Marlon McKinnie's portfolio for platform engineering, applied AI systems, developer tooling, and product execution.https://marlonmckinnie.dev/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/keycontrol-was-a-portability-problem/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/keycontrol-was-a-portability-problem/How the KeyControl revamp turned a WebCentral add-on into a separate product repo with runtime targeting, SQL runners, release packaging, and workspace-backed QA.Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTKeyControlWebCentralArchibusproduct modernizationmanaged workspacesQAMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/real-archibus-dev-environment-not-just-a-container/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/real-archibus-dev-environment-not-just-a-container/Why Archibot's managed Archibus workspaces are more than devcontainers: the databases, runtime defaults, backups, IDE access, diagnostics, and support loops that make upgrade and UAT work repeatable.Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTArchibotArchibusmanaged workspacesWebCentraldeveloper environmentssupport operationsMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/archibot-has-to-pay-api-rates/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/archibot-has-to-pay-api-rates/What Archibot does for Archibus partners and customers, why AI-assisted upgrade and support work has real token and environment costs, and why API-rate products cannot promise subsidized unlimited usage.Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTArchibotArchibusAI economicstoken pricingmanaged workspacesupgrade supportMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/agent-swarms-still-obey-amdahls-law/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/agent-swarms-still-obey-amdahls-law/Agent swarms can buy breadth, context isolation, and independent checks, but they still pay the old costs of concurrent systems: coordination, shared state, merge conflicts, and serial validation.Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTAI agentsagent swarmsAmdahl's Lawsoftware engineeringCodexClaude CodeMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/what-ism-services-actually-does/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/what-ism-services-actually-does/A plain-language explanation of ISM Services, the high-context Archibus work behind it, and why Archibot grew out of repeated field problems instead of generic AI positioning.Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTISM ServicesArchibusArchibotfacilities management softwareworkspacesMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/i-missed-the-minio-turn/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/i-missed-the-minio-turn/How missing the MinIO maintenance-mode signal led to migrating ArchibotChat artifact storage to SeaweedFS before launch: the prelaunch deletion decision, a 34-minute GPT-5.5 Codex session, and why an S3-compatible adapter boundary kept the swap contained.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTMinIOSeaweedFSobject storageArchibotChatGitOpsGPT-5.5Marlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/the-token-free-lunch-is-ending/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/the-token-free-lunch-is-ending/Why the cheap subscription phase of frontier AI coding tools is ending: how coding agents broke the unit economics of flat-rate access, and what the move to token-based credits means for teams using Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Claude.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTAI economicscoding agentstoken pricingCopilotCodexopen-source modelsMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/making-the-cluster-less-dependent-on-me/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/making-the-cluster-less-dependent-on-me/Why the first serious GitOps pass was about team ownership, not tool adoption: making persistent Archibus dev and test environments visible enough for other people to operate.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTGitOpsArgoCDFluxKubernetesArchibusMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/first-cluster-mostly-bash/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/first-cluster-mostly-bash/How a hosting question, Authentik, and a pile of manual Kubernetes scripts became the first real lesson in self-hosted identity and operational ownership.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTKubernetesself-hostingAuthentikSAMLArchibusMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/before-archibot-had-memory/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/before-archibot-had-memory/The story of a Python scratchpad that became Archibot's first knowledge-system lessons: why reshaping source material matters more than picking the right vector store, and how scratch scripts turned into product judgment.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTArchibotRAGembeddingsPythonbenchagent loopsMarlon McKinniehttps://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/steampanno-trust/https://marlonmckinnie.dev/dispatches/steampanno-trust/A fork of SteamPanno to work out why a one-time poster tool should not be a downloadable executable, and what moving it to the web actually required.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTSteamPannotrust boundariesweb toolsexperimentsMarlon McKinnie