Thinking out loud
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3 Nov 2026
Have you ever spoken to a T.Rex about data strategy? I have, and here's your chance. Travis Kane affectionately known to many as T.Rex will be chomping his way through data silos m
3 Nov 2026
Read below if you are attending #CiscoLiveAPJC, and if you aren't - still read below. Join me in the World of Solutions on Monday afternoon/evening for a for a chit chat on Agentic
3 Oct 2026
A spelling mistake was causing my agent not to use the right tools... My agentic loop was using a static keyword list, so when asking it to list recent 'noteables' that didn't matc
1 Oct 2026
I needed a break from all the AI. Nothing like dusting off the crimper, punch down tool and toner. You can take the engineer out of the network, but not the network out of the engi
23 Sept 2026
Forgive me... #flybecoding , vibe-coding while flying? ... I'll see myself out. Remote access to my private agent stack keeps things secure but productive. I get to choose what run
19 Sept 2026
Sniffing AI thats what network folks do... and agent observability gives you that aha! moment. Galileo is part wireshark for AI agents? (yes/no?) Over the past couple of days I've
16 Sept 2026
Building things with AI or building AI can seem a little like you've got a blindfold on. Cisco Splunk Galileo Agent Observability for the win! I connected Galileo to my home agent
13 Sept 2026
695m tokens bought me time to half paint a room. #builder #cursor #claude #agenticops Builders' update — glam-cp, 11–13 Sep AI drafted YAML. A builder still authored the plane. Two
7 Sept 2026
Struggling with token usage for your data queries? Here's an example of Splunk AI Toolkit using my local GPU resources for query analysis and observability of my GPU resources. Nee
4 Sept 2026
🤖 "So You Want to Talk About AI?" Before we dive into strategy (assuming the business why has been done), I've been starting with two questions: 𝟭. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻
2 Sept 2026
Two key things to explore if you a ingesting Cisco-generated data into Splunk and keen to optimise. Integrated Enterprise Value (IEV) is a Splunk benefit for eligible Cisco-generat
30 Aug 2026
Spent the weekend exploring and redefining my operating system workflow - worth having a test drive of Omarchy https://omarchy.org/ - not for everyone but I'm loving it. #omarchy I
29 Aug 2026
Off my learners now :) O11y cert up next 💪
27 Aug 2026
I've always loved Lego, understanding how each building block comes together and builds something interesting and fun. This first principles approach is exactly how I've approach b
26 Aug 2026
I built a homelab agent control plane. Most of it is running. The product is not a chatbot with root. The product is the contracts: who may write what, where truth lives, which mod
18 Aug 2026
This evening I am on a walk at the kids’ soccer practice, writing this from my phone with the same agent stack we've been building on. Not a laptop. Not an SSH session I left open.
17 Aug 2026
Every AI agent in my home lab used to share one login. Network, security, monitoring, self-hosting — five different jobs, one shared key, full access to everything, all the time. T
29 June 2026
I gave each of my AI agents a different brain this week. Then I watched one nearly fall asleep mid-task. In my homelab I run a small fleet of agents through one gateway. Until now
29 June 2026
Most "AI memory" problems aren't storage problems. They're filing problems. I've been building a multi-agent setup at home where several AI harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, cron jobs
27 June 2026
Recently I wrote about my homelab "substrate" — a board of AI agents running on my own hardware, and why the system around the models matters more than any single model. I mentione
27 June 2026
A while back I posted something deliberately abstract: the idea of an "agentic substrate", a foundation my homelab could run future ideas on. This is that idea taking shape. The vi
9 June 2026
📣 Splunk community roundup — what shipped in the last month. If you build on Splunk (or help customers who do), here's the latest from Product News & Announcements: 🤖 AI & Develo
6 June 2026
Powering along with my #SplunkCertified! journey.