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Thoughts on self-hosted infrastructure, local AI, automation, and building things that respect your privacy.
Why Most Competitor Monitoring Programs Miss What Matters
Your competitors' adverse events are telling you something. Are you listening?
The PSUR Automation Playbook: What You Can (and Can't) Automate
Your next PSUR doesn't have to take 80 hours. Here's what to automate (and what not to).
MCP Servers: Teaching My AI Assistant to Talk to My Homelab
I built MCP servers that let Claude reach directly into my Paperless documents, trigger n8n workflows, and query my vector database. Here's why and how.
80 Workflows Later: How n8n Replaced My Entire SaaS Stack
Every SaaS tool is just a database, some logic, and a UI. Once I realized that, I started replacing them one by one with n8n workflows running on my own server.
SolScribe vs Cloud Transcription: Why Self-Hosted Wins
Cloud transcription services charge per minute, store your audio on their servers, and can change terms overnight. Here's how SolScribe delivers the same features on hardware you control.
How AI is Transforming Post-Market Surveillance for Medical Devices
AI and NLP are reshaping how medical device companies detect safety signals, classify adverse events, and meet regulatory obligations under FDA and EU MDR requirements.
The Digital Brain: A Self-Hosted Personal Knowledge Management System
I built a system where every note, document, bookmark, voice memo, and wiki page flows into a single AI-searchable knowledge base. Here's the architecture.
Why Video? The Case for Making Job Applications Harder
Why requiring more effort from applicants might be the most candidate-friendly thing a platform can do.
The Complete Guide to FDA's MAUDE Database: What Medical Device Teams Need to Know
Everything medical device professionals need to know about the FDA MAUDE database, from search strategies to overcoming its well-known limitations.
My Local LLM Stack: Running AI Without the Cloud
I run language models, speech-to-text, embeddings, vector search and RAG entirely on hardware I own. Here's the exact setup, what it costs and what it can do.
Building a 24-Service Homelab on a $400 NAS
How I replaced $300/month in cloud subscriptions with a TerraMaster F2-424 running Docker. The process taught me more than any SaaS product ever will.
FDA AEMS Migration: What Medical Device Companies Need to Prepare For
The FDA is consolidating its adverse event databases into AEMS. Here is what medical device companies need to know about the timeline, changes, and preparation steps.
I'm Building the Anti-AI Hiring Platform
Why I'm building a hiring platform with zero AI-generated content in 2026.
The Cover Letter Is Dead. Here's What Should Replace It.
How the hiring process started rewarding the people who try the least — and what I'm building to fix it.
Introducing DeviceWatch: AI-Powered FDA MAUDE Surveillance for Medical Device Teams
Automated adverse event monitoring, AI summarization, and compliance-ready reports — so your regulatory team can stop searching and start analyzing.