Caffeine, Code, & Chaos

Systems engineer. Robotics geek. Maker of shiny things. Part race car, part glitter. Powered by caffeine and curiosity.

Building an Off-Grid Camera Relay System for a Rural Road

A practical build guide for a solar-powered roadside camera relay using Ubiquiti gear, proper solar components, and a Raspberry Pi monitoring stack publishing to Home Assistant via MQTT.

The Three Pillars of Metrics That Matter

Forget ‘developer productivity.’ Forget ROI theater. Every metric worth tracking answers one of three simple questions: Are we shipping faster? Safer? Cheaper? That’s it. That’s the whole framework.

Auto-Approving safe-settings PRs with OPA and Rego

Use OPA and Rego to validate safe-settings YAML configurations in PRs and automatically approve changes that conform to your organization’s standards.

Identifying and Cleaning Up Stale GitHub Repos at Scale

A practical guide to auditing thousands of GitHub repositories, identifying what’s truly stale, and safely archiving or cleaning up the ones you no longer need.

The Mana of Corporate Politics

Corporate politics explained through a gaming lens. Mana, spells, and why not all actions cost the same amount of political capital.