This is the first post on patrickmclenithan.com. I’ve been meaning to start writing for a while, and now there’s a site to put it on.
What to expect
I build platforms and tooling for a living. Outside of work, I’m deep into AI infrastructure, self-hosting, and building developer tools that actually fit how I work. This blog is where I’ll share what I’m learning along the way.
Topics you’ll see here:
- AI platform engineering - Building with Claude Code SDK, running local models on DGX Spark, hybrid memory systems with Qdrant
- Infrastructure - Hetzner, Tailscale, Coolify, Docker, and the decisions behind choosing one tool over another
- Developer experience - What makes tools feel good to use, and what makes them feel like work
- Building in public - Honest takes on what’s working and what isn’t
Why now
I’ve spent months building Nockerl, a personal AI platform that handles everything from code generation to job research to Telegram-based task management. The architecture decisions, the failures, and the things that actually worked are worth documenting.
Writing forces clarity. If I can’t explain a decision in a blog post, I probably didn’t think it through well enough.
More soon.