Hi, I’m Felix! I’ve spent the last 15 years building impactful software as a product leader. I’m currently doing my best to improve women’s health outcomes at Pomelo Care. This is my blog. It’s mostly nonsense! You can get in touch with me at [email protected].

John Muir Trail 2024

Some photos from the longest walk I’ve ever taken.

June 23, 2026

Making my door buzzer smart (ish)

Non-invasively integrating my Aiphone GH-1AD intercom into Home Assistant, read only, by hooking it up to an ESP32 and programming it with ESPHome.

May 1, 2025

Hosting my own feed to avoid doomscrolling

Replacing Reddit, Hacker News and global news scrolling with a self-hosted RSS setup using Miniflux and Tailscale, and then vibe-coding an RSS feed summarizer.

April 27, 2025

Vintage link collection: "Good reads for the aspiring PM"

Old wisdom that has somewhat stood the test of time, but also definitely was a function of a very specific era in tech

April 14, 2025
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Are AI tools turning us all into supervisors?

Exploring the difference between AI-powered augmentation and AI supervision, and how the future of knowledge work may involve less doing and more orchestrating.

April 11, 2025 · 5 min
An animated gif showing runningconverter.com converting running paces in real time

Mini project: Runningconverter.com

Building a running pace and race time converter in 2 hours, using Claude and Cloudflare.

April 4, 2025

Keeping tabs on Proxmox backups with Healthchecks.io

Monitoring scheduled Proxmox backup jobs, using the free Healthchecks.io service and custom hook scripts.

January 30, 2025
An animated gif showing a VM being created in Proxmox, and then that same host popping up in the Tailscale console

Pre-installing packages on fresh Proxmox VMs using cloud-init

Using custom cloud-init scripts to quickly pre-configure new Proxmox VMs.

January 27, 2025