfuse. I played around with writing a Text-to-SQL agent that uses that observability. This is the first post in a series about how I am using observability to improve an AI tool. www.grokkist.com/blog/sql-age...

A LangGraph SQL agent with per-call observability

Building a text-to-SQL agent on top of the canonical LangGraph tutorials, then routing every model call through my own OTel-emitting proxy so I can see what it actually does

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I think we can blame anything bad that happens in soccer on Trump, and he should henceforth be enemy #1 to USMNT. (This is not a rational thought).

Wild that Germany got a goal called back for running a "pick play" in the Patriots' home stadium.

Philadelphia treating the World Cup visitors to lightning in commemoration of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment.

My Astro blog now publishes site.standard.* records to my PDS, pulls Bluesky replies as comments at build time, and uses a script to auto-link each blog post to its Bluesky thread. www.grokkist.com/blog/astro-a...

Publishing the Blog to the ATProto Ecosystem with site.standard.document

How I integrated my Astro static blog with the Standard.site lexicon to publish records to ATProto with Bluesky replies as comments and Bluesky post auto-discovery

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cdk-dms-replication v0.2.0 introduces a fluent builder for DMS-to-DynamoDB object mappings, adding compile-time type safety and synth-time validation. Now you can catch mistakes before you start your DMS run. www.grokkist.com/blog/cdk-dms...

I wrote an LLM gateway -- yallmap -- that makes it easy to track usage data and translate Claude Code requests for local Ollama models. Please take a look, try it yourself, and give feedback or contributions on Github. www.grokkist.com/blog/yallmap/

When I was AWS, I migrated an Aurora MySQL database to DynamoDB with no downtime using DMS. There was no AWS CDK Construct then, so I wrote one recently and made it open source. In this post I use it to do a similar migration. www.grokkist.com/blog/migrate...

My brother had a lot of questions about my last post about DynamoDB. My instinct was to tell him to get lost, but instead I answered his questions with this post (www.grokkist.com/blog/single-...). I may or may not have still told him to get lost.

Amazon presents single table design as the preferred way to model relational data in DynamoDB. However, as I discuss in my blog post (www.grokkist.com/blog/single-...), single table design is not a default decision but the result of an analysis of your data needs.

I recently blogged (www.grokkist.com/blog/publish...) about deploying my first app to my K3S cluster using my internal Gitea Actions CI/CD platform on that cluster. Platform engineering is a bit outside of my usual work so I enjoyed learning the pieces that fit together to make modern software.

In my newest blog post I improve my knowledge and skills at Continuous Delivery by making my K3S cluster run Github Action-like pipelines. It took a bit more work than I expected but I learned a lot and the cluster is in better shape now than it was before. www.grokkist.com/blog/publish...

One of my big goals with my local K3S instance is to set up continuous delivery, so I can apply the same best practices in my home lab that I apply in my everyday work. To that end, I added a Git Server to my local K3S. Read more on my blog. www.grokkist.com/blog/setting...

One of those Vols pep band tuba players has a Helleberg mouthpiece. Good call, you can really blast with one of those.

Berlin is somehow here.

New blog post, where I do a significantly better job of using Claude Code to help me write a web service. www.grokkist.com/blog/claude-...

Feels like a record of a specific moment in time.

My newest blog post, on using Claude Code badly: www.grokkist.com/blog/claude-...

I wrote about Kubernetes again. This time just a bit about how to enable the Gateway Controller for the Traefik reverse proxy that comes with K3S. www.grokkist.com/blog/enablin...

The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

I made a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster and blogged about it. Not a novel concept but maybe the first one including a Headlamp deployment. www.grokkist.com/blog/my-own-...

@robgg.bsky.social We lived in Germany for 2 years and this is our souvenir.

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region. 🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

How indigenous practices can help protect forests

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

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I wrote about the process of setting up my own blog. Not exciting, but I learned a lot. www.grokkist.com/blog/how-to-...

Got to get her to stop reading, so she can go to school.

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I can't be the only person who, when I'm making a commit I'm later going to squash in rebase, uses a dumb comment like 'Hey'.