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Welcome to the Blog

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After years of keeping my notes locked in Obsidian, I am finally opening the vault. Here is why I am writing, what to expect, and how this space works.

I have 690 clippings, 23 Maps of Content, and hundreds of daily notes sitting in an Obsidian vault.

For years, I've treated writing as a private exercise. A way to untangle a messy architecture problem, distill a book, or capture a passing insight before it evaporated. But a private vault is a closed loop. It clarifies thought, but it doesn't test it.

I built this blog to change that.

The Pipeline

This isn't a traditional CMS, and I don't intend to write traditional SEO-optimized tutorials.

Instead, I've built an automated pipeline using Claude Code and a custom agent skill (draft-blog-post). When I want to publish, I point the agent at a cluster of notes in my Obsidian vault. It reads them, synthesizes the core insight, respects my privacy gates, applies employer redactions, and spits out a ready-to-review Markdown draft right into this repository.

I review it, tweak the voice, and run make publish.

What to Expect

The goal is two to four posts a month. The content will be a direct reflection of what I am actively reading, building, or untangling at any given moment:

  • Book Notes: Long-form reflections on technical books, drawn from my reading highlights and marginalia.
  • Architectural Patterns: Synthesizing concepts like Modular Monoliths, Domain-Driven Design, and decoupling.
  • Tooling & AI: How I am integrating agentic workflows and LLMs into daily development.
  • Monthly Rollups: Quick digests of the most interesting articles, talks, and papers I consumed that month.

It will be pragmatic, specific, and hopefully useful.

Welcome. Let's see what survives the migration from the vault to the web.

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