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20 itemsI put fi-fhir and edilint through Mills for the first time. It merged work I did not write, then exposed a test gate passing on the wrong tree and fixed it against itself.
- The Agent Gets Read-Only Credentials: A Trust Ladder for AI in Regulated SystemsAug 29, 2026 · 4 min
A design pattern for supervised AI investigations: scoped read access, reviewed drafts, and failure tests before expanding permissions.
- The Factory Upgrades Its Own Foundation: An MCP Spec MarathonAug 29, 2026 · 6 min
MCP shipped a breaking specification revision. I wrote the gap analysis, filed it as factory backlog, and Mills started rebuilding the SDK it runs on.
- The File That Failed With Zero Errors: A Field Guide to Invisible EDI DefectsAug 14, 2026 · 5 min
Four defect classes that healthcare interchange parsers can accept silently, with synthetic samples, real linter output, and the pre-send gate that catches them.
- Twin Life on a Doubled Pool: One Day of Canary-Driven Inference EngineeringJul 26, 2026 · 12 min
A twin-lane canary promoted prefix caching, FP8 KV cache, and a larger context pool while catching five regressions before they reached the primary workload.
- Five Voices, 200K Tokens, One Consumer GPU: Giving Simulated Minds a Whole Life to RememberJul 24, 2026 · 13 min
How five simulated minds share one 24 GB Radeon, keep 200K-token life histories, reuse them through prefix caching, and compact old memories without erasing continuity.
- Finding the Real Context Ceiling: Needle-Benchmarking Forced RoPE ExtrapolationJun 25, 2026 · 5 min
Needle-retrieval tests on a 35B model passed near 63,000 prompt tokens and failed at longer contexts, even when vLLM loaded without a memory error.
- A One-Page AI Usage Policy That Actually WorksApr 20, 2026 · 4 min
A short, adoptable AI usage policy for engineering teams: what to put on the page, what to leave off, and why the policy matters less than the habits it makes explicit.
- The First 90 Days: Introducing AI-Assisted Dev to a New TeamApr 20, 2026 · 8 min
A 90-day rollout for AI-assisted development: start with bounded habits, measure the work, and standardize only after the team has evidence.
- Getting Gemma 4 Running on a Radeon 7900 XTX (with and without TurboQuant)Apr 4, 2026 · 8 min
Field notes from serving Gemma 4 E4B on Radeon: the stable TRITON path, an experimental TurboQuant long-context lane, and the GPTQ work still in progress.
- Build Your Own Legs Before the Crutches FailMar 9, 2026 · 13 min
How I use AI drafts to build engineering judgment through inspection, regression tests, code review, and repeatable release checks.
How I evolved a small AMD GPU cluster into a CRD-driven inference platform with an OpenAI-compatible boundary, evidence-based model promotion, and safe rollouts.
How fi-fhir separates feed-specific variance from parsing, semantic events, durable delivery, and workflow policy—and where the pre-1.0 platform still has work to do.
- Standing Up a GPU-Ready Private AI Platform (Harvester + K3s + Flux + GitLab)Dec 29, 2025 · 5 min
Field notes from building and operating a small private GPU platform with Harvester, K3s, and a GitLab -> Flux delivery loop.
- Optimizing Real-Time Kubernetes VisualizationsDec 25, 2025 · 8 min
What the current FlexDeck code does to keep Canvas 2D and Three.js cluster views responsive, and how its performance harness avoids unsupported frame-rate claims.
- A Production Playbook for Healthcare API IntegrationsDec 19, 2025 · 7 min
A practical operating model for healthcare integrations: explicit contracts, safe delivery, observable decisions, and support loops that improve the product.
- Healthcare Interoperability: From SMART Apps to TEFCA-Scale ExchangeDec 19, 2025 · 6 min
What changed since Meaningful Use, what SMART and TEFCA each solve, and why production interoperability still needs explicit contracts.
- Case Study: The Patient-Matching Parameter TrapDec 19, 2025 · 5 min
How one undocumented precedence rule turned a patient-matching threshold into an unsafe assumption—and how I design the contract now.
A de-identified field pattern for containing patient-match risk when filter and mode parameters interact in undocumented ways.
How FlexDeck combines Kubernetes, Flux, CI, observability, and model state without hiding freshness, access boundaries, or the limits of a homelab control surface.