Category: Engineering

  • 🧠 Tutorial: How Guardian Automatically Generates Blog Posts

    🧠 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

  • 🧠 What Is Guardian?

    🧠 What Is Guardian?
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    Guardian is an AI-first automation framework built for developers who want full control over their own intelligent systems. Think of it as your own personal “DevOps Engineer meets Research Assistant meets Automation Toolkit.” It’s built with: Guardian was designed to run locally first with production-grade extensibility. 🚧 Clone the Starter Repo To get started: You’ll… Read more

  • 🔌 Connecting Supabase, Qdrant, and Ollama with Guardian

    🔌 Connecting Supabase, Qdrant, and Ollama with Guardian
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    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

  • 🧱 Getting Set Up: Tools I Use to Power My Stack

    🧱 Getting Set Up: Tools I Use to Power My Stack
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    If you’ve been following along with my blog or projects, you know I build AI-first automation systems and tooling around local-first, private infrastructure. To replicate any of the workflows I share, you’ll want to get your environment set up similarly. Absolutely — here’s a comprehensive, production-ready section you can drop right under that line: 🧰… Read more

  • 👋 Hi, I’m Michael Woodward — Welcome to My Engineering Lab

    👋 Hi, I’m Michael Woodward — Welcome to My Engineering Lab
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    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