Building systems that make life work better.

A post about autonomous AI agents hit the top of HN this morning. I actually run them. Here's what I've learned about where they work, where they fail, and the 6 rules I've settled on.

Moonshine AI posted their open-weights speech-to-text toolkit on Hacker News this morning. 252 points in 13 hours. The top-line claim: higher accuracy

r/selfhosted just banned AI-vibe-coded projects except on Fridays. After running 100+ containers in production and building two SaaS products with AI assistance, here's where I actually land.

Three crashes, two NaN catastrophes, and one breakthrough: fine-tuning a 33B model on Mac Studio to learn my coding patterns. Real configs, real mistakes, real lessons.

I replaced my OpenVPN server with a 7-node Tailscale mesh. Zero config, sub-50ms latency, and actual zero-trust security. Here's why mesh networking beats traditional VPNs.

I've been running a tech consultancy solo for a while. Recently I started bringing on my first team member. It's been equal parts exciting