Marc Dougherty

Talking to Agents with a2a (as a human!)

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:49:38 -0700

Three flavors of Terraform iteration

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:01:58 -0700

Tip: renaming Go modules

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:35:22 -0700

I’ve been working on some experimental code lately, and part of the experiment has been where and how to host it. Because Go modules use the hosting location as the import path, this means i’ve been renaming my modules quite a bit.

Building a Write-Only Social Media Agent with Remote MCP

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Interacting with social media apps can tempt me into doomscrolling, costing me time and energy. Here’s how I built an agent to improve my posts and stay focused on content instead of scrolling for hours.

AI Agent anatomy -- my mental model

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI Agent Patterns

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:38:44 -0700

MCP Servers and OAuth Credentials

Wed, 20 May 2026 17:03:11 -0700

Managing prompts with a personal MCP server

Wed, 20 May 2026 14:34:09 -0700

Go dependencies and API diffs

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:24:51 -0800

AI Client libraries and their eccentricities

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AI Model APIs

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AI model serving layers

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Multi-cluster load balancing with Google Cloud

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:17:33 -0700

Building blocks of a Developer Platform

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:35:20 -0700

Terraform and GKE Annotations

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Architecting for Traffic Drains

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Testing changes to Renovate configs

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:46:15 -0700

Understanding GCP's Loadbalancer models

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:50:12 -0700

Day 2 Observability - calls to other services

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:33:29 -0700

More Github CLI Tips

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:51:47 -0800

Handy Yaml Tricks!

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Building Debian packages for my own use.

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vim and Arduino

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Bluetooth Part 1

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Thermal Receipt printer experiments

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Internet Volume Control

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Jam-O-Matic

Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Muni Displays

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Unicode (emoji) keyboard

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Big Red Button

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

First Post!

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000