Category: Guides
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🧪 CodeGen Microservice — AI-Powered Agentic Code Writing (TDD Style)
An agentic backend that generates code from tasks, creates tests, and opens GitHub PRs. This microservice lives deep in the Guardian system and is a cornerstone of how I build new software. 📚 Table of Contents 🧭 What Is It? The CodeGen microservice is a self-contained backend that enables autonomous agents to: It’s designed to… Read more
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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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🚀 Roadmap
Coming Soon! Read more
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🛣️ My Learning Journey into Software Engineering (and How You Can Follow It Too)
From Treehouse beginner in 2014 to building autonomous systems in 2025. Here’s how I taught myself web development, moved into professional engineering roles, and ultimately became an architect of intelligent automation systems — with all the tools, platforms, and real stories in between. 📚 The Early Days — HTML, CSS, and JS Basics (2014–2015) My… Read more
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🛣️ Route Design in Guardian: Telemetry-Ready, AI-Consumable, and Typed End-to-End
Guardian’s backend routes aren’t just functional — they’re designed for maximum clarity, traceability, and automation. Here’s an example: Let’s break this down: 🔧 createRoute: Structured Route Metadata Each route is wrapped with createRoute(), which describes: ✅ This creates a self-documenting, fully typed API — consumable by both humans and machines. 📘 .openapi: Automatic OpenAPI Spec… Read more
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🚀 Introducing Guardian OSS: A Minimal AI Automation Core
I’m excited to share the first open-source release of my local-first AI automation engine: Guardian OSS. This is the same minimal system that powers my pipelines for: Now it’s available for anyone to use, build on, or extend. 🧱 What’s Included in Guardian OSS Guardian OSS is a small but powerful local-first backend designed to… Read more
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🧠 The Guardian Tutorial Series
Everything You Need to Build a Self-Hosted AI Automation System Over the past year, I’ve been building a system that does something different. Not just a chatbot. Not just an agent that runs a few tasks. I’ve built a real AI-powered infrastructure layer — a system that thinks, remembers, reasons, and acts on my behalf… Read more
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📚 Understanding Embeddings and Vector Databases with Qdrant
🧠 What Are Embeddings? 📐 Understanding Vector Sizes 🧪 What Embedding Model Should You Use? Model Dimensions Best for Notes mxbai-embed-large 1024 General memory Great with LLMs text-embedding-3-small 1536 Short-form text OpenAI fallback all-MiniLM-L6-v2 384 Lightweight use Fast, decent 🔧 How to Create an Embedding + Insert Into Qdrant 🧷 Qdrant + Guardian 🛠 Common… Read more
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🧠 How I Use Local LLMs in Production
Why I brought AI home — and how it powers my personal automation stack. Introduction: Why Local? When people hear “LLMs in production,” they often think of cloud APIs like OpenAI or Anthropic. But for me, running local models is not a side experiment — it’s a core pillar of how I architect software. I’ve… Read more
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📓 Tutorial: Syncing Notion with Your AI-Powered Kanban Board
Welcome! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Notion with an intelligent task system powered by your own personal AI assistant. This setup allows you to: ✅ Manage tasks visually using a Kanban board✅ Automate task creation and updates using Notion + n8n✅ Enable AI agents to work alongside you in real time If… Read more