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The personal ramblings of Brian Exelbierd and not his employers.
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If You’re Wearing More Than One Hat, Something’s Probably Wrong
https://bexelbie.com/2025/11/20/if-you-are-wearing-more-than-one-hat.html
Published: November 20, 2025 15:00
Navigating competing roles in open source - why clarity about which hat you're wearing matters.
Managing a manual Alexa Home Assistant Skill via the Web UI
https://bexelbie.com/2025/11/12/alexa-manual-home-assistant.html
Published: November 12, 2025 12:40
Skip hand-editing YAML entity lists by tagging Home Assistant devices with labels and auto-generating the Alexa exposure list via an automation.
The Practitioner’s Keynote: A Look Behind the Curtain
https://bexelbie.com/2025/11/04/openalt-keynote.html
Published: November 4, 2025 12:50
A look at the messy reality of delivering a keynote as a practitioner, without the support teams that polish executive presentations.
Project Membership
https://bexelbie.com/2025/10/06/project-membership.html
Published: October 6, 2025 06:25
posted on duckalignment.academy
Rituals
https://bexelbie.com/2025/10/02/rituals.html
Published: October 2, 2025 12:38
A personal reflection on the small, meaningful rituals of daily life, centered on the morning walk to school with my first-grade daughter.
Day 5: Microsoft Hackathon — Model Grading, Parameter Friction, and Next Questions
https://bexelbie.com/2025/09/19/Microsoft-hackathon-5.html
Published: September 19, 2025 17:15
Pipeline runs, thread summaries graded, and model friction surfaced. Next test: can insights drive action?
Day 4: Microsoft Hackathon — Threading Failure, Recursion Repair, and Model Limits
https://bexelbie.com/2025/09/19/Microsoft-hackathon-4.html
Published: September 18, 2025 22:50
Debugged a broken email threading approach, replaced it with a simple recursive pass, and resumed grading LLM-generated summaries.
Day 3: Microsoft Hackathon — Thread Heuristics, Importance Signals, and Agent Editing
https://bexelbie.com/2025/09/17/Microsoft-hackathon-3.html
Published: September 17, 2025 18:00
Filtered 424 threads to ~250 candidates, added package/entity tagging, and built an agent writing editing workflow.
The Couple Across the Way
https://bexelbie.com/2025/09/17/the-couple-across-the-way.html
Published: September 17, 2025 11:50
A whimsical moment observing a retired couple's daily ritual and a surprise silly hat.
Day 2: Microsoft Hackathon — Distractions, Brainstorming, and Infrastructure
https://bexelbie.com/2025/09/16/Microsoft-hackathon-2.html
Published: September 16, 2025 19:50
Distractions derailed metadata work; brainstormed importance heuristics and moved the MVP to SQLite for scale.