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Learn how to make your AI agent completely offline. We walk through swapping the cloud model for a local Qwen 2.5 via Ollama, and building a local RAG knowledge base using SQLite and sqlite-rag to query Osquery schemas and packs.

Elevate your Google ADK agent with a custom, retro-style interface. This step-by-step guide shows you how to replace the standard Dev-UI using FastAPI and vanilla JavaScript, adding personality with a real-time streaming, AI-generated avatar.

Celebrating my first six months at Google! Reflecting on a whirlwind of 15 events across 5 countries, diving deep into the AI ecosystem, and achieving a major personal health milestone along the way.

This article is a guide to creating a diagnostic agent with the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It covers the development process and explains how to use Vertex AI RAG to improve the agent’s response quality.

Based on my keynote at Gophercon UK 2025, this article is an introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its core concepts, architecture, and the building blocks — Tools, Prompts, and Resources — used to create AI-enabled applications with Go.

An exploration into why time seems to speed up as we age, using a simple mathematical model to uncover a surprising truth about our perception of life.

The story of Speedgrapher, a custom MCP server for ‘vibe writing.’ It details the journey of turning a personal collection of prompts into a portable, AI-powered toolkit to automate and structure the creative process.

A step-by-step guide on how I built GoDoctor, an AI-powered Go development assistant, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Gemini CLI.

Learn how to customise the Gemini CLI to suit your coding style using GEMINI.md and custom system instructions.

A proposal for a modern developer workflow using AI tools and a simple prioritisation exercise.

A detailed account of my iterative process working with Jules, an AI coding assistant, to implement a new featured post section on my blog’s homepage.

How to design infrastructure using natural language on Google Cloud using Gemini Cloud Assist

This article explores the concepts of system instruction, session history and agent tools to create a smarter diagnostic assistant.

This article explores the communication model between the client code and the Gemini API using the Vertex AI SDK for Python

How to create a diagnostic agent that speaks natural language using Gemini and Vertex AI Agent Engine

A reflection on the future of the software engineering career.

The new autonomous coding agent that every developer needs to know.

An introduction to this blog’s purpose: sharing technical journeys in software development, cloud computing, and AI.