Local-First Deploy: Retiring CodeBuild for a One-Minute Ship

The bryanchasko.com site is done with managed CI. GitHub Actions, then self-hosted Woodpecker, then AWS CodeBuild — all three put a five-minute remote round-trip between a change and seeing it live. The replacement is one local script that ships in under a minute.

September 6, 2026 · 6 min · 1246 words · Bryan Chasko

From Hallucinated APIs to Shippable Banners: Adobe Express MCP Lab + Cloud Del Norte Builder Banner

A lab that stops LLMs hallucinating Adobe Express add-on APIs — 5 agents, grounded docs + types, and a real 1440×400 AWS Builder Center banner for Cloud Del Norte built via the MCP, from challenge to shippable PNG.

August 31, 2026 · 7 min · 1443 words · Bryan Chasko

Muse Glimmer on HeraldStack: Local 30B Agents, One GPU, No Cloud

How we hooked Meta’s Muse Glimmer 30B into a local agent fleet on a single RX 6700 XT — on-demand llama.cpp, Valkey gpu_lock, Ollama, ComfyUI, and a Firecracker microVM that delegates from Spark to Glimmer.

August 31, 2026 · 7 min · 1295 words · Bryan Chasko

Moodle Course Builder: CI Pipeline, Nova Act Regression, and Kiro Orchestration

A Chrome MV3 extension that builds entire Moodle courses from CSV files — tested end-to-end by Amazon Nova Act driving a real browser through the full upload-confirm-build flow, all orchestrated by Kiro CLI agents.

August 17, 2026 · 8 min · 1521 words · Bryan Chasko

Self-Hosted CI with Woodpecker: The HeraldStack Pipeline

Running 35 repos through a self-hosted Woodpecker CI instance on a single AMD workstation — zero vendor lock-in, full control, no per-minute billing.

July 19, 2026 · 4 min · 830 words · Bryan Chasko