Self-hosted AI, DevOps, and automation from the trenches.

When your AI agent's brain is running on a machine whose terminals randomly die, you have a problem. A phased migration from ephemeral WSL2 to persistent Docker on Unraid — with hard rollback gates, a 1GB compressed backup, and a 72-hour soak test.

A dashboard that displays your actual body, your actual house, and your actual medications — pulled from real devices through APIs that fight back. Google Health API pagination, EG2 solar quirks, Discord medication logging, and the two-week 500 error.

My domain started as a joke — literally a Pet Cuddle-O-Tron. From broken DNS and redirect loops to HTTPS via CloudFront + ACM, including the Route53 alias gotcha that cost me an hour.

When 100+ entities hit unavailable and dozens of duplicates pile up, the WebSocket API becomes your scalpel. Bulk removal of 265 obsolete registry entries in one session.

Local speech-to-text with faster-whisper on a custom Docker image, running entirely on a home server. No cloud APIs, no data leaving the house, no recurring costs.

A three-tier memory system that turns an amnesiac agent into one with continuity across Discord, terminal, and cron jobs. Basic memory, fact store, and session search — each solving a different forgetting problem.

Profile isolation, fallback chain diversity, and when to use delegate_task vs. spawning a full hermes process. How I coordinate multiple AI agents through a shared kanban board.

An always-on agent with cron jobs, profiles, skills, and three tiers of memory. DevOps for your AI agent — because "it works when I chat with it" isn't production.