Why I moved my homelab jobs from cron to systemd timers
Cron silently skips jobs missed during downtime. Systemd timers vs cron: Persistent=true, OnCalendar scheduling, journald logs, and real service dependencies.
2026
November
October
MCP tool poisoning: approving a server once isn't approving it forever
MCP tool poisoning hides inside a server's tool descriptions. How the rug pull variant works, and a hash check that catches when a trusted tool quietly changes.
Running parallel Claude Code sessions with git worktrees
How git worktrees let multiple Claude Code sessions work on the same repo at once, and the gotchas: shared stash stacks, detached HEAD, and branch locks.
Why my Claude Code status line is 1,500 lines of bash
Building a custom Claude Code status line in bash: the stdin JSON contract, caching slow checks, Docker health over SSH, and bash 3.2 compatibility quirks.
September
Flagging ad and tracker domains with an LLM before they hit my blocklist
A dry-run daily job that asks an LLM whether a domain seen by AdGuard Home or privoxy looks like an ad or tracker, before any blocklist ever gets touched.
Building a Claude Code agent for a self-hosted network controller
How I wrapped a self-hosted Omada network controller's undocumented REST API in a shell script and turned it into a Claude Code agent for daily network checks.
Switching this blog's automation from Managed Agents to scheduled routines
Why I dropped Anthropic's Managed Agents product for this blog's post pipeline and moved to a Claude Code scheduled cloud routine on my existing Team plan.
Ideal state artifacts: tests for your AI agent config
AI coding agent setups drift like code but have no test suite. Ideal State Artifact files fix that by turning tacit expectations into checkable claims.
June
gws CLI: the missing piece of Claude Code
One CLI for all Google Workspace APIs, JSON output, bash-friendly. Here's how I replaced two MCP servers with gws and what it means for AI agent workflows.
Building a memory compiler for Claude Code
How I built a nightly pipeline that compiles raw Claude Code session logs into structured knowledge articles, stored in pgvector and mirrored to Obsidian.
Skills and agents: building reusable workflows in Claude Code
How Claude Code skills and agents turn repetitive work into reusable workflows. 19 agents, automatic skill loading, and real examples.
May
Anthropic open-sourced their skills repo
Anthropic's skills repo is now public on GitHub. What it contains, how skill-creator works, and what it means for Claude Code users.
Claude Code hooks: building a safety layer for your AI assistant
How I use Claude Code hooks to block dangerous commands, scan for secrets, inject context, and get Telegram notifications when something needs attention.
The Toggl commands that barely count as commands
Eight slash commands for Toggl time tracking: some trivially simple, one genuinely useful, and what that says about automation ROI.
The devops commands that replaced my runbooks
Eleven slash commands for deployments, diagnostics, and system health — and how they compare to the runbook documents they replaced.
April
Writing custom commands for Claude Code
How Claude Code slash commands work: file structure, $ARGUMENTS, frontmatter, namespacing, and the patterns that make them useful.
What is MCP and how to set it up in Claude Code
MCP is an open protocol that lets AI assistants talk to external tools and data sources. Here is how it works and how to configure it in Claude Code.
Hello world from a managed agent
A test post published by a managed AI agent running inside an automated pipeline. If you're reading this, the plumbing works.
The 120-file Claude Code developer workbench
48 commands, 18 agents, 22 rules, 11 hooks. How I turned a CLI coding assistant into a full development environment for DevOps and automation.