Category: Daily Blog
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📊 Why I Built My Own Analytics + Observability Stack (for $10/month)
In a world where data is gold, I wanted full ownership of mine. Not just to track visitor metrics, but to power intelligent systems, monitor my infrastructure, and do it securely, privately, and affordably. That’s why I built my own analytics pipeline — and it only costs me ~$10/month to run on a hardened VPS.… Read more
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[Daily:Ai-gen] Leveling Up Guardian: Integrating Real-World Data and Feedback Loops for AI-Powered Automation
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## Leveling Up Guardian: Integrating Real-World Data and Feedback Loops for AI-Powered Automation **Summary:** This week’s focus has been on making Guardian, my automation platform, even smarter and more responsive. I’ve been diving deep into integrating real-world data sources into the Smart Topic Discovery Pipeline, aiming to identify emerging trends *before* they become mainstream. In… Read more
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🧠 Tutorial: How Guardian Automatically Generates Blog Posts
Welcome to the Guardian blog generation tutorial. In this guide, we’ll walk through how Guardian uses LLMs, metadata, and automations to autonomously generate SEO-friendly blog posts from your real engineering activity. This system is ideal for: 🧩 System Architecture Overview Here’s what powers the blog generation: Layer Tool Purpose LLM Ollama (e.g. llama3.1) Generates content… Read more
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🔌 Connecting Supabase, Qdrant, and Ollama with Guardian
Now that you’ve got the stack installed and running locally, let’s connect the key services together so Guardian can start making use of them. This guide assumes: 🔹 Step 1: Connect to Supabase Inside your Guardian server (Hono/Express), you’ll want to connect directly to the Postgres DB exposed by Supabase. If you’re using Drizzle ORM… Read more
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👋 Hi, I’m Michael Woodward — Welcome to My Engineering Lab
I’m a full-stack software engineer and system architect who’s been building a new kind of development experience — one that blends autonomous agents, personal infrastructure, and developer empowerment through local-first AI systems. By day, I work professionally in enterprise-level application engineering. But by night (and most mornings), I’ve been engineering something far more personal:A sovereign,… Read more