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Automation

Jul 13, 2026
July 13 - putting my notes under version control without breaking the sync that copies them everywhere
My entire knowledge base had no undo, and adding one turned out to be a real distributed-systems puzzle because the same files live on four machines at once.
Jul 7, 2026
July 7 - a knowledge base that rebuilds and reorganizes itself every night
I write a lot of scattered notes across a lot of projects, and instead of ever organizing them by hand, I built a pipeline that rebuilds and reorganizes the whole thing every night while I sleep.
Jul 6, 2026
July 6 - running my own models so the routine work costs nothing
A lot of the small jobs I was paying a hosted model to do did not need a frontier model at all, so I started running open-weight models on my own GPU box and let the routine work run for free.
Jul 5, 2026
July 5 - handing a job to whichever machine should run it, then walking away
I stopped doing my machines' work at the keyboard and built a way to hand a task to whichever machine should run it, let it run on its own, and pick up the result later.
Jul 2, 2026
July 2 - every machine can now reach every other, with no passwords and no key juggling
Turned the fleet into a full mesh where every machine can reach every other one directly, passwordless, without hand-managed keys, laying the groundwork for running work anywhere in the fleet.