A closed laptop in a dark room with a small mini PC glowing quietly on a shelf behind it

Ghost Protocol: Running AI Coding Agents 24/7 on an Always-On Homelab Dev Machine

Why I moved AI coding agents off my laptop and onto an always-on homelab dev machine: unattended agent pipelines, a three-layer Docker devcontainer, and remote access from any device via Claude Code and agent-deck.

September 15, 2026 · 9 min
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The Home Assistant Supremacy: Two Houses, Two Servers, One Command

How I built a Claude Code skill to control two Home Assistant instances from the terminal -- no browser switching, natural language in, correct hass-cli command out.

March 23, 2026 · 6 min
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The Developer Ultimatum: My Old Workflow Died and I Had to Build a New One

My AI-assisted development workflow: specs-first, red gate acceptance tests, autonomous agent loops, and how to stay in control when the agent writes faster than you review.

February 8, 2026 · 12 min