{"id":3677,"date":"2026-06-07T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:59:17","slug":"getting-ready-for-wwdc-and-building-my-homelab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/getting-ready-for-wwdc-and-building-my-homelab\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for WWDC And Building my HomeLab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been an eventful year, and WWDC is right around the corner (tomorrow as I write this). every year since 2018, I’ve taken an Education-Vacation to align with WWDC. In 2018 and 2019, I was lucky enough to actually get a ticket to go in person. I’ve tried the last few years, but no luck so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WWDC 2019 was amazing, and I had a great time meeting other developers and talking to Apple engineers. It was also the year that the first developer build bricked my MacBook Pro, and I had to schedule time to have the Apple team to re-image my machine as if the Beta came from the factory! What an experience that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well this year, I will be squirreled away at home for 8-12 hours a day, going thru videos and setting up my development devices to try and take advantage of the new APIs and features that Apple will be releasing tomorrow. I hope that they will make my Apps more competitive in the App Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the mean time, I have been doing a lot more work with AI models at my day job. I’ve been working for a year at Atlassian, as a Principal in their Advisory Innovation Lab. My job is to help build those solutions that our consulting teams will use with large enterprise customers. I am primarily focused on AI governance, which is a huge and important things for enterprises right now. And as such, I’ve been spending a lot of time doing some amazing things to help build out systems and processes for the safe, secure, and appropriate usage of AI tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This approach helped me focus on setting up my own private AI stack at home, and over the last few weeks, I’ve been building a set of processes so that I can ask questions about my code and gain insights to patterns that have been alluding me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, I have finally finished a web-based chat setup using Ollama, LM Studio, Open WebUI, Qdrant, and custom python code. I can now load up a chat with any of my major projects, it automatically indexes any code changes to update the RAG model I have setup, and I use qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct<\/code> with a large context window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The one challenge I am still working on is how I can take advantage of a great set of Swift skills developed by Paul Hudson over at hackingwithswift.com<\/a>. Once I can figure that part, I am hoping to add Apple’s latest Swift developer documentation to my RAG in order to ensure that I am always using the latest APIs in my discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like my good friend Andy Piper<\/a>, I don’t like the idea of my code or data being consumed by large enterprises for their advantage. If they want to pay for, I am sure we can come up with a financial arrangement, but until then, it is my code and my ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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