technology
Connecting Splunk to Claude — Token Auth, Self-Signed Certs, and the Desktop Gap
22 Mar 2026
How to wire up the Splunk MCP server to both Claude Code and Claude Desktop in a homelab using token-based auth and mcp-remote as a TLS proxy.
Lead
From breadboards to boardrooms.
Tech evangelist. Tech leader. Lead is the professional thread: how ideas become useful, how teams learn together, and how leadership helps people grow beyond the work directly in front of them.
How I think about leadership
I like to discover many ways to approach a challenge, then make the work understandable enough that others can contribute. The outcome matters, but so does the capability a team builds along the way.
Make the work understandable enough that others can contribute.
Measure success by capability built, not only by the immediate outcome.
Help people grow beyond the task directly in front of them.
Proof
Leadership through the work.
Examples from the build archive—how I reason through tools, systems, and decisions.
technology
Improving the Claude New Post Skill with a Dev Branch Workflow
1 Mar 2026
How I updated my Claude Code skill for creating Hugo blog posts to commit to a dev branch first, validate the live URL, and confirm before merging to main.
technology
homeaiops: Building a Production-Grade Homelab Platform
1 Mar 2026
An overview of the homeaiops project — its goals, architecture, three-domain structure, and where things stand today.