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• An Agent Memory Glossary: Terms in Plain Language
  aag1091 Oct 19, 2026 5 min read

  The vocabulary around AI agent memory borrows from neuroscience, databases, search and cryptography all at once, which makes it easy to talk past each other. This is a working glossary — short, pla...

• Doing the Right Thing, Fast
  aag1091 Apr 25, 2026 3 min read

  We recently deprecated the initial version of Cisco Catalyst Cloud Monitoring. That means the code that drove it — onboarding flows, device-specific paths, integrations that only existed for those ...

• How daylog Keeps Your Diary Private (Even from Itself)
  aag1091 Apr 12, 2026 6 min read

  daylog is a voice diary. You open it, tap the mic, say what’s on your mind, and it saves. You can search your entries semantically — type “frustrated” and it surfaces the day you wrote “couldn’t ma...

• What Should You Actually Use to Build Your Next Hobby Project?
  aag1091 Apr 12, 2026 9 min read

  I recently built daylog — a personal diary app where you speak or type your thoughts and they get encrypted and stored privately, with AI transcription happening server-side using Whisper. The inte...

• Live Audio Transcription on a $0 Server Using Whisper
  aag1091 Apr 12, 2026 4 min read

  While building daylog — a private voice diary app — I needed a way to transcribe audio from a phone in near real-time, running entirely on my own server. No OpenAI API, no Google, no third-party se...

• Attractor: Building a Memory Engine Inspired by How the Brain Works
  aag1091 Apr 05, 2026 8 min read

  I’ve been thinking about memory — not human memory, but how machines store and retrieve it. Most systems today are either key-value stores (fast, exact, dumb) or vector databases (semantic, but sti...

• VaultMem Part 3 — Hiding PII from Your LLM Provider
  aag1091 Apr 01, 2026 5 min read

  Part 1 covered the core encryption model. Part 2 covered multi-modal ingestion and pluggable backends. This post covers v0.3.x — a new layer of privacy that addresses a problem encryption at rest c...

• VaultMem Part 2 — Multi-Modal Memory, Temporal Search, and Pluggable Backends
  aag1091 Mar 28, 2026 8 min read

  Part 1 covered why I built VaultMem, how the encryption works, and the core memory model. This post covers what came next in v0.2.0 and v0.2.1 — the parts that took the library from a solid foundat...

• Your AI Agent Shouldn't Be Able to Read Your Diary
  aag1091 Mar 28, 2026 3 min read

  Imagine you have a personal AI assistant. Over months, you tell it everything — your health worries, your relationship friction, your career anxieties, the habits you’re trying to break. It remembe...

• VaultMem — Building Encrypted Memory for AI Agents
  aag1091 Mar 21, 2026 8 min read

  While building Rena (code) — a voice AI health agent I submitted for the Google Gemini Live Agent Challenge — I needed persistent memory. Something that could build a user profile from conversation...

• Building Rena — An AI Health Companion with Gemini Live, Veo 2, and Google ADK
  aag1091 Mar 16, 2026 7 min read

  I built Rena for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge 2026 — a personal AI health companion where you never have to open a logging screen. You just talk.

• AI History Blog Generator
  aag1091 Mar 14, 2026 5 min read

  I was curious how AI had evolved over the years — not just the big headline moments but the smaller steps in between that actually moved things forward. I wanted something I could browse casually, ...

• Are These AI-Generated Tests Good?
  aag1091 Feb 28, 2026 3 min read

  I use AI to generate a lot of tests now. It saves time, but fast output can create false confidence.

• Building Your Website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
  aag1091 Feb 21, 2026 4 min read

  A static site on Jekyll + GitHub Pages is fast, free to host, and works great with an AI-assisted editor. This post assumes you’re using something like Cursor, Codex, or Copilot to generate most of...

• Codex Skills: Baking Your Workflow Into the Tool
  aag1091 Feb 17, 2026 7 min read

  A follow-up to I Fell in Love with Coding Again

• I Fell in Love with Coding Again
  aag1091 Feb 13, 2026 2 min read

  I didn’t expect to say this, but I fell in love with coding again.

• My SF Ruby 2025 Experience — Talks, Side Quests, Community & Inspiration
  aag1091 Nov 27, 2025 4 min read

  Last week, I got to check out SF Ruby 2025, and honestly, it was one of the most exciting conferences I’ve been to in ages. Ruby events always have this warm, community vibe, but this one truly sto...