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- Fitting out a home dockyard A start-to-finish walk through the setup I use to build things with an AI agent at home — the laptop you type on, an old laptop turned into an always-on server, where the projects and their state actually live, the plain-text control layer that keeps a dozen of them straight, and how it all joins into one private network once a project outgrows the house. Every term you might not know is a hover away. workstation · infrastructure · control · docker · ssh · nebula · tailscale · wsl · git
- A lifeboat for every hull Every project I run has a git remote, so the code survives a dead machine. The databases, uploaded files and secrets do not. This is the backup system I built into bosun-x in a day. bosun-x owns the config; a separate agent holds the credentials and does the dumps; the sensitive one is encrypted; and one screen shows whether every project has a current copy off the box. infrastructure · control · postgres · ssh · age · zstd
- What changed since you last played Steam already shows a combined news feed for the games you own, but you cannot search or filter it and the ordering barely makes sense. Here is the feed I built for Playtopia.com.au instead, with the same official posts sorted properly, made searchable and filterable, and everything published since you last played each game marked. infrastructure · nextjs · react · steam-api
- The chart room How I keep twenty-odd projects, five machines, and two AI agents in sync from a single dashboard built entirely out of plain Markdown and YAML files. The folder layout, why every status check is recomputed live instead of stored, and the plain-text handoff format that lets two agents continue each other's work. control · standards · docker · git · yaml · nextjs
- A key with one job A container needed to read three remote machines over SSH without holding a key that could also root them. The exact authorized_keys options that pin a key to one read-only command and a single permitted tunnel, what each one does, and the break-in tests that prove it holds. Copy it for anything that has to phone home from inside a container. infrastructure · openssh · docker
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