I joined Josh Bressers on the Open Source Security podcast along with Rob Nalen from HeroDevs to talk about the Open Source Sustainability Initiative — a partnership between Commonhaus and HeroDevs to support end-of-life maintenance for projects like Hibernate, Jackson, and Quarkus.
Jennifer Reif and I gave a talk about going beyond the chatbot: building a solo tabletop RPG with an AI narrator, using Quarkus, LangChain4j, and Neo4j.
We built two apps with very different approaches to the same problem — one using upfront RAG ingestion of Spelljammer lore, the other incrementally indexing a player's own journal as they play Ironsworn. Same database, two flavors of retrieval, and a lot of lessons learned about keeping the LLM out of your state machine.
Turns your vault into an MCP server, so external LLM tools can read and write notes directly. HTTP transport works out of the box; a small bridge script adds stdio support for Claude Desktop.
Define decks of cards for activities, prompts, or anything else you want to rotate through, then embed or browse them right in your notes. Tag-based organization, with random or least-recently-seen selection.
Generate AI content right in your notes, using local LLMs (Ollama) or any OpenAI-compatible API. Custom prompts, content filters, and an API for wiring in your own extensions.
XDEV Software brought their Commit Cards to DevNexus 2025 — a deck of prompts covering coding practices and habits, one per card. Mine: "Minimize mutability." A solid choice for safer code.
Yolande Poirier and I got together for a Fika chat at DevNexus 2025, where we talked about why Commonhaus exists, how bylaws got written by arguing with an AI, and why I'm not interested in staff, marketing budgets, or events.
I talked with Tes Silverman on the RevWoman podcast about Red Hat, Java, and building out the Commonhaus Foundation — 13 projects in and still growing.
Streamlining Open Source Foundation Operations with Quarkus and GitHub Actions
A look at how Commonhaus runs on automation: Quarkus-based tooling and GitHub Actions doing the bureaucratic heavy lifting so a foundation with no paid staff can still function.
I sat down with Kate Holterhoff from RedMonk to talk about why we started the Commonhaus Foundation, and what it means to support mature open source projects like Jackson without piling on unnecessary bureaucracy.